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Sadhaks Dilip Kamat (Virginia) and Sunil Padture (California), have uploaded photos of PP Shri Kakamaharaj's visit to their area.

Virginia Photos

California Photos

Video - Los Altos Library discourse

Sadhak Neha Vishwarupe has posted a 5-minute video recording of the discourse given by PP Shri Narayankaka at Los Altos Library in California.

Please click here to view the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-_9AGpblfs

PP Shri Kakamaharaj's Austin Visit

Here's the information about PP Shri Kakamaharaj's Austin (Texas) provided by Shilpa Nawathe.

Kaka Maharaj arrived in the city of Austin, Texas on the evening of Thursday 23rd Aug 2007 around 6.00 pm. This visit was after his New York/New Jercy visit. I went to receive him at the Austin airport. There was hardly any time to rest for maharaj after this journey from New York till Austin. The same night he gave a discourse at residence of Mrs. Kamlaben Mehta. The discourse was arranged by the Jain Sangha of Greater Austin.There were about 25 people who attended the discourse and listened to Kaka maharaj with interest. Kaka maharaj seemed satisfied with the crowd and arrangements.

The morning of Aug 24th 2007 was a routine morning for Kaka maharaj and he was busy in his daily sadhana and rituals as usual. In the evening, kaka maharaj gave discourse at the residence of Shri. RaviKumar Ballada, a friend and manager of mine. Kaka maharaj reached at the discourse location much prior to the scheduled time and was keen on having informal conversation with people gathered there. He seemed happy to see younger crowd present for the discourse location. The discourse began at the scheduled time and continued through the Friday night. About 25 to 30 people attended the discourse.

Saturday, Aug 25th was a busy day. Kaka maharaj gave two discourses on this day. The first one was in the Austin Hindu Temple where kaka maharaj spoke with 7-8 American Christians who came to meet with him and hear about Siddhayoga. The same day evening Kaka Maharaj gave discourse at another temple, Shri Omkara Mahaganapathy Devasthanam which is located in the city of Temple, about 60 miles from the city of Austin. There was a crowd of 10-12 people who attended the discourse. Night of Saturday some time was spent singing bhajans and kaka maharaj was on harmonium.

Sunday, Aug 26th 2007, was relatively free. Maharaj’s daily morning routine was as busy usual except that samuhik Sadhana was included in that routine. Maharaj got some rest in the afternoon. He spent time reading books written by Shri. Potbhare and wrote blessings for the books. In the evening Kaka maharaj talked about Bhagwad Gita. He stressed that each verse of Gita can be practiced in day to day life and is not meant just for reading/singing as is conventionally done. He talked at length quoting several verses of Gita and how the practise of Siddhayoga was consistent with the teachings of Bhagwad Gita.

Monday, Aug 27th 2007, was a big day. This was a day of the global trial for universal brotherhood and also a day for Deeksha. After this event, Maharaj got some rest. Evening of Monday, we performed Shankarachi aarti since it was month of Shravan. After the aarti, samuhik sadhana was performed as per kaka maharaj’s suggestion.

Tuesday Aug 28th 2007, was a day for Rakhi Pournima. Maharaj offered Rakhi to p.p. Swami maharaj and I offered one to P.P. swami maharaj and tied rakhi to Kaka maharaj as well. The sad and hard part was next. Saying farewell to our Kaka Maharaj !! The same morning Kaka maharaj left for Boston, his next venture in US tour.

PP Shri Kakamaharaj's visit to Chicago area

On 19th Sept., at 7.00 pm at Dr. Nagabhushanam Koneru's house in Barrington, IL. Dr. Koneru is a very well known Dr. in Chicago and he is a chief trustee of the Sai Baba temple in Chicago. He and his wife received P.P. Maharaj with great devotion and had called a priest to perform the Pooja. Both Dr. Koneru and his wife did padya Pooja in the silver plate. Dr. Koneru had invited over 25 prominent people of Chicago to the discourse at his palacious home.


On 21 Sept, Friday: P.P. Maharaj gave a discourse to over 60 people at Sai Baba Temple in Aurora, IL. P.P. Maharaj was received by Dr. Koneru and priests did Pooja of Maharaj. P.P. Maharaj then did Pooja of Sai Baba.




