Success in Life

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The Fourth Stage: Renunciation

 

At this time of life the only duty is to gather together one's mind

and place it upon the Supreme Being. That is the fourth quarter of

life, the sun-set period of one's life, when all your relationships

and connections are now coming to a close. At this time, your entire

mind should be fixed upon the Eternal, no more on the passing world.

You have fulfilled all your duties, and now you have to depart. The

river is reaching the Ocean, and a time will come when it has to merge

into the Ocean.

 

Here one's mind has become calm, steady and pure. One's heart is

desireless and free from all cravings. One is established in perfect

self-restraint and virtue. This idea state is the fruit of right

living. Here, one automatically becomes absorbed in the contemplation

of the Supreme and moves towards God-experience. He or she reaps the

harvest of a rich inner spiritual life, supreme peace and bliss,

obtaining that ultimate objective for which one has taken birth.

 

That is the goal to be reached. But now you are just beginning. What

must you do? How must you live? How should you manage a student life

satisfactorily? There are Twelve Keys to successfully managing a

student's life.