Lessons in traffic jam

A TATA ACE small truck was stuck in the middle of the road on my way back to home. The front of the van was stuck into a boundary wall and on the back was a slope, so driver was trying to take the truck backward as truck was loaded to its capacity it was pushed forward again because of the slope and the load. It was hitting and causing damage to the boundary wall in front. This vehicle caused a big traffic jam as my car was in the front as I could witness the whole drama.

People around got this idea of getting together and pushing the truck back so that it could cross the slope on the back. We all pushed the truck backward and after few unsuccessful attempts people started looking for other solutions. Suddenly I got an idea. To overcome the impediment caused by slope behind the rear tyres, I started placing the bricks in from of the tyres. So as truck moved little back these bricks stopped it from moving forward again. In few rounds of this brick dropping the truck actually crossed the bigger slope behind. Everyone including me got a sign of relief and traffic moved forward.

So what’s big deal into this whole matter?

There are revealing aspects which stuck me as I drove away from the jam!

I realized:

1-“Boundary wall in front and big slope on the back of a loaded truck”

Is actually like we in our life, load in the truck is the responsibilities that we carry. Boundary in front is the conditioning and boundaries created by our mind and slope in the back is the tendencies and negativities that we carry in life. Because of these tendencies and boundaries the truck of our life gets stuck at times.

2- “We all pushed the truck back and with few unsuccessful attempts”

We apply efforts in our life to fight with the situations and try to come out of it and generally effort only does not work!

3- “Bricks stopped it from moving forward again”

Same means which was as impediment, which was a stopping the truck from moving backward when applied from opposite direction it solved the problem. Same tendencies and negatives in our life when used in other direction actually becomes the catalyst of growth for our life.

And this is how I see Guruji is transforming our lives by devising the techniques which gets us out of the imaginary boundaries, limitation and tendencies created by our own mind.