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Youth Experience
Experience service

(rendered without selfish motive)

D

ada's Janma Jayanti at
Gandhidham was approaching.
One day, a meeting was held at
the GNC office for allotting work. My
name propped up in ‘Bal Vignan
Bookstall’ department. I thought that I
would have to sell books and CDs.
Instead I was told to take up full
responsibility of the entire department!
How would I be able to manage this? I
prayed to Dada for 'Shakti'.
On reaching the Janma Jayanti
venue many thoughts were raging
through my mind and things started
happening. This was Dada's grace on me.
Right from little children to adult
'Sevarthis', all put in their efforts and a
beautiful area was set up. Among them
there were several experienced senior
citizens and I was hesitant whether they
would accept my instructions. I needed a
low ego, remain polite and don't thrust
my ideas on them, All the volunteers
provided unselfish service heartily. This
resulted in good feedback from visitors
as well as 'Mahatmas'. They watched the
demonstrations calmly and took back
some interesting lessons with them.
Thus, my work and management at
Gandhidham Janma Jayanti ended
successfully.
After some time I was told to
prepare a report of the sale. Before this
event, I had never handled expenses
running into lakhs of rupees. In such

cases, one normally finds a difference of
Rs.1000/- or Rs.2000/-. Whilst tallying in
my case there was a big difference. I
remained positive and informed this
deficiency. I was confident that I would
be able to solve the problem. I didn't slip
into depression and again I prayed to
Dada to give me 'Shakti' and show me
the way. I got a response from within me
telling me that since I was taking false

pride whilst doing 'Seva' and taking all
credit for myself for completion of all
tasks, so I had to suffer this blame and
punishment alone!
I then recalculated with a cool
mind. Finally I found a small mistake in an
accounts entry into debit column and
rectified the same. I gained confidence
that I can also manage to do some
accounting work. Henceforth, I shall
never be afraid of accepting my ‘Seva’ in
any department. Besides, I will never be
boastful while doing ‘Seva’ and applaud
other’s contribution to the project
equally important. That is the key to
achieve success!
- Ram Patel, Simandhar City

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