Puttaparthi · Established 2017
Every act of life,
performed as worship.
Sri Sathya Sai Kuteer is a spiritual centre and public charitable trust where the fire ritual at dawn and the meal carried to a lonely elder at noon are understood to be the same practice.
Welcome to the Kuteer
Not merely an Ashram, but a true Aashrayam — a refuge.
In January 2017, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba instructed Mata Vishwatmananda Giri to build a Kuteer at Puttaparthi — a place, He said, where thousands of seekers would come to practise. Lord Panchamukhi Anjaneya Swamy is its Kshetrapalaka, its guardian deity.
The Kuteer was inaugurated on 24 December 2017, on Christmas Day. What has grown here since is deliberately ordinary: food cooked and carried, eyes examined, water drawn, children taught, monkeys fed. Work done in a way that respects every faith and looks past caste and creed — because the instruction we were given was that this, precisely this, is the spiritual practice.
2017
Inaugurated on 24 December, and serving without a break since.
The year in numbers
Seva, counted
We count these not as achievements but as a record — so that anyone who supports this work can see exactly where it went.
1,31,700+
Meals served
Through daily and monthly Narayana Seva
2,640+
People treated
At free eye, allopathy and naturopathy camps
84,60,000+
Litres of water
RO-purified drinking water, free to all, 24×7
80+
Children supported
Daily tuitions, computer classes and yoga
Figures from the Kuteer activity report for the financial year 2025–2026.
What we do
Six streams of service
Each runs to its own rhythm — some daily, some on the 23rd of every month, one that never closes at all.
Daily · 5th, 11th and 23rd
Narayana Seva
A freshly cooked lunch carried to around 55 elderly and destitute people every single day — and to some 1,200 guests on the 23rd of every month.
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23rd · naturopathy 20th–24th
Free Medical Camps
Three free camps run side by side each month — eye screening with surgery referrals to Sankara Eye Hospital, a general allopathy clinic, and naturopathy for chronic conditions.
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Six evenings a week
Education & Skills
Free tuition for around 40 children at the Kuteer and a further 120 at two village centres — with evening snacks, computer classes and Sunday yoga.
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Drinking Water, 24×7
A reverse-osmosis plant on the Kuteer premises gives more than 1,000 families up to 20 litres of safe drinking water a day, free of cost, around the clock.
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Twice a week
Vanara Seva
Twice every week volunteers travel some 15 kilometres through Puttaparthi, its villages and Bukkapatnam to feed the monkey troops — because service does not stop at our own species.
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As families are identified
Grocery Distribution
Kits of essential provisions given to families in and around Puttaparthi identified as being in immediate need.
Read moreI, who maintain that every action in life is a form of spiritual practice, urge you all to build these Kutirs. Through service, through teaching, and through practice together, pave the way for a noble life defined by sacrifice.
A day at the Kuteer
The daily rhythm
Visitors are welcome at any of it. Nothing here is ticketed, and nothing requires an introduction.
Early morning
Abhishekam
A fifteen-minute ritual bathing of the Salagrama, with the Abhisheka mantras and the Shiva Stotras.
9:00 AM
Geetha Homam
A forty-five minute fire ritual — Daivagna Hotra mantras, one chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, and the Gayatri of many deities. Anyone may join.
Midday
Narayana Seva
Lunch cooked in the Kuteer kitchen, packed into carriers and delivered to around 55 elderly and destitute people.
Through the day
Stotra Parayanam
The chanting of hymns, continuing alongside the work — because at the Kuteer the work is not separate from the worship.
Read and listen
The teaching, freely given
Fourteen volumes and an archive of talks — none of it sold, none of it behind a sign-up.
Fourteen books, free to download
Anjaneya’s Command in three volumes, in Telugu and English. Nithya Sathya Bodha. Inner Experiences. Making of a Yogi. All of them PDFs, all of them free.
Talks, satsangs and Shorts
Nineteen recorded talks on karma, meditation and practice — and the Shorts on our YouTube channel, where Anjaneya’s commands are posted as they are given.
From the Kuteer
Photographs from this year
Join us
There is always more to be done than hands to do it.
Come and serve for a morning, support a month of meals, or simply visit and sit with us at the Geetha Homam. Every one of those is welcome.