By Acharya Dwivedi
VANCOUVER – Arun Chatterjee is the first Indo Canadian who has been appointed as a Spiritual Care Practitioner by the Vancouver Coastal Health in George Pearson Center. He received a Master of Arts Degree in Public And Pastoral Leadership and Spiritual Care from Vancouver School of Theology on May 9,2016. The convocation was held at Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church in Vancouver.
Inspired by vast research and steered by compassion the spiritual care has become an essential component of overall health. Most importantly, when people cope with disability, illness or suffering then they can pull their spiritual resources for comfort and strength. Moreover, the healing process is more accelerated and it serves as a major source of gaining physical, mental and spiritual energy. Person doesn’t have to be a religious or non-religious to benefit from spiritual care.
Most of the hospitals provide the spiritual care practitioner who offers spiritual support to staff , patient and their family members. It promotes spirit of peace, reconciliation and hope.
I met Arun after the convocation festivities were over and asked him how he got interested into spiritual care?
He smilingly said: “Dwivedi ji, I worked, for more than thirteen years, as a computer engineer in corporate world and was financially quite secured and successful but didn’t have inner satisfaction and peace.
“While searching for peace I visited several religious centers and shrines and finally awakened with the idea – that spiritual way is the only way to attain peace in self and also to help others in accomplishing it.”
He further commented that after a serious research I got finally into VST. Now, he wants to work, apart from his spiritual services, for the homeless, marginalized and hungry children in schools.
