& dislikes are just personal fancies and just imaginations. Nothing valid. A real challenging and exciting retired life is to explore such facts deeply. If real happiness doesnt depend on my fancy then what is the secret of happiness. So the beauty of a retired life is more in intellectual explorations of the fundamentals of life rather than some activity.
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Karma and Gyan are two tools bestowed by God to us. By karma we can acquire necessary thing but another very important realization is that all what we acquire by karma is perishable and can satisfy us only momentarily and nothing acquired by karma can ever remain with us permanently. Moreover all karma is directed by some beliefs, and that which is a matter of belief continues to rule the roost. So the field of knowledge & belief is not only fundamental but more permanent. On realizing the fact that there has been a funny game going on in life. First we create personal fancies, define likes and then pursue them to acquire few joyful moments of life which are progressively reducing in intensity. So why not explore these beliefs. There have been so many beliefs. That basically we need something. That whatever we need comes from outside. etc etc. The time of retirement is the high time to revisit these extremely important facts, so that, if at all, we made some mistakes then they can be not only corrected but also our childtren do not make the same mistakes we made. The retirement time should be one of completely dissociation from all our beliefs and visiting them afresh to realize the truth, rather than to keep passing our time in the same old format. That is the objective of Sanyas Ashram. Think.
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