LIFE ON AUTOMATIC MODE
LIFE ON AUTOMATIC MODE asks a powerful question: Can life
become easier without becoming careless? Imagine a car moving
down a gentle slope—the engine is not struggling, the car is moving
almost by itself, yet the driver remains awake, hands on the steering
wheel, eyes on the road and foot ready near the brake. This simple
image becomes the central metaphor of the book. In LIFE ON AUTOMATIC
MODE, Dr. Abhishek Gilara explores how life can
develop momentum not through laziness, luck or blind faith, but
through alignment.
When karma is repeatedly performed according to dharma, discipline becomes habit, habit
becomes character, and character begins making right action easier. Health supports work,
learning improves judgement, reputation creates trust, family gives strength and spirituality
provides direction. The book explores the relationship between karma as action, dharma as
direction, discipline as the engine, self-control as the brake, awareness as the driver’s eyes
and faith as the peace to accept what remains beyond personal control. Through reflections
on business, health, leadership, family, attention, learning, responsibility and spirituality,
Dr. Gilara explains why the goal is not to eliminate effort, but to eliminate unnecessary
resistance. Why fight yourself every morning? Why recreate the same decision every day?
Why keep making choices that tomorrow’s life must repair? Build better defaults. Create
better habits. Protect your values. Do the right karma repeatedly. Then let compounding
begin. Automatic mode does not mean doing nothing; it means doing the right things so
consistently that they stop feeling like a daily battle. It means keeping the steering wheel in
your own hands while allowing discipline, values and past right action to create momentum
beneath you. Because life becomes heavy when your values, habits and actions move in different
directions—and surprisingly light when they finally begin moving as one. You are
still driving. You are simply no longer pushing the car from behind.
