Nitya Yoga—Continuous Practice of Remembrance

Nitya yoga—the yoga of constant, perpetual practice—reflects the understanding that spiritual development is not a destination but a way of living. Mirabai's devotion was nitya: every moment held the possibility of remembrance, longing, and connection to the divine. Applied to collective grief, nitya yoga reimagines mourning not as an acute crisis to move through but as an ongoing, integrated dimension of life. We do not finish grieving public figures or tragedies; we learn to live with them as part of our spiritual landscape. This might mean annual remembrance practices, ongoing rituals, carrying the memory in our hearts, allowing grief to inform how we live and love going forward. Nitya yoga suggests that the examined heart continues to examine its relationship with loss, asking periodically: What do I still learn from this person's absence? How has their death changed me? What would honoring their memory look like today? Collective grief becomes not a problem to solve but a practice to sustain—a way of remaining faithful to those lost and to the truth of impermanence that shapes all human life.