By the time you reach Vrindavan, the air itself seems to ask you to slow down. It is not dramatic about it. No grand signs are telling you to shed your noise or your ego. It just happens. The dust settles differently. Temple bells carry farther. Conversations drop a notch, sometimes two. And on December 16, when Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli walked into Shri Hit Radha Keli Kunj, that quiet did most of the talking for them. This was their third visit this year to Premanand Ji Maharaj. Third visits do not happen by accident. They happen when something sticks.
Inside the ashram, there was no choreography. No posed reverence. No sense that this moment was designed for consumption, even though it would inevitably be consumed later. Virat sat the way people sit when they are actually listening, shoulders loose, gaze steady, body language softened by familiarity. Anushka, seated beside him, looked moved in a way that is hard to fake and harder to maintain under public scrutiny.
At one point, her voice caught. She folded her hands and said, Hum aapke hain Maharaj ji, aur aap humare. We are yours, and you are ours. It was not theatrical. It landed because it felt private, almost too intimate for a viral clip, which of course is why it became one.
Premanand Ji Maharaj spoke, as he often does, about service, humility, devotion. The kind of words that sound simple until you actually try to live by them. People present later said it was less a lecture and more a conversation. Gentle. Unhurried. The sort of exchange where no one is trying to impress anyone else.
There is something quietly striking about watching people who live under constant observation choose a space where none of that matters. In that room, Virat Kohli was not a run tally or a form debate. Anushka Sharma was not a box office discussion or a social media headline. They were just two people asking how to live a little more clearly.
When the videos surfaced online, as they inevitably would, the internet did what it always does. Fans slowed clips down, read expressions, filled comment sections with theories and admiration. Many returned to a familiar narrative, that Anushka changed Virat’s life. That she steadied him. That she brought him here.
The truth is probably less cinematic and more human. People grow together. They search together. They influence each other in ways that are subtle and cumulative, not dramatic enough for a montage.
Anushka’s spiritual leanings are not new. She has spoken often about mindfulness, about choosing quiet over chaos. This visit did not feel like a pivot. It felt like continuity. What felt different this time was how visibly emotional she allowed herself to be. Not guarded. Not managed. Just present.
Virat, too, seems to be moving through a quieter chapter. Fewer public declarations. More restraint. A certain inwardness that has replaced the constant outward intensity people once associated with him. Watching him listen inside that ashram, it was hard not to think that this, too, is training. Just for a different muscle.
This was not their first meeting with Premanand Ji Maharaj, and it will likely not be their last. Earlier this year, they visited during pivotal moments in Virat’s cricketing journey. Each time, the visits have added another layer to how the public sees them. Not untouchable celebrities dispensing wisdom, but seekers still figuring things out.
In a culture that encourages constant sharing, something was refreshing about how little was explained afterwards. No long captions. No philosophical essays. Just fragments of a moment that clearly meant more to the people in the room than to anyone watching later.
As they left the ashram, there was no dramatic farewell. No lingering wave. They stepped back into the road, into the waiting world, carrying whatever they had come for quietly with them.
And maybe that is the point. Some things are not meant to be performed. They are meant to be carried.
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Sana has been covering film, fame, and everything in between for over a decade. From red carpets to rehab rumors, she brings nuance, wit, and an insider’s edge to every story. When she’s not reporting, she’s probably watching Koffee With Karan reruns or doom-scrolling celebrity IG feeds.
