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 | | Vanaprastha, or retired life, is the third spiritual stage (asrama) in the varnasrama system. | | | "If the vanaprastha is overtaken by old age and because of his trembling body is no longer able to execute his prescribed duties, he should place the sacrificial fire within his heart by meditation. | | | "One in the vanaprastha order of life should always practice taking charity from others, for one is thereby freed from illusion and quickly becomes perfect in spiritual life. |
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| | Vanaprastha -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | A vanaprastha (from ((Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes) Sanskrit vana, forest, and prus, dwelling) is a person who is living in the forest as a hermit after partially giving up material desires. | | | Having by these means succeeded in overcoming all sensual affections and desires, and in acquiring perfect equanimity towards everything around him, the hermit has fitted himself for the final and most exalted order, that of devotee or religious mendicant. |
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| | Vanaprastha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A vanaprastha (from Sanskrit vana, forest, and prus, dwelling) is a person who is living in the forest as a hermit after partially giving up material desires. | | | It is the third in the four phases of a man, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and finally Sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life. | | | When the householder is advanced in years, when he perceives his skin become wrinkled and his hair grey, when he sees the son of his son, the time is said to have come for him to enter the third stage of life. |
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| | Dalam masa vanaprastha, diupayakan untuk melengkapi kekurangan-kekurangan bidang spiritual di masa sebelumnya yaitu masa brahmacari dan grhastha. | | | Vanaprastha tidaklah diartikan sebagai meninggalkan rumah lalu pergi menyepi ke hutan untuk bertapa, tetapi vanaprastha dimaknai sebagai hidup yang hening dan suci, sedikit demi sedikit melepaskan diri dari ikatan keduniawian, dan menguatkan pengendalian diri berdasarkan ajaran Agama Hindu. | | | Orang yang melaksanakan vanaprastha disebut vanaprasthin, hendaknya selalu menjaga kesucian dan kesehatan jasmani/rohani, banyak melakukan pekerjaan mulia, bijaksana, bersahabat, berbicara manis dan menyenangkan, melakukan sadhana, melaksanakan latihan-latihan kerohanian (yoga), melakukan berbagai "vrata" atau pengekangan diri, suka belajar dan bergaul pada orang-orang suci (Sulinggih), sering me-dharma yatra, dll. |
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http://www.iloveblue.com/bali_gaul_funky/artikel_bali/detail/28.htm
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| | Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha: Brahmacharya, Grihasthya, Vanaprastha, Sanyasa |
| | That also is the meaning of the apparently differentiated lives of the brahmacharin, grihastha, vanaprastha and sanyasin. | | | These are some of the traditional features of a spiritual life - the methods of the harmonising of the principles of dharma, artha, kama and moksha connected with the principles involved in the stages of the brahmacharin, grihastha, vanaprastha and sanyasin, all which commingle in a sea of comprehension which is the maintenance of God-consciousness. | | | It is a gospel, a treasure house which you can keep with you as a godsend, which will save you in every way for ever and ever. |
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http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/sadh/sadh_07a.html
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| | Vanaprastha ashrama |
| | Vanaprastha ashrama: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary III on Vanaprastha | | | Vanaprastha ashrama: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary II on ashrama | | | The natural process of maturing from childhood to old age through fulfillment of the duties of each of the four stages of life- brahmachari (student), grihastha (householder), vanaprastha (elder advisor) and sannyasa (religious solitaire)- in pursuit of the four human goals: dharma (righteousness), artha (wealth), kama (pleasure) and moksha (liberation). |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/vanaprastha_ashrama
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| | A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India by Swami Krishnananda |
| | The life of the Brahmacharin commences at this stage, when he is admitted into the protection and care of a teacher (Guru) for study of the sacred lore and other branches of learning that may be regarded as necessary to him from the point of view of the class of society to which he belongs. | | | The duties of life which meant a great value to the householder are relative to the phenomenal view of things and, while they are valid for sensory perceptions and mental cognition in the spatio-temporal realm, they do not reveal the Absolute which the soul hankers after and which alone can bring final satisfaction to it. | | | The periods of life of a person are those of a student (Brahmacharin), householder (Grihastha), hermit (Vanaprastha) and monk (Sannyasin). |
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http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/hist/hist_8b.html
