Center Peace – May

Safety through Spiritual Life-Skills is a Brahma Kumaris Initiative dedicated to the United Nations Decade Of Action For Road Safety (2011--2020).

In the decade ahead the UN is asking the world’s citizens to take constructive actions to assure we are safe on the roads. But our outer actions are the manifestation of our inner state of awareness. So the Brahma Kumaris propose to support this UN Decade of Action for Road Safety with a Decade of Awareness for Road Safety: Safety Through Spiritual Life Skills.

Spiritual life-skills are principles of outer action based on higher levels of inner awareness. The connective strand between inner awareness and outer action is straightforward and crucial to creating lasting change: as is our awareness so is our attitude; as is our attitude so is our vision; as is our vision so is our action; and as is our action so is our world. So if we want to take action for road safety, we must first attend to the proper awareness for road safety.

So if we drive and walk on our roads with a high level of जागरूकता of the value of life, then our रवैया will be alert to the responsibilities of driving and walking on busy roads and to the need for caution and care. If our रवैया is responsible and careful then our दृष्टि will be peaceful, patient and loving. With a दृष्टि शांति की, patience and love, our actions will reflect that: • We will see the whole of the situation around us --- the pedestrians on the side of the road, the drivers in front of us, the drivers behind us. We will sense if they are in a hurry, distracted, or falling asleep at the wheel. • We will slow down to accommodate them, come to a full stop at lights and crossroads, and signal to let others know what we are doing. • We will make sure we are fully awake when we drive; and we will not allow phones or conversations to distract us; When we act in these ways then our roads will become safe places to be, and all of us using the roads will find ourselves living in the awareness of the preciousness of life.