Devi Mandir

Temple of Divine Mother

2018 Shivaratri Schedule

Tuesday February 13th 3:00 pm PST, Homa begins: 1) 10 malas of “Om Namah Shivaya” 2) 11 Rudrashthadhyayi recitations 3) Continuous Mahamrityunjaya Mantra until the end of Shivaratri 5:00 pm […]

Eleven Reasons Why You Won’t Want to Miss Shivaratri

Eleven Reasons Why You Won’t Want to Miss Shivaratri: Lord Shiva is the Consciousness of Infinite Goodness. Infinite Goodness.  Shree Maa and Swamiji will guide us into Shiva Loka — it’s totally Cosmic! […]

Shri Ratanti Kali

  Shri Ratanti Kalika Puja is a very special night devoted to the worship of the Divine Mother Goddess, Shri Kali Maa.   Goddess Kali takes away the darkness of […]

Bangalore

Bangalore, known locally as Bangaluru, would be the final destination of Shree Maa and Swamiji’s Yatra (pilgrimage) around India before returning to the US. While in Bangalore we stayed at […]

Mysore is no Eye Sore

From the beautiful Nilgiri hills we traveled to Mysore, known locally as Mysuru. There we stayed at Shiva Shailam, a temple complex constructed by Rishi and Narendra, who are father […]

Shiva Temple on the Mountain

Swamiji asked me, Cidatmananda, to write about the beautiful experience of walking through a South Indian subtropical forest to a small Shiva temple on top of a hill. This quaint […]

Adventures in Ooty

From Mumbai we came to Coimbatore, in the state of Tamil Nadu in the far south of India. Coimbatore would be a temporary stopping point for us on our way […]

Return to Mumbai

We would be in Mumbai for a few days before traveling to Coimbatore, located in the state of Tamil Nadu, in the far south of India. When we were previously […]

Nashik

When our stay in Sahapur was complete, we made our way to Nashik. It would again be a short stay, arriving around noon and departing the next day.

Shahapur

From Assam, we returned to New Delhi. We arrived in the night, and had a flight to Mumbai in the morning. We were now leaving from North India and going […]