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| | For spiritual advancement, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa. | | | Now you prepare yourself for the remaining days of your life for spiritual culture." That is called vanaprastha. | | | Sannyasa means he should distribute spiritual knowledge from door to door. |
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http://www.prabhupadavani.org/Bhagavatam/text/561.html
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| | The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article |
| | He also takes the sacred vow to utilise all his accumulated wisdom experience in the cause of the society. | | | CCORDING to the Hindu view of life, the entire life span can be divided into four ashramas: Brahmacharya, grihasthya, vanaprastha and sanyasa. | | | ‘When a householder finds that his skin has turned loose, his hair has grown grey and his son too has been blessed with a son, then he should, invariably, take to vanaprastha (literally, leave for the forests)’ |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020818/spectrum/main2.htm
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| | The Mahabharata, Book 12: Santi Parva: Rajadharmanusasana Parva: Section LXVI |
| | By honouring those that are righteous and deserving of worship and protecting those that have (by their penances) acquired it knowledge of self, a king, O tiger among men, attains to the object of the Garhasthya mode of life. | | | That king who gives unto persons leading a Vanaprastha mode of life and unto Brahmanas versed in the three Vedas attains to the object of the Vanaprastha mode of life. | | | That king, O son of Kunti, in whom no virtue is wanting, that foremost of men, O Yudhishthira, is said by the learned to be a person in the observance of the Vanaprastha and all the other modes of life. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mb/m12/m12a065.htm
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| | Satiated with the world, a man turns to the spiritual aspects of life in the Vanaprastha ashram. | | | Ashram refers to a stage or phase in the life of a "twice-born" Hindu (see Upanayanam). | | | Instead, he seeks alms from householders and spends his time meditating, in an effort to achieve salvation (see Moksha). |
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| | Kundika Upanishad |
| | Then (at the end of the householder’s life) he shall kindle the sacred fire (for renunciation) bravely and perform a sacrifice lasting a day and night in which Brahma, etc., are the deities. | | | One reaches the stage of forest-life (Vanaprastha) after having maintained the sacred fire (as a householder). | | | Then after dividing his property among his sons in the proper way and giving up all sensory pleasures, he shall journey along sacred places as a Vanaprastha. |
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http://www.geocities.com/advaitavedant/kundika.htm
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| | The prime duty of a brahmachari is to serve the Spiritual Master with strong Vaishnava faith and without duplicity. | | | "Our Maths are being built at many places, and many sannyasis, vanaprasthas, grihasthas and brahmacharis are living there all the time and receiving the opportunity to learn spiritual conduct. | | | Amat parah anyatha na chavet - those who are not my devotee [amatparah], they should not invert or violate the order or live without it, varnashramatita.. |
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| | Women And Sannyasa |
| | Ofcourse there can be some exceptional rare cases when an extraordinary and greatly advanced woman in bhakti can accept the brahmacharya and sannyasa ashramas and make a success of her spiritual life. | | | I am very sorry to inform you that there are some Indian ''Swamis'' in this country who are living with so-called ''Swaminies,'' but so far we are concerned we follow strictly the Vedic principles. | | | "There are no ashramas acceptable by women other then the householder (grihastha) ashrama or in specific cases as per time, place and circumstance the vanaprastha ashrama. |
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http://www.hare-krishna.org/printthread.php?Board=HareKrishnaNews&main=130&type=post
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| | There are four varnas (social divisions)--brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, and sudra--and four asramas (spiritual divisions)--brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa. | | | Actually, this word "Hindu" you'll not find any Vedic scripture. | | | I have repeatedly said that people call us Hindu in India. |
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http://www.salagram.net/hindu-ism-origin.html
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| | VNN Editorial - First Female Diksha Guru |
| | One reason for wanting to leave home was to give up family attachment after age 50, like Shrila Prabhupada has requested of all of his male grhastha disciples, and I didn'tthink that I would be able to do this while living with or traveling with my wife. | | | Gandhi kept returning to family life for some time evenafter wanting to give it up, and finally had to take a firm vow of vanaprastha. | | | First of all, I am just a spaced-out klutz. |
