That is the reason, we saw some very young people (even some very rich girls) becoming saints at very early age at this year's Kumbh Mela. But that also needs a lot of courage and understanding the true meaning of life from a very early stage, which is rare
Let me cite two examples--Mahatma Buddha & Sant Kabir.
Kabir belonged to a poor family and Buddha was from an affluent family. For Buddha to renunciate was easy, and understandable, because when you have accomplished everything on a material plane, then you naturally saturate.
Human psychology is so designed that we value something we do not possess. The moment when we accomplish something it becomes trivial for us.
But contrary to this, when you do not have material possessions, you are still not lustful or greedy will require high consciousness to call it trivial. Kabir calls these materialistic things trivial despite living in poverty.
Both are on the path of enlightenment but one is informed by saturation and the other by consciousness.
What we call happiness changes 360 degrees once enlightened and that is different from happiness orientation in our material life. If you ask a teenager he will say happiness can be truly experienced in sexual intercourse, if you ask a person in their 40's he will say financial freedom and material possessions. If you ask an old aged person, then he would say health. Put simply, in different age brackets, your requirements are different, so as the happiness orientation.
But happiness is different altogether, and happiness is informed by our consciousness, that is why happiness is the state of being, not a state of doing.
Thank you.
Jai Jagannath.
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And to cultivate that consciousness is not simple, the sooner we do, the better it is.
Yes through regular mediation, swadhyaya, samyak shruti, etc.
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