{"id":4865,"date":"2026-05-28T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:25:03","slug":"setbacks-as-blessings-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4865","title":{"rendered":"Setbacks as Blessings in Disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setbacks Can Sometimes Be a Blessing in Disguise<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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In New York, after a grueling two week audition process from 2000 applicants to one winner, I was cast as Orphelia for the Broadway production of a new play by Tom Stoppard called Rosencrantz and Guilderntern. <\/i>This was my first Broadway audition and I was both relieved and thrilled. My husband wanted to return to India and I made a vow that if cast in this play, I would stay in NY and focus on the acting. If not, I would go to India. Three days after I won the role, my agent called me to tell me that as I was six inches taller than the Hamlet being brought from the London production, I was not to play the role after all. Instead, I was offered to understudy Orphelia and play a maid in waiting. In my early twenties and new to NY Theatre, after the shock, I decided to honor my pledge and go to India with my husband and son who was almost two.<\/span><\/p>\n

A setback one would call this and yet it turned out to be the greatest of blessings.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the past three years I had longed to go to India to find a Teacher. Thanks to my husband, I found a great Sage \u2013 a Householder Sage- who lived privately with his wife and three children. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first time I saw the Sage I recognized him from a recurring dream I had experienced since age 7 until recently. I knew I had come home \u2013 spiritually. The planned one month in India turned out to be the most important two years of my life. After two years studying with the Sage, my son and I returned to America and I soon resumed a career in acting. However, the two years in India became a foundation for the rest of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, whenever a seeming setback occurs either in my personal life or professional life, I ask myself, \u201cWhy?\u201d and then tay open for the answer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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