There is a saying that the family that prays together stays together. One of the gifts in our family, just Asha and I, is her dedication to prayer and her commitment to preserving an atmosphere of sacredness in our home.

The kitchen is a space she is particularly mindful of. As a result, I believe we have cultivated something of a holy life, especially after leaving the monastery. Asha and I met in the monastery when I was a monk, and she became very close to our mentor, Beat Griffiths.

Even after our marriage, we spent about six months in the ashram as a married couple. The sensitivity of the ashramic way of life has always influenced us. However, there is something more at play.

There is the essence of India itself and the Hindu tradition, which embodies a prevailing sense of the sacred. Bede Griffiths defined the spirituality of India as inseparable from its culture, using the exquisite term "a sense of the sacred."

Griffiths noted that when he first arrived in Mumbai, formerly ...