The Devatas with Nina Rao

Growing up Nina was surrounded by the visual forms of the divine beings as well hearing the names of these divine beings. These divine beings are devatas and there are almost an infinite number of devatas in the Indian tradition. We first hear of the devatas in the vedas where every mantra invokes a specific devata by the sacred sound of the Name. The devatas are forms of cosmic forces that make up our envirnoment, our body, and our minds.

Chanting these mantra aligns us with them, generating harmony all around. As time when on, the spiritual text expanded into the puranas including the great sacred tales of Ramayana, Mahabharata, Devi Bhagavatam, Shiv Puranas and so many more. The visual images and legendary stories come from here and are the fabric of everyday life in India and many parts of south Asia.

Nina will share her journey with these devatas and her time with her guru as a manifestion on this plane of these devatas.