The Feminine Heart of Love | Free Radical Podcast #66 | Bhakti Lalita Devi 3/18/26

About this episode

In this episode, Bhakti Lalita Devi shares her journey in bhakti-yoga and the feminine heart of devotion.

In this episode of the Free Radical Podcast, we sit in sacred conversation with Bhakti Lalita Devi (Goh Diwajnavi) — teacher, author, and pilgrim of the heart within the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage. A devoted disciple of Srila Bhaktisundar Govinda Maharaj, the Acharya of Sri Caitanya Sarasvat Math, she spent nearly two decades in India in intimate service to her Gurudeva, acting as his personal correspondent secretary and absorbing the subtle currents of devotion that flowed through his presence. In 1996, in a gesture both tender and revolutionary, her guru offered her the sacred saffron brahmachari cloth — a first for a woman in their lineage — and bestowed upon her the name Bhakti Lalita Devi, sealing her life in dedication to divine love. Now residing in Chiang Mai, Thailand, she moves between continents as a quiet emissary of grace — encouraging hearts, steadying faith, and sharing the inner culture of bhakti-yoga as a living, breathing path of transformation. In this episode, we explore the feminine heart of bhakti — its softness and strength, its surrender and sovereignty. Bhakti Lalita Devi speaks of her journey with her Gurudeva, of life in sacred community, of love as…

People in this episode

Host: Swami Padmanabha

Guest: Bhakti Lalita Devi

Topics covered

• bhakti
• devotion
• spirituality
• feminine heart
• sacred community
• transformation

Keywords

• bhakti
• devotion
• spirituality
• feminine heart
• sacred community
• transformation
• Gaudiya Vaishnava
• inner culture
• meditation
• conversation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sri Caitanya Sarasvat Math

Places: Chiang Mai, Thailand

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