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Recieved: 2003/05/20 19:22
Subject: Re: [K-list] Re: To Meet a Yoga Master/stages of life
From: Druout

Charles writes:

>So it is a question of preparation and fate!? In Judaism they say one cannot
>study Kabbalah until one has reached a certain age, is married and has
>achieved a designated level of Torah observance.
>The Rabbis say that one
>wouldn't be able to comprehend let alone understand Kabbalah until such a
>time. Would be like teaching quantum physics to a toddler. Although I always
>suspected that, in part, this reasoning is 'designed' to maintain the
>ignorance of the masses and promote religious dogma.


Dear Charles, List,

I think it's interesting that in Hinduism, there are four stages of life
divided into 21 years each.

The first is Student, the second householder, the third ascetic or hermitage,
and the fourth renunciation or sage.

And it is only at the third stage that one begins to spend more time
seriously meditating. I wonder if it is not a question of secrecy, but of a wisdom
that one generally accrues with age and lifetime experience.

I wonder whether we in the West are pushing the envelope somewhat with our
serious meditating at an early age.

Just mulling! :))

Love, Hillary

Sources: http://www.hindunet.org/four_ashrams/
and
http://www.hindunet.org/quickintro/hindudharma/hindu_four_stages.htm


"The third section of twenty-one years, from ages forty-two to sixty-three is
the "Vanaprastha" or the hermitage phase. This is a time for return to
contemplation and for guiding society in the distance."

In the fourth stage:

" from sixty-three to eighty-four is the "Sannyasa" or renunciation phase.
The person, now an elder full of wisdom, inwardly aims to renounce all the outer
goals of life. He also becomes a teacher of the spiritual knowledge and no
longer partakes in social or political concerns.
In this we see that only twenty-one years are allotted for the outer duties
of life. Three-quarters of life is to be devoted primarily to spiritual study.
"
    


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