"Married life and being a householder will not bar your way to Realization. Look upon the wife and the children as a sacred trust and serve them in that spirit. Prepare yourself for celibate and spiritual discipline from the age of fifty. The five senses have to be mastered by the time five decades of your life are over.
The conclusion of six decades means that you should have conquered the six foes of man: lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hate.
When you are seventy, you must become ready to merge with the seven sages, seven seas and seven colours of the solar ray; that is to say, you must be far, far above mundane desires and ideals, and as near the point of mergence as possible through sadhana.
Eighty must see you in line with the deities that preside over the eight cardinal points, which are more or less Divine in attributes and characteristics.
Ninety takes you, or rather should take you to the realm of the Nine Planets and into the realm of the Super.
When man reaches the hundred mark, living out ten decades, he must have mastered the ten senses, the five senses of action and the five senses of knowledge and have become wisdom incarnate, with no trace or action or the consequence thereof, or the desire for it.
He and the Absolute are One and indivisible! All this is about the Padyatra, the pilgrimage of life.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(S.S.S. Vol.Xl)
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