Amit Gaur’s Journey Towards Forgiveness, Peace and Purpose
In 2006, Amit Gaur experienced something he still considers a miracle. A year later, he was on a very different journey — one that would eventually take him from a senior technology career into spiritual guidance and therapy.
Amit had married his girlfriend in 2005. Although their families were supportive, several astrologers had told them that their horoscopes were not conducive to having a child. They chose to marry anyway. A year later, during a visit to a temple in Karnataka, Amit and his wife experienced something unusual: after their prayers, a sweet and powerful fragrance appeared and lingered for about a minute before disappearing. Only the two of them seemed to notice it. A family acquaintance interpreted the experience as a blessing, and their daughter was born in October 2006.
For Amit, the significance was not simply the event itself, but what it revealed about perception, faith and miracles. What one person may call coincidence, another may experience as a deeply meaningful sign. Looking back, he sees faith, gratitude, surrender and a willingness to accept that we may not know what is best as important elements of what he calls “miracle mindedness.”
His spiritual journey deepened in the years that followed. In 2009, his wife, Pinaki, suggested that he meet her spiritual teacher, GD. Amit initially resisted, feeling that he still had responsibilities and that it was “not the time yet.” Eventually, he agreed to one meeting. GD sat on a sofa opposite him while Pinaki was in the kitchen making tea. Amit remembers very little of what was said. What he remembers is the experience of GD’s gaze — as though it went beyond his personality and saw something deeper within him. That single meeting led Amit to begin attending weekly satsangs. The rest, as he puts it, is history.
At the time, Amit was building a successful career in technology. An Electronics and Communication Engineer with a postgraduate management degree in Telecom, he had moved through roles spanning software testing, IT professional services, pre-sales and sales. Within eight years, he had worked with several organisations and eventually held senior leadership positions, including heading a small business unit of Yahoo and later VMware’s Zimbra business.
By 2011, however, professional success no longer felt like fulfilment. After watching Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement address and reflecting on the question of whether he would want to spend his final day doing what he was doing, Amit knew something had to change. At 31, with a five-year-old daughter and a successful career ahead of him, he made the decision to leave corporate life.
It was not a carefully planned transition into becoming a healer. Amit expected to take a break and perhaps start a business. He sold his vested stock options and walked away from a significant amount of future financial security. What made the decision possible, he says, was not extraordinary courage, but clarity — a clarity that had developed through his spiritual work with GD.
In 2012, Amit began Core Healing India. The early years were uncertain. He invested significantly in a healing technology, and GD supported him both emotionally and financially. Amit’s work gradually evolved from energy healing into a much broader form of one-to-one inner work. Sessions became increasingly remote and included telephonic work, clearings, guided meditations, visualisations and intuitive processes.
Then, several years into the journey, Amit rediscovered A Course in Miracles — a book that had been sitting on his shelf for almost eight years. It changed the direction and understanding of his work. He came to see forgiveness not simply as something one does after being hurt, but as a profound way of releasing what is being held onto and returning to peace.
Today, forgiveness is at the centre of Amit’s work, although his sessions are not necessarily structured as “forgiveness sessions.” The deeper intention is to help people see what they are experiencing with greater clarity, without being so completely identified with the familiar stories, reactions and patterns through which they usually perceive their lives. From that seeing, something different can become possible.
Over more than a decade, Amit has worked one-to-one with people from many walks of life — including senior corporate leaders, judges, artists, actors, students, homemakers and people who simply know that they want to experience life differently. His work has also taken him to the TEDx stage, where he spoke about “Forgiveness as a Therapy.”
At the heart of Amit’s journey is a simple aspiration: to move increasingly in sync with what he understands as the will of God — perfect happiness and peace for everyone. He sees himself less as someone who has all the answers and more as an instrument: creating a space in which another person can look honestly, see more clearly, and perhaps begin to move from suffering towards peace.
For Amit, the journey that began with a successful technology career has therefore not been about leaving one profession for another. It has been about a gradual shift in what he considers meaningful — from achieving and acquiring, towards seeing, forgiving and becoming free.
