"Thanks for your interest! The information you are going to receive here are the results of many years of spiritual research under the direct guidance and personal relationship with one of the most important spiritual leaders in the world, nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace more than once! With it I would like to give a witness of what I have learnt and personally lived in this special life of mine, of which I am deeply grateful! I hope this could also be useful to you in your personal inner process of spiritual evolution! Jai Gurudev!"

I came into contact with the mysterious readers of the Destiny Leaves in 2006 during one of my journeys in India following my Master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. In that period I was very frustrated because each of my important sentimental relationship inevitably ended in a very painful betrayal for me, probably also because of an obsessive "fear" I had of being betrayed, which characterized the whole of each relationship, and made it ended at last. It was the classical prophecy which was self-fulfilling. When I met a "goody-goody" I fell in love with her. Then after some years the "goody-goody" was transformed into a "monster of evil". Moreover I wanted to leave my job as an Advertising Art Director to devote myself to more spiritual activities, to music and health activities too. In fact I was tired of that very competitive environment and of the many obstacles I met all the time. Although I was always the best, and the person who has always won every competitions, I was not able to gain that stability and serenity which could have allowed me to feel satisfied. Inexplicably, I could do whatever I wanted, I always remained the "unappreciated artist" or the "cuckold mate". Although I was always asked for by my clients, and by my many friends in the foundation of my Master or by the many women who could have said to be "perfect" potential mates, thanks to my personal appeal, for some inexplicable reason I always found myself in the same usual situation... there was no recognition for myself or promotion for me. On the contrary in spite of my good will and sincere wish to cooperate I was perceived by both my spiritual brothers and friends, or by my colleagues, with distrust, while the women with whom I fell in love did not take me seriously or proved unscrupulous.

Then I decided to open my heart to an Indian friend of mine and he told me that if I could detect some recurring events in my life, some constant elements that would happen anyhow, whatever the situation I was living, or whoever the person I had either a working relationship with or a sentimental one... then I should begin to think that some karmic debt was to be paid by me. At that time I didn't understand what it meant, but I could perceive that a change in perspective was due. I asked him "Are you telling me that these events do not depend on the people I meet or on the situations I live which create suffering in me? Are you telling me that on the contrary these situations happen because I need to endure them and live them on dependently from people or actual facts? But why? What did I do wrong?"

I remained without any answer, but while pronouncing those words I must confess that I became conscious of something true which was there... I felt it... as if for a minute one seems to have understood something important... an awakening... a click in one's mind... but at the same time I felt it very strongly in my heart. In that particular moment I understood that maybe my life had a deep meaning, starting from the fact that I belong to a peculiar family, with a handicapped sister, and that I have always had a very strong spiritual feeling and many other talents which didn't prevent me from being confused in my mind or having no practical success... maybe all that could have had a far deeper meaning which was worth understanding more completely.

Then my friend told me: "why can't we try to see if your Leaf exists? maybe on the Leaf there are the reasons of these difficulties of yours! ... from the print of your thumb they can fortell all the most important events of your life ! Are you free today ?"I answered "Leaf? What leaf?". My father, who was in India with me, ironically smiled.

After a little while we found ourselves sat down in a small room with some small individuals tattooed with three stripes on their foreheads, who were handling some strange thin wooden strips, totally carved with incomprehensible hieroglyphs, but so beautiful to be seen. After having studied our right thumb in every way, while some chants were sung in an unknown language (which now I know is ancient Tamil) I began to realize that something very important was happening. I was carefully listening to the voice of the translator and at the same time I was telling it to my father, who did not know English well. But there was no need of any translation when the Reader of the Leaves pronounced the name of my mother "Marisha" (Marisa pronounced with the "s" of Shiva) and my father stood immediately on his feet ! ..."What ?... What did he say ? How can he know my wife's name ?" Then he ran out of the room. Today we still laugh when we remember that moment.

"We have found my own Leaf !"

I cannot describe the sensation of freedom and relaxation that I felt when we started listening to the real reasons the Leaf itself was revealing to us without me telling anything, that were causing my difficulties of that period. On the Leaf it was written the reason for which in this life of mine I have, despite my many artistic talents, "to do so much to gain so very little". It also indicated where my obsession of being betrayed came from. In fact I myself, in a previous life, had betrayed my own Master and had caused suffering in many people by transmitting the wrong Knowledge. It even said that I should have been born an handicapped person, as it has happened to my sister, but then for some spiritual merits it did not happen. It also mentioned the name of my future wife, the person I would have been meeting only three years later, in 2009, and it also said that as far as that moment in all of my relationships I would have found only obstacles and suffering, and that "I would have arrived to the marriage in total confusion, but then I would have found the right person, chosen by me and my own Master" ( in fact, later on, I have married an Indian girl, through a pre-defined wedding, with the blessing of my Master, and it implied a process of mental expansion which required many years on my part !)...and many more details I am waiting to be proved by time ! In short...an unbelievable experience to me !

From that day on I started to bring friends and relatives there, since I wanted to share that opportunity with as many people as possible. My intention in doing so was not so much "to avoid" the difficult moments in life or "to prevent" them from happening, but to understand, because the Leaf shows it so, that the difficult events in life are "opportunities" to let go of resistances and attachments or memories of the past. What else, then, could we desire for ourselves and our dear ones ?

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