Qualla: Devipuram https://qualla.com/devipuram en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/5/j/devipuram-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Devipuram https://qualla.com/devipuram Devipuram: Introduction https://qualla.com/devipuram/ Photo credit Kashyap Kondamudi, CC BY-SA 3.0. A nuclear physicist walks away from a twenty-three-year career at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He travels to a hillock near Visakhapatnam, meditates, and begins to dig. From the earth he unearths a Sri Chakra Maha Meru made of panchaloha -- a five-metal alloy -- at a spot where, he later learns, a massive fire ritual was performed more than two hundred and fifty years earlier. This is the founding story of Devipuram, a temple complex that its creator, Dr. N. Prahalada Sastry, built not from architectural blueprints but from meditative visions of the goddess Sahasrakshi, "she who has infinite eyes."

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/5/j/devipuram-wp/tg5j-devipuram-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Devipuram: A Temple You Walk Into Like a Prayer https://qualla.com/devipuram/ Photo credit Devi bhakta at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The Sahasrakshi Meru Temple is unlike any other Hindu temple in India. Measuring 108 feet square at its base and rising 54 feet high, the three-story structure is built in the shape of a Sri Meru Yantra -- the three-dimensional projection of the Sri Chakra, the sacred geometric d...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/5/j/devipuram-wp/tg5j-devipuram-a-temple-you-walk-into-like-a-prayer.mp3 0:06 2 full Devipuram: The Physicist and the Goddess https://qualla.com/devipuram/ Photo credit Rahul, CC BY 3.0. Sastry -- known to his followers as Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati, or simply Guruji -- was born in 1934 and spent more than two decades in nuclear physics before turning to spiritual life. In 1983, during a Devi Yajna ceremony, members of the Putrevu family approached him with ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/5/j/devipuram-wp/tg5j-devipuram-the-physicist-and-the-goddess.mp3 0:06 3 full Devipuram: Where Caste and Gender Fall Away https://qualla.com/devipuram/ Photo credit Nikhilb239, CC BY-SA 4.0. Devipuram breaks with convention in a way that draws both admiration and controversy. Any devotee, regardless of caste, creed, or gender, may perform puja to the Devi directly -- no priestly intermediary required. This open-access approach may echo the practices of the Kamakhya t...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/g/5/j/devipuram-wp/tg5j-devipuram-where-caste-and-gender-fall-away.mp3 0:06 4 full Devipuram: Beyond the Sanctum https://qualla.com/devipuram/ Photo credit Devi bhakta, Public domain. Devipuram has grown beyond a place of worship into something closer to a social enterprise. Sastry founded the Sri Vidya Trust, a nonprofit organization headquartered at the complex, which runs developmental programs in non-formal education, women's empowerment, and low-cost hous...

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