The Decision Beneath the Decision

A young businessman came to me once. He told me he had met Krishna devotees, visited their community, and decided to join them. He had no family of his own, he was financially stable, and the decision came out of nowhere. His parents didn’t support it, but he had already made up his mind.

And yet… he felt an urge to see me for reincarnation therapy before he left. He didn’t understand why.

I didn’t know what would happen either — after all, his decision was already made.

We meditated deeply, and slowly a past life began to form.

He saw himself as a small boy in Tibet. His parents were extremely poor, and he was their only child. They couldn’t feed him properly, and out of love and desperation, they made a painful decision: they gave him to a monastery so he would be fed and cared for.

He missed his family terribly. His days were simple: wake early, pray, clean, cook… pray, clean, cook… sleep. Years passed. The routine became normal. He grew into adulthood inside those walls. One day, the abbot of the monastery told him his parents had died. He had to return to his birthplace to arrange the inheritance. The abbot added something unexpected: “If you do not return to the monastery afterwards, that is also fine.”

He couldn’t imagine not returning. The monastery was his whole world.

But life had other plans.

In his hometown, he met a young woman.

They fell in love.

They married.

For a few years, he lived a completely different life — full of connection, emotion, and human experience. His wife died young. Heartbroken, he returned to the monastery and lived out the rest of his life as a monk.

At the end of every reincarnation therapy, I guide people through their death — not as fear, but as completion. It brings clarity, understanding, and closure. His conclusion was simple and profound: His spiritual development in those few years outside the monastery — with his wife, with love, with life — was deeper than all the decades he spent praying inside it.

He realised he wasn’t drawn to the Krishna community because of devotion.

He was drawn because of an old pattern: the desire to retreat, to withdraw, to escape life in the name of spirituality.

And once he saw that clearly, his decision changed.