Grihastha at 60 or AN Ode to Vanprastha
With 15 years of serious meditation in the Vipassana format behind me and having been eulogising the virtues of letting go of physical acquisitions, it must have been quite a fall for the natural forces around me when yesterday we moved into a new small hutment on top of a hill.
Picturesque or otherwise it certainly provides an ideal atmosphere to delve inside myself, And even though it may not be exactly convenient for my wife but she is loving it more than me.
Economically and from investment point of view it certainly does not make sense to have or expand a physical acquisition at this age but perhaps my progeny and her young ones will probably understand my deviation from what I recommend as ideal financial situation
Technically located at exactly 1000 metres above MSL at least at present it has an untrammelled view of the Doon Valley around it.
But it is true so many times we do things irrationally which normally would be considered in the range of human stupidity. However again the question arises that if one does not do such things then what does one spend on apart from charity; As a young entrepreneur told me some 16 years ago that how much can you drink and how much expensive car can you drive for how long?
With the children topshot busy in their own world and being unavailable for important milestones, the happiness and satisfaction is only partial.
Nonetheless let's see how far this goes and how much we are able to enjoy this...
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