When my father passed on 14th April 1979, that was the first big blow of my life. Everything changed after that day as my father was the sole income earner of the house. I am the youngest of four children. Then during the funeral ceremony, I got my 2nd blow when my uncles, standing at the four corners of the funeral pyre, flung me in the air to each other in diagonal, just like a soccer ball. Since then, I started questioning a lot on rituals. And of course, there were more questions than answers. Life was not easy with loads of sacrifices & delayed gratifications as well as no gratifications sometimes. But we all hung on & waited patiently. On the other hand, a good portion of my relatives were very supportive & loving.
Then, I went to Royal College Curepipe where I met great friends & teachers. That also shaped up my character. I managed to get a loan from the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam fund to cover my four years Mechanical Engineering studies at the University of Mauritius. During my 3rd year, I fell sick & I was on medication for several months. The doctor recommended yoga & meditation, which I started. And I never stopped meditating since then. After graduation, I managed to obtain several managerial positions in my career in the private sector. Following societal norms, I got married in 2001, got a daughter in 2003. Then, the 3rd big blow arrived with the separation. I again tried to continue to follow societal rules & tried marriage a 2nd time – it didn’t work either. From there, I renounced marriage & accepted my fate to embrace loneliness in December 2014. And I will admit that this very loneliness that many of us fear, actually nourished my soul. I made several spiritual retreats in my house itself by keeping at distance all human contacts for several months – I was amazed by the results.
I started to read & study the Bhagavad Gita, (gifted by sister) a book which started answering many of my questions – what a relief! I took Reiki initiations one after the other & was pleasantly surprised by its capacity to heal myself and human sufferings up to even curing complex diseases. Now, I was literally falling in love with spirituality & kept pushing forward. And the aims became to find the Path & the Truth. I taught yoga classes, Reiki initiations, meditation & did healing sessions to earn a living. Then, a patient lovingly asked me to come & speak on spiritual matters in a temple, which I accepted & the first speech was in February 2017. This lasted for some six years. During that time, we also started charity to one shelter per month. It then became 3 shelters per month until in June 2021, we also started feeding the homeless 2 or 3 times per week. All these were done by volunteers & the meals were most of the time homemade.
Since 2022, I also embarked on making motivational speeches in colleges & universities as well as doing a few radio programs to continue on the same line. I am also active on social media for the same spiritual reasons. Now, the objective is to share divine light & knowledge to all spiritual aspirants & to make them relish the power & satisfaction of a spiritual life.