Cafe Kuti
Café Kuti is an area of the site where anyone who knew Swamiji and Angelika can share personal memories, stories, writings, photos, poetry, art. Anything relevant to time spent with Swamiji and Angelika.
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Vignettes from Germany
In late 2023 I met Jürgen and Beate while staying in Kaivalyadhama. We spent many beautiful hours sharing our stories about Swami Maheshananda, each of us felt as if we were catching up with family. What follows are some of the memories they shared with me. Written in German, the English translation is included after […]
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Café Kuti – A Place to Share and Remember
Cafe Kuti is an area of the site where anyone who knew Swamiji and Angelika can share memories, stories, photos, poetry or art. In this interview Helen and David speak about why this section of the site is important, and the origin of the name. H: What is the point of Cafe Kuti? D: From […]
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Sharing a meal and meeting family.
For Swamiji sharing food, meeting people’s family and seeing their way of life was always a large part of why he travelled. It gave him much food for thought and on one of his European trips he presented a workshop about this very topic (it can be found in the archives here). This gallery of […]
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A last visit.
“Connect with the guiding principle in a proper way, because it always knows if it is good, or not good. Why depend on the external when we have the inner source? Realise this through yoga practice and through your daily life activity.” These were the last sentences Swamiji ever said to me as we were […]
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2012 – Ben’s First Visit to Kaivalyadhama
The feeling of returning to family was strong every time we arrived at the kuti. On this visit our son Ben was 18 months old, and on his first journey outside Australia. To help him understand who Swamiji and Angelika were, we prepared him to meet “Grandpa Swamiji” and “Grandma Angelika”. He quickly made himself […]
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Beacon
A Eulogy for Swami Maheshananda. By Chetan Rajpurohit The sun’s rays shine through the leaves of the trees that encompass the final resting place of his predecessor and his predecessor’s predecessor. The rays draw an imagery of leaves as shadows onto the bright marble floor, beneath which lay the remains of the two masters. A […]