Achieve Brahman and overcome time. Transcend time and become one with the Eternal.
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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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The Eternal is beyond time. Brahman is timeless, an eternal reality that transcends time.
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.
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.
यदङ्घ्रिकमलद्वन्द्वं द्वन्द्वतापनिवारकम् । तारकं सर्वदाऽपद्भ्यः श्रीगुरुं प्रणमाम्यहम्
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.
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.
Complete self-knowledge at all times is a gift of supramental gnosis, leading to complete self-mastery and perfect self-expression in nature.
The Karma Yogi realizes Atma Jnana, or self-knowledge, over time. (Gita: Chapter IV-38)
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.
Whenever righteousness declines, I incarnate myself. I am reborn from time to time to protect the virtuous, destroy evil-doers, and establish righteousness.
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.
And if they should ask: 'If all this is gathered within this city of Brahman — all beings and all desires — then when old age overtakes it or it perishes, what is left of it?'
तं चेद्ब्रूयुरस्मिꣳश्चेदिदं ब्रह्मपुरे सर्वꣳ समाहितꣳ सर्वाणि च भूतानि सर्वे च कामा यदैतज्जरा वाप्नोति प्रध्वꣳसते वा किं ततोऽतिशिष्यत इति
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.
It removes fear of death and time, destroys all calamities, and dispels the terror of spirits, demons, ghosts, thieves, and wild beasts.
कालमृत्युभयहरं सर्वसङ्कटनाशनम् । यक्षराक्षसभूतानां चोरव्याघ्रभयापहम्
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.
मुनिभिः पन्नगैर्वाऽपि सुरैर्वा शापितो यदि । कालमृत्युभयाद्वापि गुरू रक्षति पार्वति
Knowing just this, Mahidasa Aitareya said [to his illness]: "Why do you afflict me, one who will not die of this?" He lived a hundred and sixteen years. Whoever knows this lives a hundred and sixteen years.
एतद्ध स्म वै तद्विद्वानाह महिदास ऐतरेयः स किं म एतदुपतपसि योऽहमनेन न प्रेष्यामीति स ह षोडशं वर्षशतमजीवत्प्र ह षोडशं वर्षशतं जीवति य एवं वेद
Now the next forty-eight years are the third pressing, for the Jagati meter has forty-eight syllables and the third pressing is set to the Jagati. The Adityas are joined to this portion. The pranas are indeed the Adityas, for they take up all this.
अथ यान्यष्टाचत्वारिꣳशद्वर्षाणि तत्तृतीयसवनमष्टाचत्वारिꣳशदक्षरा जगती जागतं तृतीयसवनं तदस्यादित्या अन्वायत्ताः प्राणा वावादित्या एते हीदꣳसर्वमाददते
Now the next forty-four years are the midday pressing, for the Trishtubh meter has forty-four syllables and the midday pressing is set to the Trishtubh. The Rudras are joined to this portion. The pranas are indeed the Rudras, for they make all this weep.
अथ यानि चतुश्चत्वारिꣳशद्वर्षाणि तन्माध्यंदिनꣳ सवनं चतुश्चत्वारिꣳशदक्षरा त्रिष्टुप्त्रैष्टुभं माध्यंदिनꣳसवनं तदस्य रुद्रा अन्वायत्ताः प्राणा वाव रुद्रा एते हीदꣳसर्वꣳरोदयन्ति
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.
In the Kali age, however, people reach the end of worldly existence simply by singing the praises of Lord Hari.
भव बंधन ते छूउअहिं नर जपि जा कर नाम, खर्ब निसाचर बाधेउ नागपास सोइ राम