When life is like a car navigating through life-changing experiences, it is vital to foresee and learn how to drive in balance so that stress doesn't take a toll and land you in trouble. When to push the brake or speed up is the master's game once he or she is in control. Find out how you can stay in control and not lose balance even for a minute. It's all within. Watch the video with narration of poem 'Life's a Car' followed by an excerpt of Shri Mataji's talk and Self-Realization by Shri Mataji.
Life’s a car.
Life’s a Car driving to its Destination
and we People are the Drivers
who must confidently take charge.
the Car starts with a Key
the Key to Life is the Soul
once entered it charges the body
and Life begins.
but in a hurry to see what’s next, we
push the Accelerator
and find Life taking a more frantic pace
soon too quick to control.
suddenly we realize that
we’re going too fast
so, we hit the Brake
to slow Life down
give us a little time
to take in the beauty and have joy
for what’s around us.
but there’s something to do
somewhere to be
more Important than all this
so, we launch right back
speed up the pace
get the Car running faster
and Life’s a frenzy again.
finally comes some time
to take a back seat
to relax, to settle down
and slow down our pace.
but…
the cycle continues
fast then slow
slow then fast
no wonder Life comes across as a pain, a
misery
and the Car? such a Driver
shouldn’t even be allowed to Drive
until he learns how to maintain
a steady pace.
if we don’t let any Car
go so wild
then what about Life?
all too soon we’d find
there was a wrong turn somewhere
we made a mistake, we
left behind Childhood to ‘grow up’
(are we really better off than little Children?)
left behind Joy for Action
(and was that really worth it?)
is it too late
or can we go back
make a U-turn or just pause
hit the Brake.
leave the Car, they say
get out and Distance yourself
Isolation, Renunciation, Asceticism is the
answer.
but I say
that may work for some, but
not for the Whole
for how do you find the Meaning of Life
by Leaving it?
we must learn to Drive properly
and then only can we be called the Drivers
the answer is not to give up Driving
it’s to Understand, to Realize, to Know.
let us return to the Key
the Car’s Key, the Life’s Soul
make sure we know it through and through
perhaps understand the inner workings of the
Car
that is, connect with our understanding of Life
of Nature
take some time to enjoy Nature
have Joy
stay in the present, doesn’t matter
what’s ahead or what we missed
maybe then we’ll be better Drivers
for when the Passenger of a Car
graduates to being the Master
when, caught up in Life, we finally
take control
Life stops pulling us; we lead Life
as the Master
of our Selves.
This poem was written in 2020 by Kabir Gupta.
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