Taos News: Points East

June 1st 2022 | Published by the Taos News 

One Woman's Journey into the Mystic

"Within a few days of her death, I was in India cremating my mother‘s body on the ghats in Jageshwar Dham next to 2000-year-old Shiva temples. What a powerful and visceral experience, and leave it to my mother to send us all on one more great adventure…"

Travel. Legacy. Dharma. Loss.

Krystina Siebenaler, a longtime Taos resident and award winning filmmaker, is also known locally for her weekly radio show on KNCE, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," lost her mother, who was at the time living in India, late last year. Yvette "Ram Rani” Rosser,  had devoted her life to India and to her beloved Maharaj-ji. A scholar with a PhD in Sanskrit, Rosser was one of the few devotees of Neem Karoli Baba who had actually spent time with the Guru.

While she was in India retrieving her mother’s remains and settling her affairs, Siebenaler came up with the idea to make a documentary about her life. Entitled “मेरी रामरानी,” in Hindi, as she so loved the language, translates to My RamRani.

“She was my mother and she belongs to Neem Karoli Baba, as well, but really, she belongs to all of us whose lives she touched..."

There are many films about Neem Karoli Baba devotees, but none about a woman. And not very many that can describe such a legacy of striving for Hinduism and India to be better understood in the West and around the rest of the world.”