His Grace Is My Luck

I am a Doctor and I am also preparing for the Civil Services Exams. It was in 2011 when suddenly something really shook me up. Despite my hard-work, results were not coming my way. Luck had deserted me. No matter how hard I would study for the exam, I would not do well. This was extremely discouraging for me. I became disinterested in studies and lost my sleep as well. I had no idea as to what was going wrong, what was lacking. In those hard days, I somehow happened to do the Basic Course of The Art Of Living and out of nowhere and things drastically changed after that.

For this year’s IAS preliminary exam, I was studying very hard, but still there was this impression in my mind that luck would not favor me again, as always. I kept praying to Sri Sri, got blessings from Art Of Living blessers. I had no clue as to how I would fare this time around. All I could do was hope for the best. When I was in the exam, I was gladly surprised on seeing the question papers. “Luck”, which I used to lament a lot about, was in my favor this time. Most of the questions were from portions which I had read and studied well. And questions which I had not read myself, my friends had asked me just before the exam. As a result, I had covered the entire portion well enough. I scored far beyond my expectations. I never thought, even in my wildest of dreams that I would score 307 out of 400 marks, that too in an IAS exam where nobody can guess from where the questions will come.

Even I am surprised at my score. In my own friends circle, good students have also failed to score that high. I am 100% sure that this is the work of Guruji. It is only His Grace. He has shattered the luck-grudge in me. His Grace is my Luck now.

We just need to drop all our inhibitions and then see the magic He does. Just work hard, give your 100%, and then surrender everything at His lotus feet. Do not ever fear. He is right here. Right now I am preparing for the IAS final exams and I am very optimistic that Guruji’s Grace won’t let my hard work go waste ever.

JGD!
Devendra Pachauri