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neo-sannyasin (disciple) of the enlightened mystic Osho since January 27,1999, Ma Deva Dhiraja*, also known as Lyudmila or Luda, is Russian, but was born in the Ukraine (then a part of the Soviet Union) on November 19, 1973. Her mother was a medical doctor from Moscow, and her father, of Tartar stock, a veterinarian and jeweler from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg),  Russia when it was the Soviet Union.  As an infant, Dhiraja moved to Tajikistan just east of Afghanistan, bordering China. Tajikistan was a part of the Soviet Union.  

She spent her early childhood living within the indigenous culture of Tajikistan, a Moslem country, influenced by neighboring China and Afghanistan.  Dhiraja attributes much of her spiritual foundations to this period of her life in this distant culture.

As the rumblings of war were heard in the distant air in this Soviet republic, heralding the end of Soviet domination, in 1983 Dhiraja left the desert mountains of Tajikistan for St. Petersburg, Russia.  She was 10 years old.

Pulled from her Tajik culture, her childhood from the age of 10 was reclusive and highly empathic. She studied at the famed Art Institute of St. Petersburg, Russia, and today enjoys intuitive art, and loves to create collages, working with all art media in all forms. Dhiraja sees art in life's simplest things...from a crumbled leaf to a street artifact, and often uses what she discovers, in what she says is "from life's storage bin," in her art. 

Dhiraja is not of this world, and is often able to predict situations before they occur. As an empath, she often travels into other dimensions of consciousness. A natural healer, her touch itself seems to create an altered state and healing in those she touches. Dhiraja  embodies a spiritual philosophy of existence and enlightenment.

Comes to America...

Dhiraja met Virato on September 18, 2000 in St. Petersburg, Russia while he was conducting psycho-spiritual consciousness events there.  A story book romance incurred, and soon they became close friends and lovers. They were together again for several months in 2001, both in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

After two years (because the US Dept. of Homeland Security  lost her paperwork),  Dhiraja arrived in America, on January 31, 2002, and was greeted with a magnificent "spiritual" marriage wedding party with her beloved Virato in Decatur, Georgia, at the palatial home of a long-time friend of Virato.

On February 14, 2002 (Valentine's Day) she legally married Virato (barefoot in sandals in a Chattanooga, Tennessee court house in the presence of a Southern judge) Another spiritual marriage ceremony followed at the Dharmadip Osho Center, Lake Lure, North Carolina, USA  on February 23, 2002.

When they are not traveling, they are in  Asheville, NC. where you may see them in the West Asheville area or walking downtown.

Dhiraja has a part-time job, and in her free time does her artwork, writing and gardening and studying herbs, and offering her Intuitive Touch. She was  the host of her own Russian language radio program in Asheville on WPVM-FM  presenting "new paradigm" consciousness  topics, and was frequently heard on 880AM  with her beloved husband on VIRATO LIVE!. To better grasp the English language, Dhiraja studied acting with Peter Carver, attending classes in the Drama Dept. at AB Tech (Asheville-Buncombe Country Technical Institute).

Dhiraja's cherished time, she says, is being in nature with the grass under her bare feet, and also sharing her heart and consciousness with everyone and.....simply being...both alone, and in Virato's company...as he does hers. 

They bathe in love...

Spiritual Intoxication Happens Around Dhiraja

Dhiraja follows no specific ritual other than experiencing existence as fully as possible in this dimension, while connected to all.