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Guruji’s grace, in

the school of life

My first visit to Guruji’s sangat was on my 21st birthday. My
father, Commander R.K. Sharma, had been going for Guruji’s
darshan for quite some time but my mother, my two younger sisters
and I had never accompanied him till then. On my twenty-first
birthday, I don’t know why, but I felt like taking his blessings.

I had always been an average student. After scoring just about 64
per cent in my Class XII boards, I could not get admission to any of
the ‘good’ DU colleges in the science stream. My father enrolled me
into the BCA program of Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Little did I know that the first-attempt pass-out percentage of
IGNOU for its BCA-MCA degrees was only 3 per cent, that is, three
in 100 students pass in their first attempt. With Guruji’s blessings, in
spite of being an average student, I cleared not only my BCA degree
but also my MCA degree on the first attempt. If this was not enough,
I even managed to clear a two-year NIIT course with an excellent
score along with my graduation and was able to manage one and a
half years of work experience as a software developer along with my
post-graduation. Who would have thought that a girl like me could
cope with so much of pressure and hard work? But I managed it and
it all happened with Guruji’s blessings.

Soon the whole family started going to Guruji’s sangat for his
darshan religiously. After completing my MCA, I desperately needed
a new job. So once my exams got over, we all visited Guruji for his
darshan. My mother prayed to Guruji for a good job for me with a

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