29. The Ultimate Retirement Plan
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Somebody once asked me, 'Please teach me some technique to stay healthy and live for a hundred years.'
Please understand, you need to first prepare your Being to live for a hundred years, then you can worry about your body! Otherwise, you will be living like the immortal crow in the story!
Awaken the feeling-connection to the knowledge of the enlightened ones; otherwise, your last years will be hell for you.
I can say, this is the best retirement plan. This is the ultimate retirement plan! Now you can relax. If you have not done this, no matter what retirement plans you create, you may end up seeing those beautiful retirement scenes only in advertisements.
I am seeing in this country (USA), all the retirement advertisements! 'See how ten million people are traveling towards safe retirement.' They show a photograph of a beach home and an elderly couple just relaxing and talking to each other. Please understand, only in photographs it will be great. Only in photographs it will be great. You may have money, you may have food, you may have health, you may have relationships, but what will you do? You will have nothing to do. You will not have expansion. You are not entertained, you are not engaged - what will you do? Then you will start brooding over your first thirty-three years. The first thirty-three years are all about fantasy, but now, even if your mind is ready, your body cannot cooperate. What do you do?
Only if you open the third dimension, the most subtle dimension of your being, you will have something to do. You will have more than just something to do; you will have ‘you’ for you.
If you have not prepared yourself, you will live in hell before you enter the next birth. So, prepare yourself - this is the ultimate retirement plan which you can give yourself. Share this knowledge with your kids. This is the best, ultimate gift you can give your kids - preparing them to consciously move away from wrong knowledge and receive right knowledge.
CONTEMPLATION
Today, contemplate this deeply: Unless I awaken the feeling-connection to the knowledge of the enlightened ones, my last years will be hell for me.
> Only if you open
> the third dimension,
> you will have
> ‘you’ for you.
SUTRA 8
Viparyayo mithyājñānam atad rūpapratiham||1.8|| Interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding.