Re: IS AGE AN ISSUE?!! WHY DISCOURAGE US YOUNGSTERS?
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
satay writes,
I can't be sure but let's think about this for a minute... If everyone wanted to renounce the world...what will happen to the society structure? There are after all four stages of life for a regular joe like me. I don't know about other parents but I can say at least for my father that he will not be happy if I decided to pull the 'buddha' on my family tonight.
I see your point. You also inform us that there are 4 stages of life so there is order in society and people can come and go as their evolution ( dharma) unfolds.
Now, let me offer another view - I would be with glee if every one renounced the world at least 1 time each day , but I would prefer 3 times a day.
What's this you talk of yajvan ? That would cause havoc in the world!
My thoughts are simple and are of the following notion. When one performs their sādhana (properly) they're renouncing the world , they are giving it up (yajña¹ to the Supreme. They are giving of 'me' the limited for Being, unlimited.
So where is the renoucing? It comes with one's meditation ( or other upāya¹ when one quite naturally experiences pratiprasava i.e. returning to the original state. At that point all is given up, all duality is consumed and left behind. One is in Union with pure awareness (Being).
It doesn't matter which station (āśaram - halting place; stage) one is in life , male or female, which vārna. All are welcomed to experience their true nature and core of their own being.
One needn't go to the forest unless compelled to do so.
praṇām
words
- yajña यज्ञ - act of worship or devotion , offering , oblation , sacrifice
- upāya उपाय - that by which one reachges thier aim; techniques, method, approach
- pratiprasava प्रतिप्रसव - return to the original state ; counter-order , suspension of a general prohibition in a particular case
Last edited by yajvan; 31 March 2010 at 01:01 PM.
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