Life-A Maturity

Life-A Maturity

Growth of age is maturity at all levels of the body-mind system.  Life of child passes into adolescence. Life and experience of adolescence passes into adult. Life and experience of adulthood passes into middle age. Life and experience of middle age passes into old age. Old age comes as a milestone, a deciding crucial stage of life.

What one has lived whole life is coming into consciousness? Whole life is being remembered.  Evaluation of whole life starts very fast. The life has to come to end. This reflection is shaking. This shaking starts a new vision, a maturity of beyond life.

As soon as vision of beyond life comes to the fore, maturity starts. This maturity comes out of fear of death and takes very deep hold on life. It is progressive and ever lasting till life ends. 

 Old Age – A Maturity

In Relativity To This World and Beyond.

Old age is a mirror, reflecting many things.

<   First reflecting maturity of body, which is inevitable.

<   Second, maturity of mind, which is subtle body, and

<   Third, maturity of ‘Beyond’ body and mind.

Maturity of first and second is inevitable. Maturity of ‘Beyond’, both body and mind is one’s “Earning”. It has to be earned individually. Those who have earned it in younger age can feel old age in a different way, smoothly, peacefully and blissfully.

Old age reflects the society. In India still elderly people live in families. They need not to make abode in Old Age Asylum Center.

Family, which an old people make in their younger age – the habits the ‘Conditionings’, the working pattern of life taught to children, by themselves, clearly reflects upon the aged people.

I shall like to talk upon separate.

1.    For those who are growing old - 55 years of life to 65 years.

2.    For those who have become old of different age groups - 65 to 75 years and beyond 75.

3.    Preparation of Death – and inevitability, for those who are growing …Old – 55 years to 65 years of life.

 One moment of life passes into another moment by itself, spontaneously. One day passes into another day…into days…into weeks…months and years… accumulating years and culminating in to old age of life. One Zen Haiku says –

‘Sitting silently, doing nothing,

Spring Comes,

Grass grows by itself.’ 

A life lived with understanding and love with children and society develops wisdom (Pragya) to live.

This can be earned only through love; patience and dialogues with concerned ones.

In mad race for becoming madder to keep pace with society, is becoming destiny of Modern Cosmopolitan India. In rural and smaller cities of India, life is different of aged people. Still there is a dialogue between younger and aged people, out of love and respect for children. But Television, Films, Newspapers and Magazines are changing the scenario. They are also invading the thinking pattern of rural mind.

I am a grown up man of 55 years. After 50 years I started feeling otherwise. Talking with a friend who was 5 years senior in age, he told me that it was an affect of age. Don’t worry; I am feeling this, he said.

I being a doctor, living with rational and analytical scientific pattern of mind, started close observations regarding things happening inside and out side.

Old age happens itself naturally at the level of body i.e. physical. We lack preparation for old age. We talk of activities not of life. Life is both activity and inactivity and beyond.

We live, love and prepare for only activities. We throw much light and enlarge in all spheres of life only activities. Old age can’t withstand only activity. This a major problem when one becomes old but his habits and ways of working force him for a life ‘full of activity and excitement’. This he can’t manage. But mind forces him to be otherwise.

I observed that my adaptability and acceptability to technical things have gone down. I started feeling that I should avoid them and don’t exert for them.

Once while driving car in back gears, in absence of the driver I was irritated. My elder son guided me and we had not a good dialogue at that time. But later I came to feel that he out of love; had a discussion with me. Lo and behold I followed his instructions and I got the knack of driving efficiently in back gear but with little more strain. Initially I was not ready to put more energy. With learning to put more energy in this age, I got the key to learn technical things like computer, cell phone etc. I thanked my son who out of love and affection had given me careful instructions. Now I am happy with this attitude. Let us first accept advice with love then had a discussion with satisfaction with the well-wishers and finally try to live up with satisfied way, though a new one. I accept my physical limitations as well.

My life has changed, just because the attitude towards life has changed.

I am preparing my body and mind for last twenty-four years for coming and growing years of life. Preparation in the form of exercise: walking, food habit as per natural demand of my body. Since 1980 I am going into meditation – active and passive both.

From July 2001, I am going into ‘Samyak Samadhi’ regularly and doing my job as well.

Now I have taken voluntary retirement from govt. service with effect from June 2003 and regularly performing as ‘Acharya’ in ‘Oshodhara’. I conduct three days ‘Anand Pragya’ and ‘Samadhi’ programs as per the schedule and design given to us by our Guru ‘Acharya Trivir’(Osho Siddhartha, Osho Shailendra and Osho Priya).

Old is definitely a Gold.

Gold’s pride when used.

When used Gold’s pride enhanced.

Pride of user is also enhanced.

 

Old age when given pride,

Pride of Humanity, Society Family enhanced.

 

Family without aged people, is empty,

No depth, less experience, only disharmony.

 

Harmony comes with old.

Novice, Childish or grown up maturity not sufficient.

 

Old is always Gold.

Gold needs no introduction.

Only need is needed.

Pride is needed.

 

Pride of old, Brings Pride of Family, Society and Country.

Harmony comes, to individual and in groups.

Pride returns with harmony to humanity at large.