Background
Her father was president, and later Chief Executive Officer, of the Manischewitz food company, founded by his grandfather.
educator Chief Executive Officer
Her father was president, and later Chief Executive Officer, of the Manischewitz food company, founded by his grandfather.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She and Praytatosa, (Howard Best), married in 1973. In 1996 Urmila and Pratyatosa entered the renounced asrama of vanaprastha. Foreign eight years she was the education columnist for Back to Godhead magazine, where she is an associate editors
Urmila Devi Dasi has a Master"s of School Administration and a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She travels widely throughout the world teaching about spiritual life and education. In September 2010, she published her three-volume set Doctor Best Learn To Read, a program consisting of a set of children"s reading books, teacher guides, and student activity books to take a young child from learning the English alphabet to fluent reading.
The reading books are all stories about Krishna or related to Vaisnava/Vedic culture. Aimed at ages 3–8, The Talking Books have the text in English and can be listened to in the following languages, page by page: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, Persian, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Croatian, Finnish, Portuguese, Italian, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch.
She has also published a book on mantra meditation, The Great Mantra for Mystic Meditation.
