by Chaitanya Caran Prabhu Draupadi’s admirable character is revealed in the most humiliating incident of her life: her attempted disrobing by the wicked Dushasana. Though victimized in body, she refuses to be victimized in heart. Her exceptional character transforms the lowest point in her life into the highest point. The incident in which she is […]
It is well known that the Lord’s name is the most compassionate – even more merciful than the Lord´s form. Here is an ancient prayer to Lord Rama’s name, which I found in one of my many notebooks where I had written down numerous gems of inspiration. Lord Rama built a long bridge across the ocean, […]
-by Ananda Vrindavan Devi Dasi ————— Today A single rose Peers out at me From the glass jar Reminding me of the day You were born so many years Before we even imagined this time When a rose would be offered back to us In gratitude for bringing you up in a world of Service […]
-by Pranada Comtois The youth clad in hiking boots and jeans hoisted his back pack over his shoulder and hurried out in front of me. Swinging my head to the side to avoid the brusque movement of his pack, I slowed my step to give way to his determination. Perhaps he knew what to expect: […]
Below is an offering from Denise Mihalik from Sound Awakenings as an inspiration for your Day! ~ All the best, Rukmini As much as I encourage and teach others to breathe, I often forget to do this myself when doing yard work. I get into a zone and just go, go, go until I can go no […]
My sister, Susan, is a Five Elements acupuncturist. She and her artist husband, George, live in Central Coastal Maine. Living, as they do, so close to Nature and her changing seasons is always an example to me, as I live my life as a much more urban person. Susan’s meditations on the changing seasons have […]
Meet Divya Alter, the chef/author of “What to Eat for How You Feel: The New Ayurvedic Kitchen” cookbook. We visit her restaurant Divya’s Kitchen in NYC’s East Village to learn the basics of how to eat for how you feel. Click here or on the video below.
Please find below a lecture I gave on the Srimad Bhagavatam (SB 9.16.25-28) in the Sri Dham Mayapur in India this past week. Please click here to view the lecture or on the arrow in the picture below. All the best, Rukmini Walker
Presented at the Global Peace Initiative for Women Varanasi, India, March 7-9, 2019 ———————— At the center of all existence, is a love affair between the divine masculine and the divine feminine, according the the wisdom books of Bhakti. And in order to approach this divine mystery, we must first seek the grace of the […]
March 21st in the holy Appearance Day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, He is considered to be a combined form of the divine feminine, Sri Radha, and the divine masculine, Sri Krsna. Here is a backstory of how that came to be: One day, Krsna sat beside Radhika in the forest […]
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.