A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam : 5.4 - Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================ Thursday, 21 Sep 2023. 05:30. Chapter - 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma -4. . =============================================================== A time comes when we feel that it is not necessary for us to expect anything from the world. It is not that the world cannot give anything to us, nor that we cannot take; but it is not necessary to take. We can become so mature that we are contented within ourselves. The contentment has matured into the ripe fruit of permanent experience, and then we live a life of what is generally called retirement. The life of retirement is not an idle life of sleeping; it is a further advanced state above the Grihastha, where the energy conserved and the potency that is inside is totally oriented towards a higher aspiration. The Grihastha does not have time to always sit in meditation, though he has to do that also for a certain prescribed time. But now, in a period where we