Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty Visit Bengaluru’s Guru Raghavendra Mutt with Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty
Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty, and her parents Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty visit Bengaluru's Guru Raghavendra Mutt for blessings during the auspicious Kartika masa.
Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty Visit Bengaluru’s Guru Raghavendra Mutt Alongside Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty for Spiritual Blessings During Kartika Masa
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who recently visited India with his wife Akshata Murty, paid a spiritual visit to the Guru Raghavendra Mutt in Bengaluru’s Jayanagar. One who is known for respect and affinity towards Indian traditions, Sunak used the Kartika masa, which is sacred according to the Hindu calendar, to visit the temple. The couple sought blessings in the name of Guru Raghavendra Swamy, a 16th-century saint whose preaching and guidance inspire devotees across the world.
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Along with Sunak and his wife Akshata, her parents, NR Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty also joined them. It’s a well-known tech and philanthropic family like Murthys joining the couple to perform various rituals and prayers at the temple. It is a great honor to their visit as the family presents deep-rooted spiritual values as Narayana Murthy is the founder of Infosys and Sudha is an excellent author and social worker.
Rishi Sunak has been very vocal about his attachment to Indian traditions and spirituality. This visit to the Raghavendra Mutt is part of his general engagement with his faith, which he has spoken on many occasions about. This summer while visiting London’s BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir, Sunak himself spoke about his personal beliefs. He said, “I am Hindu and just like all of you; I take inspiration from the same and seek comfort too in my faith.” Reflecting on his journey and experiences in life, Sunak told how Hinduism impacted both his personal life as well as professional. Egoless, he mentioned taking an oath as an elected Member of Parliament over Bhagavad Gita.
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This faith belief guides Sunak into his life and also characterizes how he approaches working in the public sector. He usually talks about how there’s this concept, dharma, which denotes the sense of duty you have to fulfill without concern for its outcome. “Our faith teaches us to do our duty and fret not at the outcome, as long as one does it faithfully,” he has said while speaking in an earlier public address. He also wanted that values were taught to the children by him, for his daughters, he just wishes they would be like he had been raised through his entire life with some of that moral and spiritual type lessons there.
Any of his visits to India may often be made headlines: this time in particular is more for love for the culture and dishes of Indian that this former PM of Britain often shares among people back in Britain but now shared to the India nation he recently visited over dosa. A simple photograph from casual-dress Sunak who was trying some Bengaluru’s dosas and also eating lunch at its Vidyarthi Bhavan restaurant set social networking websites abuzz with tributes to “Down-Right Simple” Sunny.
The latest visit to the Guru Raghavendra Mutt with his continued interaction with the Indian spirit and culture made Sunak an unmissable global leader maintaining great ties with his Indian identity. The fact that it was accompanied by the Akshata Murty Narayana Murthy Sudha Murty in this temple visit made it yet another moment of combining global stature with the traditionally Indian values adopted by the family.
With political leaders now distancing themselves from their belief systems most of the time, it is rare for someone like Rishi Sunak to be openly truthful about his Hindu faith and committed to passing this faith onto the next generation. All such visits to temples and participation in spiritual practices across both in India and abroad bring this home to him in realizing the deep bond of origin for many people of Indian origin with their roots from across the world.
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