Distinguished religious instructor and Upanishadic scholar Raseshwari Devi Ji obtained the Seva Samman Award on twenty third Feb on the 2026 Spiritual Conclave Odisha in recognition of her a few years of service in direction of offering religious schooling and bringing about elevated social consciousness. The award was introduced to her by Surama Padhy, Hon’ble Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly within the firm of many different distinguished people from the religious, public, and cultural sectors.
The Seva Samman Award acknowledges Raseshwari Devi Ji’s ongoing dedication to selling the Upanishadic message to all folks in varied sectors by means of public talks, meditation applications, and different value-based programmes to assist them expertise their on a regular basis lives with spirituality on the forefront. The conclave’s organisers famous that she had elevated consciousness associated to ethical behaviour, self-discipline, and inside improvement for every of the individuals by means of this outreach.
Hosting the occasion had been MBC TV and BS TV with many eminent friends from politics and tradition in Odisha. Pabitra Sounta, Mangu Khilla, and Golaka Mohapatra had been just some of them. Senior leaders similar to Arabinda Dhali and Priyadarshi Mishra had been additionally in attendance. Two Padma awardees, Sudarshan Sahoo and Adwaita Gadanayak, signify cultural concord by their presence on the conclave.
As a faithful disciple of Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj, Raseshwari Devi Ji started her religious path after ending her increased research within the topics of arithmetic and English. At the age of twenty-two, on October 15, 1988, she took sannyas (a vow of renouncing materials possessions) and devoted her life to spreading Shri Krishna Bhakti (the follow of affection for God by means of devotion) and the philosophy of the Upanishads (historic Indian scriptures that discover the final word nature of actuality). Rasedhwari Devi Ji has carried out over 300 religious applications in 140 cities and 11 states all through the years; however has taken a extra lively position in Odisha, the place she has arrange 21 meditation centres and religious improvement centres underneath her steerage.
In current years, she has prolonged her religious outreach by means of varied digital media channels and has supplied religious studying alternatives to a broader viewers all through the coastal and semi-urban areas of Odisha. Her new outreach applications for kids and youth, similar to Bal Sanskar Shivir (kids’s ethical schooling camps) and Yuva Utthan Shivir (youth improvement camps), proceed to interact kids and youth by means of applications aimed toward ethical schooling, cultural consciousness, and private improvement. In December, she additionally had the dignity of assembly with Droupadi Murmu, the Honourable President of India, to have a good time her Sanyas Diwas (the anniversary of somebody taking the vow of sannyas).
Receiving the Seva Samman Award at Spiritual Conclave Odisha 2026 marks a breakthrough for Rasedhwari Devi Ji’s contribution to public and religious causes. Observers of this award view it as proof of her contribution to the development of religious schooling and community-based initiatives within the altering panorama of India’s social improvement.
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