Employment

I had a class fellow Mr. Mehanga Ram, a "Jat" by caste. He asked me to go with him to cut wheat during the wheat harvest. On that day the sun was very hot and it was very difficult for me to cut the wheat in the scorching heat. I prayed to God and requested him to give me some job. When I came home, on the same day my mother gave me an envelope. I read the letter which was my appointment letter in the Irrigation Deptt. My family got a big relief. With the blessings of my mother and God I joined the job and started work in Ambala. That was a very important day in my life.

After some months may be a year I was transferred to Bhatinda. I tried to do my work very honestly. One day a farmer came in my office and my immediate boss was on leave. The farmer asked me about his application for "mogha" (an outlet of canal). I gave him information and he gave me Rs.5 or 10 and asked me to take some sweets for my home. Those days my wife and my child Dev Raj had recently shifted from Shergarh to Bhatinda. I kept that currency note in my pant’s pocket. By chance I had to go to see a Picture in the cinema hall. My wife washed my clothes including that Pant. The way of washing the clothes was by first boiling the water after putting pieces of soap cake.

My wife so boiled and beat the pant with the wooden baton (Thappi) that with the result the currency note along with my own money got torn into pieces.

That was the first lesson to me that we should not take/accept money from any one except what we earn. On that date God blessed me with contentment of mind. From that date I began to believe that God was always by my side and helped me in all my tasks.

When I was in Bhatinda working as an Assistant clerk there was a news in the newspaper that for getting a permanent job we should apply to the Subordinate Services Selection Board, Punjab Chandigarh. I applied and passed the English type test. The aforesaid Board recommended my name for the post of clerk in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat, Chandigarh (Punjab Legislative Assembly secretariat) probably in 1957-58.

I worked as a civil servant in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretariat for about 39 years and retired in 1995 as Jt. Secy, next to the Secretary with the blessings of my mother, father, my superiors and subordinates, my colleagues, my brothers, my sister, my life companion, my children, my relatives, my friends, my nears & dears, my well wishers and above all my spiritual guru and Almighty God.