Retired life

 At some point of time, we all retire.

Most of us retire from physical & professional activities, either by some man-made rule, or nature's rules…

Premature retirements abound.

Those who happen to be healthy, have a choice of how-best to utilize their retirement.

Psychiatrists prescribe only-what-they-were-taught. ( most of their suggestions hover around mind games, and as a consequence, its positive effects on aging physical frame).

Desi way of looking at withdrawal from “routine” life, coincides only at one point with modern minds. That age-of-retirement 😜 ( how to handle ‘post retirement’,  differs almost diametrically 🙏) which is agreed as 60.

Ancients said “it is   middle age, 120 is a cycle...... Now pursue spirituality,  and seek the purpose of life, your birth and reach moksha( salvation, liberation, ultimate freedom)".  Forest was an ideal place for mature and wise ones at their middle age🙏…. ( today, we relocate closer to a multispeciality-hospital, with 24/7 facilities.  This decides the “direction” of our mind. Zero scope for deep abstract truths, related to “basics of life itself”. Anyway,  no point extolling the “merits” of modern lifestyle. I was intending to share my experience and the perspective thereof🙏)

By 60, when the very(ancient) design-of-lifestyle 

would-have ensured a minimum-basic-level of spiritual wisdom ……

60 is a ripe stage to explore deeper into past 60 years & farther past,  using super-scientific techniques like “synthesis”( a very poor substitute for sanskrit term samyama)... 

This exploration process, if performed under certain controlled conditions of a mind, can afford a deeper level of virtual-reality, by which the strong kaarmic-residues of past & far past, can be conclusively-dissolved. 

That conditioning of “mind” being very crucial, the ancients decided upon vanaprastha as a most-feasible option 🙏….

Away from routine( civilized society), so easier to break stubborn addictions to some routine! Alertness is ensured by the very ambiance of a forest (😜)

Equipoise of mind, is ensured by vulnerability of mind being consciously tamed, after realizing the fact that other fierce life forms( in that dense forest) react violently to a disturbed/turbulent/prejudiced mind😜… Yes… even a street dog “looks” , reads and decides how-to-react…. )

Thus, a reasonable ‘silence' descends into a person and unresolved past resurfaces by itself 🙏….

The mind, with an emotional equipoise…… carefully +responsibly uses the available “sense of discrimination” at a “never-before-level” of depth and clarity!  ( first 60 years of stringent disciplined adherence to that “Hindu way of life” would have polished the rarest-tool called ‘sense of discrimination’. Once the body gets abandoned, this discrimination-ability is unavailable 😔😰…

Hopefully, a person who makes use of all the 4 stages of life to its fullest extent ( vanaprastha being the 4th & final,) gets liberated 🙏…. Obsequies weren't possible for a forest dweller(😜…. A question, that doesn't-even-occur to “modern- sanatanis” 😳🙏🙏) …. Anyway, forest-dwelling wasn't  a thoughtless stupidity🙏…. I just wanted the minds to consider this!

( my previous blog, “life, as it happened”..... happened to have its consequences on my own psychology 😜…. Undigested memories lying as stinking residues started resurfacing a bit leisurely…. And I could “deal with it” being-now-armed better with ripened maturity of a mind trapped into an aging body! I couldn't hold-back my experience…. If for no other reason, I avoid ending up as a BRAHMARAAKSHAS! 🤣😜🙏🙏)

re-tyred (for) yours,

psn (6 May, 2024)