Our activities include herbal gardening, yoga, human library and crafts for residents. These will make them well engaged and assist them to be more active.

To quote Swami Tejomayananda that the art of Leaving – ie leaving the world of dependency on objects and relationships is when

1. The Elders can take care of themselves and others too. It is where People take care of People.
2. They have not arrived into uselessness. It is positive phase of Life. They have arrived into becoming supportive of and useful to society.
3. Aging is not decaying; aging means maturing for the inward journey;
4. It is in fact the age of non-dependency on things or beings and on the ego.
5. It is the birth into empowerment.
6. It is the age of resilience – not delving into the past and worrying about the future.
7. Just continue and be and remain steadfast in the pursuit of spiritual knowledge.

Hence “Vanaprastha is the creation of unencumbered time, regardless of one’s physical age. It is a time for freeing oneself from ambition-driven action as well as burdensome relationships and desires. It is a time when the Jiva begins the path of unlearning his fifty or sixty years of material dependency and attachments.”

Vanaprastha is the choice we make.