Looking Young

"All of us wish to look younger.  No one likes to be called an old man.  Everyone wants to be like a young boy.  One becomes old through too much involvement with the senses.  All the desires in the mind are satisfied through the senses, therefore the body becomes weak and old.  To satisfy the mind, we misuse the senses.

Baba says, "I am sixty nine and I wear no glasses.  I can see a tiny ant at a distance.  I am sixty nine and have no white hair.  I am sixty nine and have all my teeth and can even bite a nut.  My blood pressure is normal and my weight is the same for the last fifty years."

But we are not like that.  Baba says our senses become weak because we misuse them. Baba is ever young because He never misuses His senses.  Baba says that His blood pressure never rises even though He may shout.  He shouts or scolds only to correct a person.  He pretends to be angry.  The motive is love.  But in our case when we are angry we want to finish off the fellow.  Our ego is affected and therefore we become angry."

(From the book "Divine Directions" by Prof. K. Anil Kumar)