Twelve out of 20 sadhus gave me interviews in the English language, sadhus spoke in both English and Hindi, and the rest spoke in pure Hindi To interview the sadhus and conduct these interviews, I traveled to India to a Guru’s ashram in Western India Fortunately, I did not travel much within India to seek the sadhus, because I found six amazing sadhus visiting the first ashram where I stayed I interviewed sadhus in the ashram itself, all in the Hindi language I conducted nine face-to-face interviews, including three in-person meetings in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA and the rest in India I conducted other interviews via a video or a phone call, and I recorded the interviews using a digital voice recorder As for the use of technology, every study participant had a cell phone, including the wandering monks They eagerly shared their numbers with me for any future queries The sadhus who lived in their ashrams were accessible via phones and emails Following the interviews, as mentioned earlier in the data collection subsection, I extensively followed up with many sadhus for multiple reasons, sometimes to better understand a concept related to happiness or to ask the meaning of a specific Sanskrit term they used during the interview In a few other cases, the follow-up queries resulted in a full-length second or even third phone interview In local Indian culture, people often refer to a male sadhu as a sannyasi (Sanskrit: renunciate or monk) Also, the word Swami (Sanskrit: a spiritual master) is a title used for a male sadhu If a sadhu is a female, then people would likely use the title Swamini (Sanskrit: a female spiritual master), but it is not a hard and fast rule to use the title Swamini for a female sadhu Even the title Swami is used for the female monks because, 79