A Drive with the Master – What it’s Like

Living with the Master

It was just an ordinary day. I was at the wheel driving through the stretches of forests and farms with Sri Avinash and Prema, on our way home from an outing. I say it was an ordinary day, but you know, there is no such thing as an ordinary day when you are living with the Master. 

The canola fields were bright yellow against the blue sky and we all sat silently enjoying the drive. 

Gently I would turn the steering wheel this way, then that way around the meandering country roads, just loving it. Just loving the drive. Just loving the fields, loving the warm breeze, loving the pine trees in the distance. You know one of those amazing drives where you just feel so perfect, so happy and so peaceful? I was having one of those.

I saw the wildflowers dotting the sides of the road—daisies, poppies and foxgloves—how I loved them I thought. A smile never left my face and everything I gazed at I simply adored. 

My heart was so full!

I just felt so beautiful.

“How do you both feel?” Master Sri Avinash asked after some time, a cheeky boy-like grin lighting up his face. 

Prema and I glanced at each other with surprise.

“What did you do!?” We replied in unison, the penny dropping for both of us that our experience on this beautiful drive was not simply your average nice drive through the countryside. Our Master had been up to something!

“Well…” he beamed, “I was just infusing the Great Compassion to the world,” he said, eyes still sparkling with the joy of it.

“Woahhh!” We couldn’t believe it!

“Could you feel it?” He asked.

“Feel it!” I exclaimed, “Oh my gosh it was incredible! My heart feels like it is bursting with love.” 

“Look at the people” Master Sri Avinash motioned pointing out the window. “Look how happy they all look.” 

As we drove past the park and the cafés of the main street we couldn’t help but notice that all the faces we saw looked so carefree and soft. People were just going about their day with a sense of deep contentment and peacefulness about them. It was beautiful to witness.

“See,” Master Sri Avinash said nodding in their direction, “they all felt it too, they just don’t know it.” We all giggled to ourselves as we shared this sublime secret. 

You know the stories of Santa Claus and his Christmas elves, delivering gifts in the middle of the night for all the children to wake up to a wonderful surprise? That’s how it felt in the car that day. We giggled with delight, knowing all the joy his gifts would bring to the world. But this is no fairy tale, this is just another ‘ordinary’ day with our beloved Master.

Devika Visintin