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| | The sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas were means by which the people's occupations according to their orders of life (namely brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa) could be purified. | | | Regulated knowledge involves a gradual raising of the living entity to the spiritual platform, through varna (brahmana - intellectual, kshatriya - ruler, vaishya - merchant, shudra - worker) and asrama (brahmacharya - student, grihastha - family, vanaprastha - retired, sannyasa - renounced). | | | To simplify the process of understanding and performing vedic rituals, Vyasadeva (the empowered incarnation of Krishna) divided the one Veda into four, |
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http://www.dharmakshetra.com/literature/vedas/veda.html
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| | The third twenty-five years as vanaprastha were spent in service to humanity – the children are now grown up and you have less responsibility and you can do more social and charitable work. | | | We see many renunciates, leading the life of a sanyasa, yet serving the community with their spiritual teachings. | | | Gruhastashrama is considered the foundation of the society, as it is responsible for the other three stages with children going through brahmacharya, parents entering vanaprastha and the sannyasis who have given up the world to teach humanity. |
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http://www.htccofkc.org/silvernet/four_stages_of_life.htm
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| | VNN Editorial - Vanaprastha Or Divorce |
| | While Urmila prabhu may have many faults which disqualify her from becoming a Diksha guru (she should not be one) the real problem is with the person who nominated her to this position. | | | Is there not a law in the GBC books that says that no divored persons can hold a responsible position in ISKCON if the divorce took place after a certain date (1989?). | | | Vanaprastha doesn't require the interference of the legal fraternity and division of property etc. Also in Vanaprastha the wife is still with the husband and under his protection/control and not living independently. |
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| | Hindutva Series : Hindu History - A Search for Our Present in History |
| | According to the Hindu concept, life was divided into the four stages of Brahmacharya (childhood and celibate youth), Grihasta (householder), Vanaprastha (householder who has begun his quest for spiritual pursuits) and Sanyasin (a person who has given up wordly attachments in search of spiritual quest). | | | In the first stage of Brahmacharya, Hindu children were sent to ashramas and gurukulas (monasteries for imparting education) to get well versed in the Shastras (Treatises on various sciences). | | | The two practices came to be looked upon as essential for earning the praise of the lords of Heaven. |
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| | VANAPRASTHA (THE TRADITIONAL HINDU NAME FOR RETIRED LIFE) |
| | article is to describe the vanaprastha in spiritual terms. | | | As mentioned above Vanaprastha is the traditional Hindu name for | | | Married life), Vanaprastha (the retired life) and Sanyas (the |
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| | LookSmart - Directory - General Guides to Hindu Ashramas |
| | Describes the brahmacharis' scholasticism, the grihasthas' pragmatism, the vanaprasthas' spiritual seclusion and the sannyasis' transcendence. | | | General Guides to Hindu Ashramas - Research the attributes of Hinduism's four ashramas - grihasti, brahmachari, vanaprastha and sannyasi | | | Access an overview, with text and scanned images, of Hindu's four life stages, which include brahmachari, grihastha, sannyasi and vanaprastha. |
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| | ISKCON REVIVAL MOVEMENT - No.62 - IRM Singapore Expands Into Historic Building |
| | Although the wife remains with the husband, she undergoes severe austerities and penances so that although both husband and wife live together, there is no question of sex. | | | Thus the GBC should nominate a Vaisnavi who at least satisfies their own qualifications for a bogus Guru to increase their unauthorised Guru program. | | | By not being aware that in the vanaprastha stage the wife is still supposed to remain and follow her husband, she is guilty of not exhibiting proficiency in knowledge and understanding of sastra (scripture). |
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| | They Accuse Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura - Srila B.V. Narayana |
| | Then, after some time you should enter the vanaprastha asrama, and those who want to directly come from brahmacarya can also take the renounced order sannyasa from there. | | | Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura established a matha in Mayapura, and from there his mission spread all over Bengal. | | | First one will have to be a brahmacari, and after that, if he is married, he should be a vanaprastha, and after that a sannyasi. |
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| | The Four Asramas in Hindu Dharma :: Paganality.com :: (yes, it's magik :) |
| | After discharging all the duties of a householder, he should retire to the forest or a solitary country place and begin to meditate in solitude on higher spiritual things. | | | A Sannyasin should not seek again the joys of the householder. | | | The practice of the four Asramas regulates the life from the beginning to the end. |
