Ma Devaki
“When He touched me, the ‘I’ disappeared.
Since then, I live in His fragrance.
Every breath is His Name, every heartbeat is His Will.”
– Ma Devaki
John David invites Ma Devaki
Over the last years John David has invited Ma Devaki several times for Satsangs and an Interview for Blueprints for Awakening. Her heartfelt and profoundly devotional character has touched us deeply. We are happy to announce that the recordings have now been edited and are freely available on Youtube. We hope you find great inspiration in them!
Ma Devaki was in close personal service to Bhagwan Yogi Ramsuratkumar for 7 years from 1993 until His Mahasamadhi in February 2001. Ma Devaki has been serving and staying in the Tiruvannamalai Ashram ever since, continuing Her service for His Divine work.
2020 Satsang: Ma Devaki's Life with Yogi Ramsuratkumar
In this personal and revelatory Satsang, Ma Devaki shares the story of how a chance encounter with Yogi Ramsuratkumar in 1986 became the Turning Point of her Life. From her roots in academic physics to a path of Deep Surrender and Divine Service, she tells vivid stories of his unpredictable Grace, Love, Mystical Humor, and the Silent Power of Yogi that reshaped her Inner World.
2022 Satsang: Selfless Service
In this Satsang, Ma Devaki speaks about selfless service as the most accessible and complete form of Spiritual Practice. Drawing from her life with Yogi Ramsuratkumar, she unfolds how everyday actions, when offered in the right spirit, can reveal the Divine in everything and lead us to True Devotion and finally to Self-realisation.
2023 Satsang: Chanting the Divine Name
In this Satsang, Ma Devaki explores how Nama Chanting — the repetition of the Divine Name — purifies the mind from deep-seated tendencies and emotional poisons, evokes the divine and connects us to the impersonal, all knowing witness consciousness. Ma Devaki recommends Chanting as a Sadhana because it is easy and can be carried out during the day and one witnesses immediate effects from doing so. In her Ashram the Nama “Yogi Ramsuratkumar, Yogi Ramsuratkumar, Yogi Ramsuratkumar, Jaya Guru Raya” is being chanted 24 hours a day.
2024 Interview: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
In this interview for the Book Project “Blueprints for Awakening”, Ma Devaki unfolds her understanding on the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi based on the 12 questions John David presented to her. Her responses are infused with stories and teaching anecdotes she experienced with her own master Yogi Ramsuratkumar.
2025 Satsang: Miracles and Divine Grace
In this Satsang, Ma Devaki shares remarkable stories of miracles that unfolded through Nama-Chanting and the living presence of her master, Yogi Ramsuratkumar. Her words reveal his ongoing power to bless, protect, and transform those who call out to him. She encourages us to chant his name in all phases of life to invite his grace.
Biography
Ma Devaki (born January 4, 1952, in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu) was a brilliant physicist and university lecturer who left behind a respected academic life to become the devoted attendant of her spiritual Master, Yogi Ramsuratkumar. After meeting him in 1986 during a pilgrimage to Tiruvannamalai, her life underwent a radical transformation. For seven years, she traveled regularly to see him, enduring any hardship for even a glimpse of his form.
In 1993, she resigned from her post as a senior lecturer in physics and moved permanently to Tiruvannamalai to serve him full-time. Her total surrender, unwavering devotion, and self-effacing service led Yogi Ramsuratkumar to declare her his “Eternal Slave.” He also called her “Ma,” honoring her as the embodiment of the divine feminine.
She cared for him with constant attention until his Mahasamadhi in 2001, and continues to live in his Ashram, upholding a life of spiritual practice, humility, and love. Her quiet presence and radiant devotion are a living example of total surrender and divine servitude.
“He burned all that I was.
And what remains is only a flame—
burning with His Name.”
– Ma Devaki
“Sometimes I sit in silence for hours.
Not because I have nothing to say,
But because I feel Him speaking inside my silence.”
– Ma Devaki
