The gift of Kripa has been a gift of life to innumerable individuals who once felt abandoned and lost. It was the inspiration of Mother Teresa that helped me make my own life fruitful in service of the marginalised, particularly those wounded by addiction. As a young priest, all religions had, for me, lost their credibility. In fact, many religions seemed to have fallen victim to what we call in addictionology “God addiction.”
Witnessing Mother Teresa’s work gave me a renewed and transformative understanding of religion—not as dogma, but as binding people together. The living formula for this binding was revealed in the gift of the Twelve Step Programme: a self-help model that radically transformed the very definition of help. It taught us that true giving does not come from abundance, but paradoxically from poverty. Sharing one’s brokenness and pain, rather than diminishing the human spirit, mysteriously empowered it.
While Mother gave us this principle of celebrating life at a psycho-spiritual level, Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar offered the most authentic practice of this same principle at the psychosomatic level. This double gift—the celebration of life in both spirit and body—inspired me to seek the lost sheep.
Today, innumerable families can testify that their loved one was lost and is now found, dead and has come back to life. It is the Lord alone who is the giver of life, drawing countless lost souls back home.
This has been the vision and mission of Kripa: a living blend of the gift of Mother Teresa and the gift of Guruji B. K.S. Iyengar. The Kripa story is truly a miracle of grace. It is the hidden secret of discovering the triple gift of love, joy, and peace.