On 23rd Sept. Sunday: P.P. Maharaj attended the RSS - HSS shakha in Naperville, took part in the shakha activities and performed surya namaskars with all other Swayamsevaks. In the shakha Maharaj gave a discourse to all the attending Sangh Swayamsevaks. The total sankhya (attendance) was 55.














On 24th Monday; Maharaj gave a discourse to all the local American students of Peaceful Yoga center of Naperville, Over 40 Americans attended the event.

Description and all photos provided by Prasad Garkhedkar.

More photos from Northern California

For more photos from the Northern California visit by PP Shri Kakamaharaj, please visit Sunil Padture's online picture album at Google.

Photos from the Michigan visit

Photos shared by Dr. Yogini Deshpande. All the pictures of PP Shri Kakamaharaj are with a group of Michigan University students.

Northern California Photos

Photos sent by Neha Vishwarupe.











PP Shri Kakamaharaj giving discourse at Palo Alto, California.












Another picture of the Palo Alto discourse.












Discourse at San Francisco.

Details of the Northern California Visit

Here are the details as described by one of the sadhaks named Mr. Sunil Padture:

Maharaj arrived at San Jose Airport with Dr Deshpande on Sept 12 at noon. Many Sadhak welcomed Maharaj (Shyam, Smita, Deepa, Mr and Mrs Gadre, Neha, Sunil, Pranav). Maharaj stayed with Pranav Dhekane, his grand nephew for a day.

On Sep 13 evening, Maharaj, after meeting a few sadhak at their homes, went to Cupertino's e-prasaran internet radio recording. He stayed at a Sadhak Neha Vishwarupe and in the morning performed samuhic sadhana. Several sadhak asked him questions about Sadhana.

Following day, Sept 14, an event was hosted at Los Altos library at 7 PM. This was attended by about 35 people. Maharaj gave a discourse and took questions and answered each. Later Maharaj visited a sadhak home for few minutes and proceeded to Shri Padture home in Union City.

Saturday Sep 15th marked two events, a radio interview by Stanford University Radio at Padture's home and a discourse in Fremont. Radio interview was conducted by Mr Shripati for about 40 minutes which will be broadcast during November. Fremont discourse later that afternoon was mainly attended by Gujrathi association members and hosted by Mr and Mrs Patel. About 60 people attended this 2 hour discourse. After visiting the hosts Mr Patel, maharaj returned home for his Sandhya and Sadhana.

Sunday, Sep 16 turned out to be a very busy day. Sunday samuhic sadhana was hosted where Maharaj was staying. Maharaj answered questions about sadhana and reiterated the rule of "no sadhana no meal". After Ganesh pooja and lunch, later, that afternoon Gurudev visited Yoga Society of San Francisco institute in the San Francisco city. At a temple within the institute maharaj gave a discourse to about 15 people. In the evening there was another discourse at a Church in Palo Alto. This was attended by about 40 people. Questions and answer session for this session was so intense that it lasted for hour and half.

On Monday, Sep 17th Maharaj, during the city tour, visited historic Chinatown, a tourist attraction called Lombard Street and San Francisco Port called "Embarcadero". In the evening, Maharaj visited Swami Shivomtirtha disciples in Berkeley. This informal session was mainly to guide sadhak in their meditation. Pictures of Swami Vishnutirtha and Swami Shivomtirtha dorned the home of the Sadhak Kurt Keutzer. Two sadhana were conducted here and maharaj was very pleased by memories of Swami Vishnutirtha.

On Tuesday, Sep 18th, Maharaj left from San Jose airport around noon. Several Sadhak came to the airport to bid a fond and a tearful farewell.

Broadcast Schedule for Radio Interview

ePrasaran (an internet radio service) will be broadcasting PP Shri Narayankaka Maharaj's interview conducted in Marathi by Neha Vishwarupe on the following days and times.

USA Pacific Time: (California)

Friday October 5th : 7.00 AM, 11.00 AM, 3.00 PM and 7.00PM

Saturday October 6th: 12.10 PM

Sunday October 7th: 8.10 AM

India Time:

Friday October 5th : 7.30 PM and 11.30 PM

Saturday October 6th :3.30 AM and 7.30 AM

Sunday October 7th : 12.40 AM and 8.40 PM

Please inform all interested persons and spread a word about the same. ePrasaran, being an internet radio service, interested persons will only be able to hear the interview using their PCs.