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| | A release from the Vanaprastha said that vocal recital by Savita Sreeram will be organised on August 1 at the Bhuvaneshwari Hall of Sree Sadasiva Pyramid Meditation Centre. | | | Vanaprastha will start Nadabrahma Gana Sabha at Vadavalli and the inaugural event will be held on August 1. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004080110040300.htm&date=2004/08/01/&prd=th&
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| | Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , The |
| | When one dieth in the woods while leading the Vanaprastha mode of life, he maketh his ancestors and the successors, numbering ten generations including himself, mix with the Divine essence.' | | | A learned man should adopt the Vanaprastha mode of life after performance of the necessary rites, when he hath been able to control his appetites for enjoyment and desire of acquiring valuable possessions. |
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| | Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Vanaprastha is gradual detachment from the material world, ostensibly giving over duties to one's children, spending more time in contemplation of the Divine, and making holy pilgrimages. | | | Finally, in sanyasa, the individual goes into seclusion, often envisioned as the renunciation, to find God through detachment from worldly life and peacefully shed the body for the next life. | | | Grihastya is the householder's stage, alternatively known as samsara, in which one marries and satisfies kama and artha within a married life and professional career. |
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| | Sword of Truth Archives -- Samskaaras in Hinduism - Part 4 |
| | He/she starts spending more and more time on spiritual deeds to realize the idea of detachment. | | | This samskaara is performed at around the age of 75 to celebrate the departure from the Vanaprastha Ashram. |
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http://www.swordoftruth.com/swordoftruth/archives/byauthor/aniruddhaavanipal/sihp4.html
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| | BANGLAPEDIA: Ashrama |
| | Brahmacharya: After the sacred thread ceremony (Upanayana), the young boy was assigned to a guru to study the scriptures. | | | Vanaprastha: At the mature age of approximately fifty, after completing most of his duties as a family man, generally after the birth of grandsons, the man was supposed to retire to a forest and pass the time praying, worshipping, serving guests and living on alms. | | | Ashrama the order(s) of human life prescribed by Manusmrti, which is also known as Chaturashrama. |
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http://banglapedia.net/HT/A_0329.HTM
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| | In the present time there is no need to go to secluded places and one must build his own house on the basis of Vanaprastha and Sanyasa Ashrma. | | | The writer says that it is 50 years of age. | | | This is as per the Indian way of living the life span of 100 years when one becomes eligible to enter the Vanaprastha Ashrama. |
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http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/02sep13/mail.htm
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| | Random Thoughts for an Er-in-Law School |
| | When children were educated and able to earn a living and start a nuclear family of their own, parents detached themselves from the children and traveled in quest of spiritual wisdom and peace. | | | Another fear women have is that the son may not support his parents financially or may not take care of them when they are old and not able to take care of themselves. | | | But he should be able to live on his own in case you suddenly drop dead. |
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| | The Hindu : Need to Indianise the RSS |
| | Considering its interest in Hindu philosophy, the RSS leadership must be aware that according to the theory of asramas, the 75th year in one's life is the end of vanaprastha and beginning of sanyasa which means complete detachment from the affairs of the world. | | | The occasion was marked by a number of statements directed against minorities, especially Christians, by the RSS top brass, many of whom are as old as the Sangh itself. | | | The RSS is turning into a super-cop, not only defining patriotism and nationalism but also determining who the patriots of the country are. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/10/23/stories/05232524.htm
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| | He should attend to those fires to which he had attended as a householder. | | | Having studies the scriptures called Aranyakas, having drawn up his vital fluid and having retired from all worldly affairs, the virtuous recluse may then attain to absorption with the eternal Soul knowing no decay. | | | The third part of his life (from 50 to 75 years) he should pass in the observance of the Vanaprastha mode. |
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http://www.hinduism.co.za/ashramas.htm
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| | Chinmaya Mission - Programs |
| | Training programmes are conducted from basic to advanced courses giving the participants inputs on scriptural texts, yoga, finance management etc. The aim is to help them to withdraw from worldly life and progress towards the life of detachment with the ultimate aim of getting liberation from world of samsara. | | | Central Chinmaya Vanaprastha Sansthan (CCVS) is a scheme administered by C.C.M.T. to give training to the vanaprasthis assisting/training them to change their role in life from grihasthas to vanaprastha ashram. | | | The inmates are engaged in spiritual pursuit like sadhana, giving discourses, taking part in Mission activities like Balavihar activities etc. |
