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Freedom

atanu

atanu

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Premium Member
I stopped desiring anything from my job a decade and half back. Thereafter, the public life has been often a drudgery but I have tried to carry on in the mode of karma yoga — to shed off debt, if one can say that.

Now that my retirement from public job is approaching, I have started feeling relaxed.

If one has nothing to desire from this worldly existence then death will be the ultimate relaxation. No?
 
dingdao

dingdao

The eternal Tao cannot be told - Tao Te Ching
I retired 2 1/2 years ago and relaxation is overrated. You will need to find a hobby or have a major change in your social life.

I no longer have any idea of how our "dearly departed" pass their time.
 
sun rise

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
atanu said:
Now that my retirement from public job is approaching, I have started feeling relaxed.

If one has nothing to desire from this worldly existence then death will be the ultimate relaxation. No?
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Once the past life review is finished and before you get ready to be reborn, perhaps.
 
Jedster

Jedster

Well-Known Member
atanu said:
I stopped desiring anything from my job a decade and half back. Thereafter, the public life has been often a drudgery but I have tried to carry on in the mode of karma yoga — to shed off debt, if one can say that.

Now that my retirement from public job is approaching, I have started feeling relaxed.

If one has nothing to desire from this worldly existence then death will be the ultimate relaxation. No?
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Since you have only started feeling relaxed, you haven't yet discovered what complete relaxation is, No distractions.
So why not just groove on with Brahman and enjoy the view.
As you say:
That which is not uttered by speech, that by which the word is expressed, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this which is being worshipped.
 
atanu

atanu

Member
Premium Member
Jedster said:
Since you have only started feeling relaxed, you haven't yet discovered what complete relaxation is, No distractions.
So why not just groove on with Brahman and enjoy the view.
As you say:
That which is not uttered by speech, that by which the word is expressed, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this which is being worshipped.
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Yaa hoo.

That which is not uttered by speech, that by which the word is expressed, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this which is being worshipped
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
dingdao said:
I retired 2 1/2 years ago and relaxation is overrated. You will need to find a hobby or have a major change in your social life.

I no longer have any idea of how our "dearly departed" pass their time.
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I know several people who won't retire for this very reason. So married to their job, it would be as crushing as a divorce.

My hobbies are gardening, woodworking, writing, sadhana, and travel. Retired at 55. Work on my own clock, decide what I want to do. It does feel like freedom, of some sort.
 
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