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The state of old age is a beautiful phase, where the scope of whatever you could have done during your entire youth is completed, and there is ample scope for doing whatever you could not do during your busy schedules when you were young. Due to the hassles, anxiety, running around and the burden of responsibilities involved with an active work life, there may have been many important activities which could not be pursued. The state of life where you have ample free time to pursue those activities is old age. Reading spiritual books, attending spiritual discourses and undertaking various benevolent activities which could not be pursued while you were leading an active life, can all be fulfilled during this golden opportunistic period called old age.
Shri Shantichand Zaveri who was a pearl trader in Mumbai handed over his entire business to his sons at the age of 55 years and renounced the world with a firm determination to spend the remaining years of his life to attain his own selfrealisation. He took diksha, renounced the world at Sawarkundla and became the disciple of Gurudev Bhuvanbhanusurishwarji. He was renamed as Pujya Muniraj Shobhanvijayji Maharaj Saheb.
Even at the age of 87 years, we have observed his daily rituals very closely since the past few years. Though now he cannot travel extensively (vihaar) nor go outdoor for gochari, yet he continues to perform his indoor spiritual practice by reading scriptures, meditating and seeking happiness from the divine nectar of bliss, sip by sip. We feel embarrassed despite our young age, when compared with his awful gorgeous old age.
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