Leap of Faith

In my last post, I mentioned that, the choice to go ahead with a critical operation for my father was a very big leap of faith for my family, which, with God’s grace, proved to be a good decision.
When I shared the story about the above incident in 2007, my narration, sent in a simple email to a group of teachers went viral & found its place on several blogs & websites. Today 6yrs later, I would like to narrate the same incident mentioned above, albeit, a version of my learnings from the same!

10 days before the end of my first trip to Israel, for teaching Art of Living programs for Jewish & Arab women suffering from breast cancer, I had received news of my father’s critical health condition & probable operation.

Leap of Faith

I had a choice to make, a leap of faith was demanded for: to stay back & teach the last 2 courses at Augusta Victoria hospital or to cancel the courses & go back to India & be by my father’s side. This was a moment of tremendous fear, where personal preferences easily over-ride the thoughts about betterment of others. A wrong decision would have meant I would possibly never see my father alive again. Going back to India meant leaving behind a group of 40 women who looked to the breathing technique 'sudarshan kriya' as a saviour for their psychological well-being during their fight against cancer.

After a communication with my family & my Guru, Poojya Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji, I chose to stay back & teach the courses, while my family made the critical choice of going ahead with the operation.

When I look back I wonder how I found the strength to decide my course of action. I would like to share here few factors that helped me make the decision:

1.    A Strong Fallback:

You are not alone

Inviting your Experiences

On this path called 'Life', each one of us has had our own testing moments. 

On the physical level, a 'Leap of Faith' is what the trapeze artist does! On the emotional & spiritual level, it denotes a moment of choice, a decision, where the result was completely unknown, a moment demanding a 'Leap of Faith'.