English 575PrefaceAdventure of Faith Tells The Life Story of a person who was certain from her very youth that her priority was God - and who consciously chose a life of celibacy and devotion to support her priority. The book presents the reader with a gripping account of the author's many steps in her life's adventure as, driven by her faith and an unflinching commitment to experience for herself its deepest meaning, she watched her life unfold.The reader travels with the author from her early childhood days in pre-war Germany to her life as a Benedictine Catholic nun living the secluded discipline of life in a convent. We accompany her through her years spent as a Christian nun in a Hindu ashram in central India, to her discovery of the inner path of Sural Sbabd Yoga and the need for a spiritual Master to guide her in inner practice so she could learn from him to experience God within herself From India we return with the author to her land of birth as she comes back to Germany at her Master's request. She then leaves her religious order and is called upon for the first time as an adult to live her life in the maelstrom of normal worldly activity, while retaining her priority of daily spiritual practice.As the author reflects on the many challenges she faced on the way, we witness her ever-widening perspectives and growing understanding of the relationship between the multiplicity of outward-focused religion and the oneness of the inner world of spirit. With our protagonist, we are confronted with the contradictions presented by the many religions in the name of one God. Equally, we share with her the resolution of these contradictions as, through her association with her Master, her Christian faith comes full circle at a dee
