Tapasya Bhaskar was born August 8, 1976 in India’s region of Kashmir, to IPS Officer O. P. Bhaskar and wife. She attended the Presentation Convent High School, Srinagar, and later graduated from Malaviya Reginal Engineering College, Jaipur, India. In 2003 Tapasya moved to the United States where she received a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington. She was part of the Dallas collective for several years, during which time she got married in a Sahaj wedding to Mandar Tonpe from Maharashtra. She subsequently moved to India to join her husband, and she worked for IBM.
Tapasya passed away in 2016. She will always be remembered as a very sweet, humble, dedicated Sahaja Yogini with a huge heart and tremendous love for Shri Mataji and for her Sahaja brothers and sisters.