Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ashrama Dharma - Stages In Human Life

Brahmacharya (As Student) Study and acquire some degree, skill or expertise in some field that is in harmony with your inner disposition. 
Grihasthsharama (As a householder)Marry, rear children, perform your responsibilities towards your parents, wife, children, relations, friends, organization, society and world in general. Treat all life as sacred and be philanthropic. 
Vanaprastha (As a retiree)Evaluate and review what you have done so far. Have you completed your obligatory duties towards you family and relations? Are you in a position to slowdown, to withdraw and spend more time in mentally satisfying and spiritually uplifting tasks? Remember Vanaprastha is not an escape but a kind of obligatory retirement for a higher cause. 
Sanyasa (The last phase)This is the phase of complete withdrawal. You have seen it all. You have enjoyed your life. It is time you sit and relax, you reminisce, and look at life as if in a film and draw into yourself your attention and your thoughts. It is time to wake up the God in you.

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