Virat Kohli, who has retired from Test cricket, and his wife Anushka Sharma reached Vrindavan on Tuesday morning. Here they met Saint Premanand Maharaj at Shriradhe Hit Kelly Kunj Ashram. During this, both of them took blessings from Saint Maharaj and participated in a spiritual discussion. This is considered to be their first public appearance after retirement. After retirement, he reached Vrindavan directly in search of spiritual peace.
Virat retired from Test cricket on Monday
Virat announced his retirement from Test cricket through an Instagram post on Monday. He confirmed putting an end to his 14-year Test career through an emotional post. Virat had said that he has learned a lot from this format. Virat has already retired from T20 International and will now be seen playing only in ODIs. Virat is also a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in IPL 2025 and after a few days he will join the RCB team and will try to make the team champion for the first time.

Kohli-Anushka stayed for three and a half hours at Saint Premanand's ashram

Kohli and Anushka spent more than three and a half hours at Saint Premanand's ashram. Both reached the ashram at around six in the morning and left from there at around nine and a half. This is not the first time Virat has come to meet Saint Premanand. He had earlier visited him in January 2023 in January this year. Now after retiring from Test cricket, he had an in-depth discussion with Saint Premanand. During this, Virat asked how to get out of failure? To this, Premanand said that keep practicing.

Key points of Saint Premanand's conversation with Virat-Anushka

Saint Premanand: Are you happy?

Virat Kohli: Yes, I am fine.

Saint Premanand: Yes, it should remain fine. We tell you the law of our Lord. When God showers his blessings on someone, this wealth is not a blessing, it is virtue. Even a big sinner gets wealth due to virtue. This increase in wealth or fame is not considered to be God's blessing. What is considered God's blessing is the change in the inner thoughts. Due to which the sanskars of your infinite births are destroyed and the next one will be very good. This happens due to inner thoughts, nothing happens from outside. The inner thoughts have become our nature to be inimical. Inimical means outside. Outside means fame, glory, profit, victory, we get happiness from this. No one cares about the inside. Now what happens when God showers his blessings, then the saints give a meeting. The second time when he showers his blessings, he gives adversity and then gives a way from inside. This is the way to ultimate peace. God gives the way of peace and calls the creature to himself. Without adversity, the attachment to the world does not get destroyed. If someone has renunciation, then he has renunciation after seeing the adversity of the world. If everything is in our favor, we enjoy it happily, when adversity comes upon us, we feel hurt that this world is so false. After this, God shows us the way from within that this is right. There is no medicine to get rid of this world without adversity. Till date, all the great men, whose lives have changed, their lives have changed after seeing adversity. So whenever adversity comes, be happy at that time and understand that now God is blessing me. I am getting inspiration to walk on the right path. Improve yourself, bring your life to truth, then whatever happens next will be very strong. If you do not attain God in this birth, then Lord Krishna has said in the Gita - A devotee does not get destroyed. I give birth in a family of noble and rich people and then again give an environment of devotion, I raise the bhajan that was left in the past from there. Live exactly the way you are living, live completely worldly, but try to change your inner thinking. There should not be any feeling of increasing wealth in your inner thoughts. In your inner thoughts, keep thinking – Lord, many births have passed, now I want to meet you once. Now I only want you, not the world. So this will solve the problem. Therefore, chant the name of God happily, do not worry at all.

Anushka Sharma: Baba, will it happen by chanting the name?

Saint Premanand: Complete. This is my life experience. I have entered all the four yogas, Sankhyoga, Ashtangyoga, Karmayoga and Bhaktiyoga. There is no one more knowledgeable than Lord Shankar himself. There is no one more knowledgeable than Sankadi. Sankadi always chants 'Harisharanam, Harisharanam'. Lord Shiva keeps chanting Ram Ram Ram Ram. We, the residents of Vrindavan, worshippers of Priya Pritam, chant Radha Radha. The Ra and Dha in Ram are things that give joy. We have had a logical mind, not a devotee's mind. So if you chant Radha Radha, you will attain God in this very birth. If our last breath says Radha, then we will directly attain Shreeji, we will attain God. There is no doubt in this and there is no need for any means. If you are writing Radha, then the mind will not run away. So whether you write it 10 times or 100 times, but make it a practice. Take some time for a peaceful bath etc. and write Radha-Radha and then also think about it. Make it your life, then you will see the result yourself. It is not a loss-making deal. Okay.

After this Virat and Anushka bowed their heads in front of Saint Premanand and saluted him. Then the saints covered Anushka and Virat with a chunari. Saint Premanand said stay very happy and keep chanting the name of God.