<!--QuoteBegin-Ashok Kumar+Jul 2 2008, 06:57 PM-->QUOTE(Ashok Kumar @ Jul 2 2008, 06:57 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Many people, unfortunately, remain "teenagers" even in their ripe old years.
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That reminds me of an essay I had read of Rajneesh during college days (when I used to read Jiddu K and Rajneesh). He said in it, how some people just bypass the natural process of mental/spiritual ripening. They are like fruits which although ripe from outside, but still having unripe seeds, just fall off the tree when time comes. He said in Hindi we have a separate word for such - bachakaanaa (kind of 'childish' though in a different sense). Whereas others ripen from both inside and outside by honestly undergiong the process of natural maturing. (he counted Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave in this bachkaanaa category, who remained spiritually childish even in old age)
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That reminds me of an essay I had read of Rajneesh during college days (when I used to read Jiddu K and Rajneesh). He said in it, how some people just bypass the natural process of mental/spiritual ripening. They are like fruits which although ripe from outside, but still having unripe seeds, just fall off the tree when time comes. He said in Hindi we have a separate word for such - bachakaanaa (kind of 'childish' though in a different sense). Whereas others ripen from both inside and outside by honestly undergiong the process of natural maturing. (he counted Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave in this bachkaanaa category, who remained spiritually childish even in old age)