Oct. 15th, 2018 I am in South Florida today after completing a weekend of workshops at Casa Mannabliss in Del Ray Beach. Each morning this past weekend, I would go to watch the sunrise on the beach. Each sunrise a light show play of pink sun rays transforming moment to moment the cloud banks sitting […]
About a month ago, I posted a blog called The Thread of Life, about a chain of islands off the coast of Maine. I’d been in Maine visiting my sister, Susan and her family there. Susan’s husband, my brother-in-law, George has the intuitions of a native about the coast of Maine, having spent his childhoods […]
Yesterday was Radhastami, the holy Appearance Day of Sri Radha, the original feminine goddess- you might say, the “better half”, of Lord Sri Krishna, the original Supreme masculine Person. Today I’m writing to you from the beautiful and magnificent city of St. Petersburg in Russia. The Russians say that the people here are more cultured […]
by Ananda Vrindavan Devi Dasi ——– In autumn you are the teachers Of how to grow old and shine You stand tall and blast Your colors against the blue sky Your leaves are fearless in their Journey of change, smiling upon us all As they fall and kiss the earth Your soul emerges, vulnerable As […]
I am in Moscow right now. Over the last few days here we celebrated Sri Krsna Janmastami, or the Appearance Day of Lord Sri Krishna. The following day, which is called the Nandotsava—the day when Krsna’s appearance festival is celebrated—is the Appearance Day of my guru, Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Prabhupada spent five days in […]
For the last few days my husband and I have been visiting my sister Susan and her husband, George, who live in Damariscotta, Maine. There is a reverence for nature here as they live very close to the earth and the seasons. There’s water in every direction: the ocean, Great Salt Bay, many ponds, or […]
Sacinandana Swami is one of my favorite teachers. He is specially focused on deepening the practice of chanting the Holy Name. Although his is not the voice of a woman, he is one of those men who has a highly evolved spiritually feminine side, being a devout worshiper of the divine feminine, Sri Radha. ————————————— […]
by Susan Weiser Mason (Rukmini Walker’s sister) Here in Damariscotta Mills the Summer is full on. Flowers are blooming profusely and veggies are exploding out of what once were neat rows. Life is abundant, and a bit over the top! This is the season when I walk to the swimming hole to get refreshed and […]
I’ve been thinking that trying to walk a spiritual path is like taking on a kind of conscious exile from the world. I may be caring very much, engaging with compassion in my work and with the world, but yet, with a kind of dispassion also. A kind of cloister wall, a firewall against innumerable […]
by Ananda Vrindavan Devi Dasi ——– There was a storm just now the thunder was galloping across the grey sky and I sat outside and loved the wildness of it all and thought, maybe that’s what the mantra does to my soul crashes in and makes me full of life and energy and maybe that’s […]
Photograph by Tatiana Kiseleva
Urban Devi is a community of women who gather to explore and excavate their identities as urban women living the spiritual life. An urban devi is in the world, but not of the world. She acts in the world to uplift, and shift the consciousness of those around her to a higher place of Bhakti, or love in action.