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MahaYogi, is a story sequence by Mutter Gottlich to illustrate like the parables, stories of spirituality,
packaged in a sugar pill for mass consumption.
In this era of consumerism and entertainment, spirituality has to be adopted towards technology,
work theology and the faster pace of life. MahaYogi was created as the medium, a mascot for
Mutter Gottlich and these stories describe dialogues between science and religion and timeless
spirituality tailored to post modernism.

MahaYogi was in the garden of the Governor of California, at that time, the state was facing
increased pressure on their sustainability measures and were fighting a legal war with the
federal government, the governor was concerned with the growing suffering induced by genetic
modification, pesticides and pollutants on nature , he felt guilty for the suffering in flora and fauna
induced by human development.

MahaYogi was the audience to this, and on the subject of suffering he described this story:

"Young Siddhartha was in the garden, with plants, he was forbidden from playing with,
His father wanted to keep him away from the suffering and torment prevalent in nature, but as with all little children, he rebelled, and curiosity got the better of him.

He watched the pitcher plants, as fly after fly landed in it, suffering in agony, struggling to leave the pitcher, being slowly digested by acidic enzymes, decaying with the pitcher into a rotten mass, while a new pitcher grew, repeating the cycle, nourishing the plant.

This was life, the decayed pitcher had dead flies, cockroaches and mosquitoes, all corpses, decayed, partially digested, nourishing the  plant.

Siddhartha had never seen so much suffering, and wondered why there was torment and
suffering.

He decided to leave home to meditate and find the answer.

After years in meditation under a Bodhi tree, Siddhartha, finally understood the reason for
all this suffering, the insects were undergoing. He believed that the insects were totally immersed in this world, and were holding on to life, to the Maya, they were tempted by the sweet nectar of the pitcher plant and were led into a labyrinth of suffering and torment as they clung to life. The blinding maze of light vanished for the bees, and they realized that the pitcher was always open for them to leave. They were lighter and free of bondage, freed from suffering and torment as they flew to freedom, busy as they were, foraging

for true nectar from wildflowers, to feed their young.

I propose to make a plant installation with a pitcher plant , to describe this metaphor and story of Siddhartha at some place and time."

MahaYogi, described the Sarracenia as the 'Maya' of this world of development, on humans,
flora and fauna, the reason for 'dukka' or suffering in a natural world free of hunger,
thirst and cold, suffering and pain. Thus the human condition is something unlike nature,
maladopted and synthetic, not fully formed and transient. The suffering of humans and wildlife
alike caused by this maladoption is the need for sustainability and the restoration of the balance,
the balance the Governor was striving for.