28. Ageing Gracefully
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If you move naturally from level to level in your life, you are a complete human being, you will live as a fulfilled being. It is called ageing gracefully. If the third part has not happened in your life - feeling connected to the words of the enlightened ones - the higher level of the knowledge has not opened up in your consciousness. Please be very clear, if this has not happened in you, you will be in depression in the third part of your life. That is the worst thing can happen to a human being!
When you are completely tired of both the lower levels of knowledge, but have not found a way to open yourself to the third level, your life becomes a living hell.
The Vedic civilization has done a great service to humanity by awakening the highest level of knowledge in every human being. The Vedic civilization is structured in such way that if you go through the first and second levels, the third level of knowledge will be automatically awakened in you. This happens because the pratyakṣa and the anumāna are both related to āgama, the words of the enlightened Master, so there is no conflict anywhere. By the time you cross sixty-six, you don't have a problem sitting in meditation, in contemplation, because you have been prepared for it during the first and second parts of your life.
The first-level knowledge and second-level knowledge are constantly guiding you to the third-level knowledge, so you live gracefully and you age gracefully.
If we want to avoid this serious problem of the elderly committing suicide, the one and only way is awaken the third channel. This is the greatest service you will do to yourself and to the world.