AGELESS WISDOM MODERN IMPACT

Kids are born,start growing up and then,before you know it parents are left alone gazing at the empty beds,the vacant closets,and the now useless clothes & shoes.There is a lingering  dilemma ,a void.  Something that most parents are faced with.Very soon.Because time is a jet plane and kids grow up in the blink of an eye.

My daughter is only 10 now ,but i am amazed at how a decade has flown past.In a jiffy .

Another decade,or less,and i would be re reading this post with doubled conviction.

Well we humans tend to cling on to our offspring lifelong,unlike the rest of the animal kingdom.

The ancient Hindus (more than 5000 years ago) had a novel discipline in place to handle the inevitable meandering changes of human life.They delineated life into very distinct stages,called Ashrams and each Ashrsam was ,in turn, meant for a specific function.The prescribed sequence was something like this:-

1.Baal Ashram (Infancy)

2.Bhramacharya (student life)

3.Grhast Ashram(married worldly life)

4.Vanprasth & Sanyas Asharm(older years for prayer,contemplation, meditation & self realisation)

So during the fourth stage(Vanprasth & Sanyas Asharm) the goledn years of life were dedicated to the most interesting task of life ;self realisation.That was the goal of human life,instead on incessant gazing back upon the glory of the past.For this ,older folks retired to the forests and ashrams to meditate and pray,and meet the Higher Self within each human being.