THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE

function effectively. In addition, with age the mind gets better with the enhancement resulting from experience. Man develops the capability of a deeper analysis and can make better assessments of issues and situations. Before, he was just an informed person, with age he becomes a mature and wise person. He can make judgements and give opinions with greater maturity and wisdom. He is now in a position to give suitable advice to others in a rational manner. An old person is a mature human being and due to his experience he has the power to provide positive and effective guidance to others. The greatest discovery for man is for him to discover his Creator. This discovery can occur at any and every moment, but in reality in his younger days man lives in heedlessness. He is only able to overcome this heedlessness when he reaches old age and when his organs start failing. This is the time of discovering one’s helplessness and this is the time for man to consciously discover his All-Powerful Creator. However, in reality due to his unawareness, man in his younger days lives in heedlessness and in his old age lives in complaint. In this way, man loses the period of strength and also loses the second period of his golden age. Old age is an age of maturity and wisdom, of knowledge and experience. It gives man the capability of superior reasoning and analysis. It increases his intelligence. The elder person is in a position to give others sound guidance and advise with wisdom. The elderly can be ‘giver’ members of society. If the elders were only to do one thing— write a book in which they relate their experiences in life—then every such person would leave this world being a ‘great giver’ to society. o