~by Rukmini Walker This is my vyasa puja offering to Srila Prabhupada for this year 2022. **To listen to Rukmini’s audio recitation of this letter, please click here or on the video image below*** My Eternal Father and Master, Srila Prabhupada, nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhutale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine […]
A very Happy Balaram Jayanti, or Appearance Day of Lord Balaram to you all! Here is a beautiful poem celebrating the holy Appearance Day of Lord Balaram on the full moon day, just like His effulgent moonlike complexion, this year on August 11. All the best, Rukmini Walker
In our July Urban Devi Sanga, Jahnava devi dasi presented on the “Seven Principles of Making Relationships Thrive”. Drawing from bhakti wisdom and secular knowledge and research, you will learn the simple and practical application of seven key principles to help you grow, improve and establish healthy loving relationships. Please click here or on the video […]
~by Denise Mihalik —– Namaste Sound Friends! I’m excited to be finishing my first book—and about learning to be a writer. It’s a completely different experience from all that I’ve already done. It’s immersive, vulnerable, fun and maddening. When my eyes, body and brain can take no more, I journey to the pond a few […]
Rukmini Poddar continues to share with us her series of inspirational monthly pieces, this time with “July Feelings“. May it be and inspiration for your own reflections this month. —- All the best Rukmini Walker
In this special talk hosted by ISKCON of DC (Potomac) Temple, Rukmini Walker Devi Dasi discusses the nuances of freedom and bravery in the Bhakti path. To listen, please click on this link or on the video image below.
In our June Urban Devi Sanga, Citi Sakti Devi Dasi presented on the topic: Transcendental Transformation. Spirituality offers an attractive solution to life’s problems. However, the very same problems that lead us to divinity, are often where our ability to connect more deeply can be discovered. Unfortunately, many of us may try to bypass our […]
In this talk, Rukmini Walker devi dasi shares with us the importance of inclusiveness in Bhakti. May it inspire you in your own practices.
~by Ananda Vrindavan devi Dasi ————————————— He caught my eye As I drove by then turned around To stop and see him Large and brown and moving slowly He quickly drew in his elderly head And eyed me for my next move Which of course was nothing But to marvel at his body And to […]
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.