How to Age with Grace and Wisdom in the Fourth Stage of Your Life
<p>Ancient Indian tradition views old age as the pinnacle of a lifelong rising of fulfillment and happiness, ending in spiritual liberation — not a long, steady decline into decrepitude and death.</p>
<p>In ancient India, this is called the four stages of life, or the four asramas.</p>
<p>It’s fun to party in the first half of life with loud music, plenty of spirits, and the excitement of sexual desire. That’s normal and necessary for a young person. But in old age, the music gets quieter; sexual desire turns into a deeper kind of love, and alcohol into a deeper kind of spirit.</p>
<p>Deepak Chopra (77) has a wise concept of aging — his four stages of life, based on the ancient Indian tradition of the four asramas as briefly described here.</p>
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