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Namah The Rhythm of Life or the Art of Ageing

creation moves forward. By giving our weaken up. It is time to totally discard them
solutions or advice unasked for, we may or take the last leap of transformation.
well hamper their growth. We can surely
suggest but never impose.

Therefore, it is a very useful and rejuvenating
exercise to sit with children and youngsters
and listen to them. People often complain that
youngsters do not sit with the elderly. It is not
quite true, at least the reason attributed to this
tendency is not true. Actually, most elderly
do not know how to engage with them. They
are quick to dismiss but slow to understand.
Engaging in interesting and meaningful The Mother’s example is the best that one
conversation with the next generation is one can find in recent times. At 70, She resumed
of the ways to remain young, one of the ways playing Tennis, at 77, She formed the Ashram
to keep our face turned towards the future. Trust so that She could concentrate more
It gives us a little peep into how the future and more on the real work of terrestrial
is shaping up. transformation that She was missioned for.
At 82, She opened the doors of the New
Another way to turn towards the future is Consciousness to several centres under the
to pick up something that one wanted to do aegis of the Sri Aurobindo Society of which
but could not take up because of paucity of She is always the permanent President.
time in young age. To rekindle interest in At 84, She dived deeper into the cellular
a hobby, to restart playing one’s favourite consciousness, leaving behind an amazing
game, to learn a new language, read a book document of several volumes describing
one had always wanted to read or to re-read the Yoga of the cells, something that was never
a favourite book, to visit places one could attempted before. And then, most interestingly,
not get to earlier, even to dream up new She initiates and inaugurates a unique and
projects or new ideas, even if one may not unprecedented city, laying the foundations
see them materialise in one’s lifetime are of an apparently impossible venture of a new
some of the ways to keep oriented towards township Auroville, at the age of 90. And
the future. within 4 years of this, at 94, She declared
about the New Body. She was always moving
For those engaged in yoga, it is a beautiful forward.
opportunity to intensify the aspiration and
perfect one’s surrender, to enter into ever The Deathless State
deeper and higher states, to work out certain
tendencies that one could not because they The world is a constant forward march and
were quite strong. Though with age there it is difficult for any individual, however
is a tendency for certain patterns to get progressive, to keep pace. In fact, it is one of
crystallised by habit, it is also true that they the causes of ageing and death as the Mother

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