Sri Sri Ravi Shankar recalls Asha Bhosle’s daily meditation and spiritual discipline

Asha Bhosle’s legacy is being remembered not only in songs, but in the same daily meditation routine she kept alongside a career that stretched across more than 12,000 recordings in more than 20 languages. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has recalled her as a sincere spiritual seeker whose discipline matched her musical range.

Those remembrances put the focus on practice, not just inspiration. Reports after her death on April 12, 2026, said Bhosle meditated and practiced Kriya every day, maintained a close association with the Art of Living Foundation, visited its International Center in Bengaluru and performed at satsangs there. She also contributed devotional music and dedicated the song Main Hoon to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the Art of Living International Center, a detail that underscored how deeply her artistic life and spiritual practice overlapped.

The connection between Bhosle and the foundation had already been marked publicly years earlier. In 2014, the Art of Living presented her with its Vishalakshi Global Award, and the foundation says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar personally gave her the honor. That recognition placed one of India’s most recognizable voices inside a spiritual community built around meditation, breathwork and disciplined routine.

The Art of Living describes itself as an international NGO founded in 1981, with meditation and Sudarshan Kriya at the core of its programs. The organization says it operates in 156 countries and that 45 million people practice its breathing technique. Its own materials frame Sudarshan Kriya as a central method in the Happiness Program, part of a wider system that blends breath, meditation and structure.

For meditation practitioners, Bhosle’s story lands because it is concrete. Her example was not a retreat-only practice or a brief wellness phase. It was a daily commitment that fit around an extraordinary professional life, from her birth on September 8, 1933, to a career that earned Guinness World Records recognition and made her one of India’s most prolific playback singers. The discipline mattered as much as the fame.

That is why Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s remembrance resonated beyond tribute. In Asha Bhosle’s case, spiritual practice was not an accessory to success. It was part of the architecture of her life, repeated day after day through meditation, Kriya and steady connection to a community that valued both devotion and form.