{"id":1031866,"date":"2026-08-29T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031866"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:04:25","slug":"need-spiritual-guidance-gurus-join-chatbot-trend-as-people-turn-to-ai-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/29\/need-spiritual-guidance-gurus-join-chatbot-trend-as-people-turn-to-ai-for-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Need spiritual guidance? Gurus join chatbot trend as people turn to AI for answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Kripa Vaidyanathan&#8217;s 27-year-old niece died in an Alaska car crash in 2024, her family in Chennai, India, felt shell-shocked. They questioned why this tragedy would befall them when they had such &#8220;immense faith in God.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Vaidyanathan, a yoga instructor, helped her grieving sister get face time with a high-profile guru who she hoped would help. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he told her this was the work of karma and she should use this opportunity to connect with her inner nature,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I understand how karma works, but saying that was cruel and extremely unhelpful to someone who was freshly grieving the loss of a child.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Kripa Vaidyanathan&#8217;s 27-year-old niece died in an Alaska car crash in 2024, her family in Chennai, India, felt shell-shocked. They questioned why this tragedy would befall them when they had such &#8220;immense faith in God.&#8221; Vaidyanathan, a yoga instructor, helped her grieving sister get face time with a high-profile guru who she hoped would help. &#8220;But he told her this was the work of karma and she should use this opportunity to connect with her inner nature,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I understand how karma works, but saying that was cruel and extremely unhelpful to someone who was freshly grieving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031897,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031866\/revisions\/1031897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}