The Reward

I am with the Art of Living since January, 2007. With Sri Sri in my life, I have experienced many miracles. I’m making my first attempt to share one of my experiences here.
This was when I was working for a software company. It was also the time when our businesses were experiencing heavy recession. All my colleagues, managers, team members left the organization and moved on. Then, one of my colleagues became my boss, and I was unable to adjust to this new environment. I was getting into trouble with my role. It was a time of grave mental conflict for me, as I was not too clear about how to progress with my career. So I decided to do my first Advance course to get some clarity. After attending the course, I made up my mind to resign from my job. This was a big decision for me, but somehow it came quite effortlessly. May be if I had not resigned then, my boss would have created a situation to terminate me, forcibly. Being a top performer, this would have been difficult for me to accept.
Now, I was out of my job, and the markets were down due to recession. New opportunities were not too many. Yet, I kept trying for a job. I attended a few interviews, but nothing seemed to work out.
During this time, I decided to visualize my goal, instead of getting tensed and depressed. People, who would meet me, would get surprised seeing my attitude and approach. Friends and ex-colleagues were amazed to see me smiling with confidence always. Thanks to Guruji and all the knowledge He has provided us with, it kept me going during this tough phase. And 3 months passed just like that, with not much progress in my situation. Now I started getting a bit tensed.
Then I did another Advance course, to calm my mind a bit. During the course, I met Guruji and surrendered to Him all my botherations, in writing. I also made a firm decision during this course. I resolved that if I was not successful in getting a job within a months’ time, I would go to the Ashram in order to dedicate my life for Seva. While these thoughts were going on in my mind, I received a call from my sister, who is an Art of Living teacher. She told me that she would need me to assist her in one of the Mega courses she was organizing. So I decided to take this as an opportunity for Seva, and went ahead.

It was a 5 day course. I was doing my Seva innocently, like a child, without thinking that I am doing something special. One evening, during these 5 days, I was sitting in the living room with my family, and suddenly, I started crying in front of everyone, worrying about my job. I did not even realize when I burst out in tears. The worry of my job had eaten me up from inside. My family was surprised to see me crying, as they had only seen the tough side of me.
Next day, I was a bit depressed, but was getting back to normal. I went to assist the course and came back home, as per routine. At night, I went online to check my mails, which I do once in every 2-3 days.
To my surprise, I saw in my inbox that I had received a mail from a top MNC, confirming that I had been selected for the post of a regional role in their organization. This exactly matched the job profile that I had visualized for myself.
This was a complete shocker for me. Along with me, even my family was surprised at this Miracle. It was truly a great one, and much needed too. I had no words to thank Gurudev.
All I could remember at that time was Guruji’s quote, “You do my work and I will do yours.” It was so true. We are all truly blessed to be so deeply and strongly connected to the Master.
Jai Gurudev.