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Across spiritual traditions, age is understood as a stage of life with unique experiences and challenges. Many traditions converge on the idea that aging is a natural process that brings wisdom and spiritual growth. However, they diverge in their perspectives on the significance and purpose of aging, offering distinct views on its meaning and value.

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Achieve Brahman and overcome time. Transcend time and become one with the Eternal.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingAttainmentOneness
Bliss Divine, p. 462
The Eternal is beyond time. Brahman is timeless, an eternal reality that transcends time.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingTimeTruth
Bliss Divine, p. 461
Time is more precious than money, and more valuable than anything in the world. It's the greatest treasure, the essence of life. Use time wisely for spiritual growth, and don't waste a single moment.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingSinSoul
Bliss Divine, p. 461
I bow to the Guru whose twin lotus feet eradicate the burning pain of duality and who at all times delivers the seeker from every adversity.
HinduScriptureAdversitiesGuruSanskrit
Guru Gita 43
I understand morality, which is timeless and full of mysteries. It is the same ancient morality that is known to everyone, which is about being friendly to all and doing good for all creatures.
Tuladhara
HinduTeachingKnowledgeMoralitySanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 4422
The gods, with Brahma at their head, worship your benevolent self, O sinless one. You are everything. You are the creator of the gods and it was you who caused them to be created. Through your grace, the gods pass their time in joy and perfect fearlessness.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingBenevolenceDevotionSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 3471
And as Christ says in the Gospel, they will be amazed at that time, saying, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesize in your name, cast out demons in your name, and perform many miracles in your name?'
Jesus
ChristianScriptureMiraclesTime
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 213
Complete self-knowledge at all times is a gift of supramental gnosis, leading to complete self-mastery and perfect self-expression in nature.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingEnlightenmentGuru
The Life Divine, p. 1024
The Karma Yogi realizes Atma Jnana, or self-knowledge, over time. (Gita: Chapter IV-38)
Swami Sivananda
HinduScriptureKarmaKnowledge
Practice of Karma Yoga, p. 13
If you can prolong that period of bliss through spiritual practice, focusing on Brahman and preventing other desires from arising, you will attain a state of Samadhi.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingAttainmentLust
Mind — Its Mysteries and Control, p. 96
Whenever righteousness declines, I incarnate myself. I am reborn from time to time to protect the virtuous, destroy evil-doers, and establish righteousness.
Krishna
HinduScriptureRighteousnessTime
Bliss Divine, p. 39
God's grace is the ultimate help. You may try thousands of times, but nothing can be achieved without God's grace. One cannot see God without His grace. It's not easy to receive God's grace; one must renounce egotism completely, as one cannot see God as long as they feel they are the doer.
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
HinduTeachingAttainmentEgo
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 142
If they should say to him, 'If all this is contained in this city of Brahman — all beings and all desires — then when old age overtakes it or it perishes, what remains of it?'
HinduTeachingAgeBodySanskrit
Chandogya Upanishad 8.1.4
You will need to struggle for a long time with patience and perseverance to achieve this. For a seeker with unwavering determination and unshakeable resolve, nothing is impossible.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingAttainmentLonging
Practice of Karma Yoga, p. 69
It removes fear of death and time, destroys all calamities, and dispels the terror of spirits, demons, ghosts, thieves, and wild beasts.
HinduScriptureAdversitiesSoulSanskrit
Guru Gita 135
O Pārvati, the Guru protects the disciple from curses cast by sages, serpents, or even gods, and also from the fear of death and time.
HinduScriptureGuruOnenessSanskrit
Guru Gita 105
Knowing this, Mahidasa Aitareya said: 'Why do you afflict me with this, since I shall not die of it?' He lived a hundred and sixteen years. He who knows this also lives a hundred and sixteen years.
HinduParableFaithKnowledgeSanskrit
Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.7
The next forty-eight years are the third libation, for the Jagati has forty-eight syllables and the third libation is offered with the Jagati. With this the Adityas are connected; the vital breaths indeed are the Adityas, for they take up all this.
HinduTeachingSacrificeTimeSanskrit
Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.5
The next forty-four years are the midday libation, for the Trishtubh has forty-four syllables and the midday libation is offered with the Trishtubh. With this the Rudras are connected; the vital breaths indeed are the Rudras, for they make all this weep.
HinduTeachingSacrificeTimeSanskrit
Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.3
Initially, the psychic being can only exert a hidden, partial, and indirect influence through the mind, life, and body, as these aspects of nature need to be developed into instruments for its self-expression. As a result, it remains confined by their development for a long time.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingLongingMind
The Life Divine, p. 253