Zubin Mathai may never be heard on tape in Finding Home, but his quiet work ensures everything you see and hear runs flawlessly. When I first reached out to him about being “interviewed” for this series, his reply was so humble, I knew it belonged at the very top:

“I’m just the tech glue that makes things work after they create the content and come up with a wishlist of things.”

What followed was a thoughtful glimpse into how deeply he values both the work itself and the silence at the heart of it.

Why has working on this project mattered to you personally?

Like all the work I do for the Gangaji Foundation, it thrills me to use my technical skills to help bring Gangaji's content to the world, making it easily accessible on the website or elsewhere.

When whispers of this project first began, I knew it would mean a lot of work for the staff and Hillary—fixing audio, getting copyrights taken care of, creating trailers, planning the rollout, and designing how Finding Home would appear in the member library. I was happy to polish my corner of that work, making sure everything ran smoothly on the website.

For this particular series, listening to the content is a joy—sitting in mind-stilled silence, hearing the unfolding of Gangaji's life. Through every anecdote, one can imagine what it must have been like to experience it, and appreciate how a life can be so deeply altered and yet still flow so naturally.

How has episode 4 impacted you in particular?

I always love hearing the story of how Gangaji first met Papaji. What tremendous grace and fortune for everything to fall into place the way it did, leading to that beautiful meeting in Lucknow and Haridwar.

I especially liked when Gangaji described that first meeting and how it now carries over into everyone she meets:

“I’m welcoming my self, as I was welcomed by my self. And really, that’s it. Are you willing to receive the welcome from your own self?”

After hearing that, it became a fresh, unforced reminder to open again the naturally closing mind. When I go on hikes in nature, over time, I forget to appreciate what’s there, and my focus falls back into wandering thoughts. But for days after hearing those words, I found myself welcoming my self everywhere—in the trees, sky, dust, heat, and even those same annoying, wandering thoughts.

Did any of the epiphanies and realizations spark any of your own while working on the project?

I would say that instead of epiphanies, I receive a barrage of gentle reminders to return to what’s always here as I listen to the episodes. Just like the example I gave before—seeing silence and recognizing self again in nature—that same reaction flows into more areas of my day-to-day life.

And this always happens when I listen to Gangaji, whether she’s speaking in videos, live meetings, or this wonderful interview format in Finding Home. How she explains things—the words she chooses, the tone of her voice—it’s a siren call back to silence (without the danger), a sweet song to remind me for the millionth time what is always and forever here, and to effortlessly see myself again in everything and everyone around.

Zubin may describe himself as “just the tech glue,” but it’s clear his contribution is infused with the same welcome he hears in Gangaji’s words. His work not only supports the series, it quietly embodies its spirit, ensuring that the invitation to find home reaches all of us, seamlessly.

Bio: Zubin lives in the Bay Area in Northern California. His life went from Montreal, Canada, where he grew up, through nearly forty years working as a software engineer, first in the video game industry, to Silicon Valley startups, to freelancing and consulting work, before finally joining the Gangaji Foundation in 2020.