This testimony is given with the earnest desire to help someone who is seeking for that truth which liberates from all earthly bondage.
I was brought up in an orthodox church and was taught that heaven was a place far away which I could reach only after going through the experience of death. I was in no hurry to walk the straight and narrow path, because I was told that regardless of how I lived I could still enter heaven if I would comply with certain rules of that church just before going through the experience of death. I became a great procrastinator. Finally I drifted away from the church and became an atheist. I became steeped in materialism; sickness, poverty, and much unhappiness were experienced. My life was anything but harmonious.
It was then that a loved one passed on, and I was in despair. I was left with six small boys in a foreign country with no money, no friends, no work. But we find that "man's extremity is God's opportunity." These words of Christ Jesus came to my thought: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." I set out in search of that truth, and went back to the orthodox churches, but in vain. I read books on philosophy and psychology, took courses and received diplomas, but still I did not find that liberating truth of which Christ Jesus spoke.
