Lucky by chance or by choice?!!

I have always wondered what is luck. is it something something that happens by chance or by choice? I see luck as the meeting point of your desire and destiny. when you desire something and the same thing happens in life , you call it luck. Right? can you choose to be lucky or not? if you accept life as it is and attain the maturity to be non judgemental and see things and events as they are, then you are okay with whatever is! whatever that is happening is neither good nor bad. it is as it is! In this state of mind, your desire and the destiny are not different from each other. Either everything appears special or everything appears the same. You are neither depressed with failure nor overly elated with success. When you fail you become more focused, when you succeed you are filled with gratitude. When something is achieved and everyone feels you did really well, your hard work really paid off, you will look back and say - Well that wasn't too difficult, I did not put too much effort in it either. But still it happened so smoothly. How come? when this wonder dawns, there is immense gratitude, because until someone points it out to you, your achievement is just another event in life. For some one who is looking at your life from outside, you are a very lucky person or a very dedicated person or an utterly inspiring personality. But for the so called achiever, it is just normal. When I look at the achievements of Guruji or some of the ART OF LIVING teachers, i am amazed at their creativity and productivity. but speak to them, its normal for them. When i spoke to one of them a few years ago and said - in just five years we have reached nearly a million people, wow!! He looked at me and said in the next five years, we have to reach at least a billion!!! He was in a totally different plane. People speak about achievement beyond capacity, but Guruji says there is no achievement beyond capacity, because if it was beyond capacity, how did you achieve it in the first place?! Valid point. It is only that people's comprehension of capacity or capability is limited or relative. For someone what I have achieved is great. For me it is nothing or it is something but not something magnanimous. But I look at someone else's achievement and say great!

But sometimes the immensity of your achievement dawns on you especially when you become aware of other people with similar or even better capacity and talent struggling to make it happen. This can either end up in a sense of ego or in a sense of utter humility. You feel humble because you realise you have achieved something easily in spite og being deficient in talent as compared to your fellows. You also realise that it did not happen because of your so called focus, hard work or any such character, but because it was bestowed upon you as a gift. This realisation fills you with such an enormous gratitude, that you feel thankful for all those who supported you in your path. you are filled with so much love that you make heartfelt wishes for one and all. I feel that this is what Grace is. Grace is probably a combination of gratitude and blessing. Guruji says if you shed one tear or gratitude, all the angels assemble in that place and rejoice. That is why if you wish for something to happen in gratitude, it turns out as a blessing. And probably this is how Grace flows in life!!

So how rich you are depends on how many tears of gratitude you have shed in life! Because it is only in that state that demands drop and fulfilment arises. So Lucky by chance or choice?