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Move back in time to stay healthy!

Indian scriptures always promoted and prescribed four stages of human life: the age of students, the age of family, the age of simple living in the forests and lastly the age of seeking Nirvana theough austerities. 

As we became more advanced scientifically, we ignored these teachings and chased prolonged material gratification and longievity through artifitial means. This made us more dependent on the man made recipes of good health that took us away from nature.

I think it's time to reverse that. We must move back closer to nature and consume less. Infact in the book Ikigai, the authors mention a lifestyle that is simple, organised, social and close to nature. 

We have been straining the natural resources and depleting them really fast. This is giving rise to one calamity after other. Most of these calamities are manmade and triggered by mindless consumption fuelled by our limitless greed for more.

It's time we pause. It's time we look at and refer the wisdom of our ancestors and adjust life accordingly. We might be able to live more complete lives and also may be that mankind survives on this planet a little longer.

Let's pray. Let's inteospect and let's adapt. That's the only way to live happily.

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