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The Rhythm of Life or the Art of Ageing

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
The science of ageing is being explored to find ways and means to not only prolong life but
also enhance its quality. In a sense, this quest is not new and is part of man’s larger quest for
Immortality. But there is also an art of ageing, to age gracefully and beautifully. This article explores
both these in the light of the spiritual dimension of existence.

you stop progressing, as soon as you cease to
better yourself, cease to gain and grow, cease to
transform yourself, you truly become old, that is
to say, you go downhill towards disintegration.

“There are young people who are old and there
are old people who are young. If you carry in
you this flame for progress and transformation,
if you are ready to leave everything behind
so that you may advance with an alert step, if
you are always open to a new progress, a new
improvement, a new transformation, then you
are eternally young. But if you sit back satisfied
with what has been accomplished, if you have
“There is one thing certain which is not clearly the feeling that you have reached your goal
stated here, but which is at least as important and you have nothing left to do but enjoy the
as all the rest. It is this, that there is an old age fruit of your efforts, then already more than
much more dangerous and much more real half your body is in the tomb: it is decrepitude
than the amassing of years: the incapacity to and the true death.
grow and progress.
“Everything that has been done is always nothing
“As soon as you stop advancing, as soon as compared with what remains to be done.

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