Barkha Madan.
There was a time when a name was making a name in the light of the ramp, the brightness of the cameras and a name in the Bollywood crowd. This name was Barkha Madan. A woman who had stardom dreams in her eyes and confidence so much that she stood in the competition like Miss India 1994 and raised her head among the most beautiful women in the country. It was not a minor thing to share the stage with veterans like Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai, but what is the most extraordinary, where the rest of the people went on to climb the stairs of fame and success, while Barkha got down from the same ladder and turned to another direction, which was the path of meditation, cultivation and spiritual peace.
From model to salvation
Barkha started her career with the glare of glamor. As a model, she was successful as a beauty queen. She got the title of Miss Tourism India in Miss India competition and also secured third place in Malaysia. It could have started the golden start of anyone’s career and was the same for them, but who knew that this fast start, was writing the role of a quiet end? Leaving the adorned life of the film screen, he decided to change his life. Barkha Madan starred in a hit film like ‘Khiladi Ka Khiladi’ in 1996, where he shared the screen with stars like Akshay Kumar, Rekha and Raveena Tandon.
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Work on TV screen
Then in 2003, his role in Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Bhoot’, ‘Manjit Khosla’ adopted him in a memorable character, the soul that scared the audience and also forced him to think. Even on the small screen, he got his acting iron. He established himself as a great artist in popular serials like ‘Nyaya’, ‘1857 Kranti’ (where she played the strong character of Rani Laxmibai) and ‘Saat Phere – Saloni Ka Safar’.
But something was incomplete …
This life was as perfect from outside, the same was full of restlessness from inside. Barkha was struggling with a question – is this life? There was a deep silence between the brightness of the cameras, the echo of applause and the showers of praise that only she could hear. The same question took them to the search for the soul. Barkha was affected by the teachings of the Dalai Lama for a long time. She was not just reading, she was changing inside and then in 2012 she showed what millions of people think, but cannot do it. He said goodbye to the world of glamor and decided to become a Buddhist monk.
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Changed name
He also gave up his name with his new life. Now she is no longer a Barkha, she became Gyalaten Samten. It was not just a change of a name, it was the rebirth of the entire existence. Now she lives as a monk in peace -filled areas like Himachal and Ladakh. Neither makeup, no spotlight, no script. Just dialogue with truth and soul. The woman who was once in the world of beauty pageants, who saw the layers of Bollywood is now engrossed in meditation, service and practice as a Buddhist monk. He is a vibrant example of simplicity and peace. The example of this is that the real beauty is hidden in the inner peace and not in the outer aura.
