When a friend of mine first talked to me about Amma and Bhagavan in 1999 my first thought was: another guru from India.

Despite this I immediately took the opportunity of going on a course on their teachings in January 2000; after just two months I started working to diffuse the Oneness movement.

That same year I went on a course in India held by Samadarshini who is currently responsible for the Oneness University in Europe. At the time the phenomenon was not called Deeksha and was only given once during a 15 day course. The course was wonderful and decisive in driving me to learn more about Oneness.

In the following four years my commitment to the development and diffusion of the Oneness movement increased continuously to the point that I had to leave my shop because I no longer had time to run it.

In 2002 I started accompanying the first groups from the West to Golden City, mainly people from Scandinavia. I met Amma and Bhagavan personally many times and started to get to know all the teachers in Golden City. In January 2004 I took part in the first 21 day course together with other people from all over the world. From that moment I have accompanied many groups of westerners as helper. I recently counted that I have been to India about forty times!

The Oneness Deeksha/Blessing has slowly changed my life; this process of transformation has taken time and is continuing still today. At the beginning I had to make an effort to understand the teachings and especially to put them in practice every day but now everything just happens effortlessly in a fluid way. Life has become easy and everyday is a wonderful adventure; I accept what happens to me and when I feel something troubles me or makes me feel uneasy I take everything “home”, listen to my perceptions, live the experience and realise that everything is within me. I live everything that happens to me as a blessing and feel immense gratitude to life.

It is wonderful to see how the changes in my life have in turn transformed the people I have a relationship with everyday: family, friends and work colleagues.

The way I perceive reality has changed. Once my fears and emotional charges from the past made me react towards others but thanks to the growth achieved with the Oneness Deeksha/Blessing now I always feel peaceful and happy. I can say that life has become really easy for me.

When it was decided to shorten the Level 1 course to 8 days I was a bit sceptical and I was worried it would be less effective; I have changed my mind however after personally experiencing that the intensity has not changed, if anything it has increased. The level of growth of the participants is the best proof of this. I was also sceptical about the fact that the courses would be held outside India but after having been to the Fiji islands and above all here at the Campus in Povegliano I can say that participants have exactly the same opportunity of personal growth and experience as before, and in some ways it is even greater because they are in and environment more similar to their own which makes them feel at home and therefore more receptive.

It doesn’t matter where you are because “It works”! As Anandagiri says it works wherever we are and this is wonderful.