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| | Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavana |
| | Krishna has shown me the naked form of material nature, By His strength it has all become tasteless to me today.” | | | As a vanaprastha dressed in white Srila Prabhupada would daily take darshan of Radha-Raman and Radha Damodara. | | | He would often sit in front of Gopala Bhatta Goswami’s samadhi. |
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http://www.naturalnirvana.com/Braja-Mandala/Braja-Spiritual/Srila-Prabhupada.htm
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| | Il progetto impegnerà circa 100 milioni: attualmente e’ stata costruita la prima parte del piano terreno, con un costo di circa 35 milioni. | | | Il progetto coinvolge 5 villaggi della zona: La costruzione del centro salute di base ha lo scopo di portare l'assistenza medica nei villaggi dove non hanno la possibilita’ ne’ i mezzi per mantenere condizioni di salute precarie. | | | Vanaprastha e’ un ente caritativo gestito dal padre camilliano Cherian Puthenpura. |
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| | After grhastha there is vanaprastha and then sannyasa; brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. | | | For social upkeep there are four asramas, namely brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. | | | The ksatriya have got three asramas: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, no sannyasa. |
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| | In the area surrounding Vanaprastha there are 18 villages each with between 100 to 250 families. | | | For them, being at Vanaprastha signifys “living”, to find a home and the love of a family. | | | Adjacent to the Alessandro Sinatra Centre a medical centre has been built which offers medical assistance to the children of Vanaprastha and the people from the surrounding villages who have no form of health service. |
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| | If a brahmacari is going to marry, or if a vanaprastha gives up his old wife and wants a new one, it simply means that lust and so many anarthas are present in his heart and his activities. | | | If you are grhastha, remain in that position and be ideal, like Srivasa Pandita, Sri Advaita Acarya, the Pandavas and many others like them. | | | We are all naturally part of varnasrama, and we should therefore try to accept and very strongly follow its principles. |
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| | “Vanaprastha Onlus” commits itself to send to the Giver the card of the boy, of the group of children adopted, of the welcome centre, of he health care centre and of the school after the first payment of the Giver. | | | For all the projects "Vanaprastha Onlus" will periodically send information about the boy, or about the group of children, or about the progress of the welcome centre, of the health care centre and of the school. | | | the present form, together with the copy of the 1st payment, has to be sent to Vanaprastha Onlus” P.za Pastura,7 –28921 Verbania - Italia |
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| | Sutradhari - By Mylavarapu VenkateswaraRao. |
| | There is a similar verse in Varahamihir’s Brihat Jatak, which, translated into English reads, as under. | | | If the strongest Grah be conquered in planetary war by another Grah, or Grahas at the time of birth, the person will relinquish that stage of ascetic life and review to his previous condition of life.” A Vanaprastha is a religious man, engaged in the practice of rigorous and devout penance (i.e. |
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| | This third stage of life is called as the Vanaprastha. | | | The third stage of life must be passed in the service of the nation, and community and for the welfare of the self through gaining of knowledge. | | | Meaning : a) Inspired for the self-upliftment and knowing the comforts of heaven, knowledge sages have been engaged in the penance. |
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| | This stage begins when a person has discharged his family duties and when his children are in a position to look after themselves. | | | Are you in a position to slowdown, to withdraw and spend more time in mentally satisfying and spiritually uplifting task? | | | Remember Vanaprastha is not an escape but a kind of retirement. |
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| | Yoga Malika - Portal of Peace & Happiness |
| | It is said in the Vedas that everyone must go through four ashramas or stages of life -- brahmachari, grihastha, vanaprastha and sanyasa -- and the final one through which one attains moksha or reaches the Lord is sanyasa. | | | In the olden days, the people started brahmacharya at a very early age of five to 10 years. | | | A person could enter vanaprastha when the organs were reasonable intact. |
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| | They were said to owe three debts: study of the Vedas (owed to the sages); a son (to the ancestors); and sacrifice (to the gods). | | | The three original ashramas were the chaste student (brahmachari), the householder (grihastha), and the forest-dweller (vanaprastha). | | | To the three classes were added the Shudras, or servants, after the Indo-Aryans settled into the Punjab and began to move down into the Ganges Valley. |
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