AI Becomes the New Spiritual Guide: How Technology Is Transforming Faith in India and Beyond

Around the world — and particularly in India — worshippers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for guidance, prayer, and spiritual comfort. As machines become mediators of faith, a new question arises: what happens when technology becomes our spiritual middleman?

For Vijay Meel, a 25-year-old student from Rajasthan, divine advice once came from gurus. Now, it comes from GitaGPT — an AI chatbot trained on the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu scripture of 700 verses that capture Krishna’s wisdom.

“When I couldn’t clear my banking exams, I was dejected,” Meel recalls. Turning to GitaGPT, he shared his worries and received the reply: “Focus on your actions and let go of the worry for its fruit.”

“It wasn’t something I didn’t know,” Meel says, “but at that moment, I needed someone to remind me.” Since then, the chatbot has become his digital spiritual companion.

AI is changing how people work, learn, and love — and now, how they pray. From Hinduism to Christianity, believers are experimenting with chatbots as sources of guidance. But Hinduism’s long tradition of embracing physical symbols of divinity makes it especially open to AI’s spiritual evolution.

“People feel disconnected

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