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Ashramas: The Four Stages of Life
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Ashramas: The Four Stages of Life
Grihasta: Householder/Married Family Life
Conclusion
- Time of giving, living, learning, and loving in family and community.
- To protect and nourish family members
- To teach children spiritual values
- To give in charity, and especially to feed holy people, the poor, and animals
- Today, as students, the concept of inner development, inner reflection, and understanding the relationships with the world often get lost
- Often, we focus on external excellence, subjects, grades, ranks, getting a job, and earning money
- But, we forget the importance of developing both external excellence and internal excellence - understanding ourselves and the relationship we have with the world around us
Vanaprastha (Semiretired): Hermit in Retreat
- Age Range: 50-75 years
- This is a time for shifting focus more towards more inner spiritual practices of meditation, contemplation, and prayer
- Relationships with grown children and community are more in the role of a matured mentor
- Lifestyle is more simplified, and the couple may retreat to a quieter place for deeper practices
Bramacharya: Student Life
Sanyasa:
- Lasts until age 25
- Period of formal education
- Primarily intended for fostering spiritual values and practical knowledge
- Focus predominantly was inwards while gaining the knowledge of the world
- Period of understanding the self, curbing the ego, understanding nature, his/her position in the world and the relationships with others
- To develop qualities of humanity, discipline, simplicity, purity of thought, cleanliness, soft-heartedness
- The elder person now retreats from active involvement in all worldly goals, seeking only spiritual goals in this final phase
- Renunciation of all desires, fears, hopes, and worldly attachments
- Total devotion to God with the sole concern of attaining moksha, or release from the cycle of birth and death
- No longer having political, professional, or social engagements, there is a further shift towards being an elder teacher of spiritual knowledge
Ashramas
- Ashram: a place of spiritual shelter
- The purpose for this life planning is to attain the direct experience of self-realization or enlightenment here, in this world, in this very life
- The Four Stages:
- Brahmacharya: the Student Stage
- Grihastha: Householder State
- Vanaprashta: Hermit Stage
- Sannyasa: Wandering Ascetic Stage
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