Also active in politics, Sai Maa served for several years on the Bordeaux City Council, helping to reform health care in the European Union on behalf of the French government.

[citation needed] In an interview, Sai Maa asserted that "Jesus, St Germain and the archangel Michael showed up in her room one day and told her it was time to 'be in the world,' and she left France and began her spiritual path.

[5] In 2010, the ashram's activities were ended and Sai Maa asked her monks and nuns to move to France, India, Japan, Israel and South America to establish communities to share her teachings.

Sai Maa continued to travel throughout North America, Europe and Asia, offering large public events and seminars, including a programme on the Journey of Profound Healing.

She has written a book titled Petals of Grace: Essential Teachings for Self-Mastery (2005),[8] and contributed to the publication in 2006 of Grandmothers Counsel the World[9] together with Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Carol Moseley Braun, Tenzin Palmo, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Luisah Teish, Wilma Mankiller and others.

In 2009 property was purchased at the Harishchandra Ghat in Varanasi as the national headquarters for the Trust, and to house the Sathya Sai Maa Shaktidhaam Ashram, whose construction began in November 2010.