Welcome to The Path Within

In the year 2012, I went through one of the darkest periods of my life. Little had I known then that it would present me the experience that would completely change my life. A change that I desperately needed. A change for the better.

Looking back, I realized that there had been many prior experiences that could have resulted in the same change had I seized the opportunity to. After all, it is in darkness that one finds the light, is it not?

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I suppose that is how Life works. It brings us signs where healing or change is required. Heed the signs, or should I say warnings, learn from the experience and take the necessary measures, and we may be spared from its much harsher lesson that follows. Because Life is perhaps the most faithful and patient teacher we’ll ever meet. It keeps repeating the lesson until we have finally learned.

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And learned, I did. The hard way too.

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For a year that followed, I dedicated my entire waking moment to learning about God and my purpose. I was never a religious person. But funny enough, during that one year period, I was the most religious person I knew. Fanatical almost.

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However, soon after, I hit an impasse. There were just too many questions I couldn’t find answers to. As if people were afraid to ask the more difficult questions concerning God and the after life. Not to mention that I also found some of the religious teachings were just downright doubtful.

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When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

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True to the saying, “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear”, I was introduced to my guru in 2013. I knew then that I was facing the biggest decision of my life. I either continued life the way it was, pursuing God the only way I knew how – with all of its ambiguity and doubts. Or I could go with this stranger, a spiritual guru, knowing that there would be no turning back.

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It wasn’t an easy decision for me to make. So hard in fact that it took me over three months to deliberate.

But in the end, I knew that there was only one right decision. I could not shut the little voice inside of me any longer. The voice that knew all along, that there were so much more to what we’ve been told all our lives. And that if I didn’t take this opportunity to break out of my comfort zone, I will probably never know what’s really out there.

It was the best decision I had ever made. My life was completely transformed under guru’s loving guidance. He’s opened the door to spirituality and higher truth I never knew existed. With his wisdom and higher knowing, he melted away my doubts and uncertainties with compassion and understanding.

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“Awaken your heart”, as he’d always say.

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I remember the first time I met guru. Although a simple man in his early 60s, his presence was magnetic, and there was clearly something mysteriously powerful about him. I later discovered that guru was known among the small followers of the occult and mysticism as an enlightened soul and a great mystic.

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Guru spent most of his younger years searching for God, going from one teacher after another, finally going out on his own when none of his teachers were able to provide him with the truth he was searching for. Which reminded me of my own journey.

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The two years I spent as Guru’s disciple were the most enlightening. He lifted the veil that kept me in the dark. Showed me the path to God is truly one that begins in the heart. And that to get to the heart is a pursuit that requires absolute sincerity, surrender and faith.

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He taught me what it meant to live in submission to God’s Will and how to let go of desires. And most of all, he taught me that there was no knowledge more powerful than to know oneself.

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Four years after Guru left us, I find myself still on this path within, the path towards the inner heart. Remembering his words to awaken the heart, to experience the luminosity of Divine Love  that is all around us.

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This blog is dedicated to Guru. A loving and compassionate teacher, a wise and intuitive sage, and a gentle old soul.

Thank you for reading. Blessed be.

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