His new chance at life saw him and his family arrive in Australia as a war-torn refugee at 10 years old. 

As he had not gone through any schooling due, to the occupation of the war, he began his young life in Australia facing many difficulties and disadvantages. However, for the next 20 years, Mr Pal preserved with diligence and discipline to excel academically, being a member of the Maths Olympiad representing Australia and topping the state in the final Year 12 exam. Ultimately, Mr Pal graduated with Bachelor's Degree of Computer Engineering at Australia's prestigious university, and went on to become a successful engineer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-educator.

Mr Pal's success had been manifested through the success of his business ventures as a young entrepreneur in technology, retail and education.

However, his life took a turn in his mid-30s, when he faced yet another personal life crisis, which almost led him to give up everything he had built.

His view of reality as people know it, became uncertain and ungrounded. It was the start of deep darkness that initiated his existential crisis, propelling him to search for the deeper meaning and the purpose of life.

In 2011, he discovered the noble path to live a more meaningful and purposeful life, through the methodically scientific exploration of the mind and its mental objects as discoursed by the Buddha in his teachings of the Noble Truths - the Dhamma.

With a mind innately inclined by his computer engineering background, Mr. Pal always had difficulty aligning himself with any form of religion or blind faith that lacked reason and explanations for the causes and effects of the sufferings that a person experiences in their life.

Thus, he found the Dhamma to be the user manual for human beings to navigate through the suffocating darkness (ignorance). As asserted by himself, the Dhamma is the science of the mind.