2. Message of P. Guruji

Message from Poojya Guruji

Sanyas Ashram

Sanyas Ashram is a very unique system in Vedic way of life. It is the final stage of human life, the fourth & final Ashram. What a beautiful and perfect way of life. First lead a dynamic and complete life and then as one retires from active life & responsibilities, they can sit back and objectively bring to their mind the right lessons of life and also its truth, not only for oneself but also to share the crux of their life to their beloved children in the best possible manner. Sanyas epitomizes the ultimate maturity of human mind wherein the person who has seen life in all its form and possibilities and is now free from all worldly responsibilities and desires by first-hand experiencing it all and also realizing not only its beauty & importance but also its impermanence. If there was that underlining faith in the existence of something permanent, some infinite divinity then obviously there shall be greater inquisitiveness to go into depths of what one always revered and believed in. The entire life has been a first hand live drama which has been intensely lived - and is now all just a memory. It is all gone, never to come back again - just like a sweet or maybe a bad dream. Many people with whom we had been associated closely are also gone and so are the ups & downs of life. Apart from the various experiences one more thing is pretty obvious, and that is the impermanancy of life. We always believed in something permanent, and now is the time to

explore that which is supposedly permanent.

The retired life of many people is one of relaxation, no responsibilities and even no aspiration. It is just living day in & day out, just eating, managing ones body and few home chores, and maybe following some hobby like gardening etc. and finally calling it a day. If at all your children or friends have time, they can call up and have some time together, otherwise it is just you with maybe some very close relative. People organize their retirement homes with basic ameneties and stuff it with basic things and then just watch the dates of calendar changing. Looks fine, but indeed nothing very exciting or challenging. Looks more of a recipe to pass time. Real excitement in life always came with some big goals and challenges. Physical actions and activities were only to help them fructify. If at all there are some real & worthy goals which are more to do with deeper understanding of life and directly experience something which you always sincerely believed in, then that would be the best way to make use of ones time when one is physically not that active. Real goals are always at the level of ones understanding and values.

The plan of retired life of a common man is more often motivated by the prevelent understanding that real joy and fulfillment is by getting things which we like and avoiding things which we dislike. So most of the people organize their retired life accordingly. Everything ready for all exigencies, so that they can ward off any incordialities. The prevalent understanding of joys & sorrows is by managing the life as per ones likes & dislikes. Joy & sorrow is defined as per that alone. That has been the belief throughout the life, and most of the time this is so even now. The truth is that the likes & dislikes of every person are different, which means that first we ourselves define our own likes & dislikes and thereafter keep dancing to their tunes. The joys extricated by following our likes slowly keep becoming monotonous, and after sometime do not give joys as earlier. The truth is that these likes