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Why cant the older and younger generation get along? Sadhguru discusses solutions for generational clash.

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Q: The older generation and the younger generation seem at odds today. How do we
make sure that the experience of age and energy of youth work together?

Sadhguru: They have always been at odds, not just today. The real
problem is, the older generation does not think it is old; the
younger generation thinks it is old enough. Essentially, someone
is occupying the space you want to occupy. It is not just among human
beings. If you have observed wild animals, especially among elephants, you
will sometimes see a young bull elephant rampaging all over the place,
angry, pulling everything out, because he had a fight with the bigger male in
the herd. That guy is not vacating his space, so this guy tries to fight. But he
doesnt have the strength yet, so he freaks adolescence!
This is why, in Indian culture, we created

Today, the parents

do not go, they want
the children to go. If
the children have
found their legs in
the world, they want
to go anyway. But if
they have not found
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what is called varnashrama dharma. That

means from zero to 12 years of age, it is
balavastha or childhood you just play,
and the body and brain should grow.
From 12 to 24 is brahmacharya time to
bring discipline into your body and mind
and develop your energies so that you are
a powerful being. At 24, if you see
through life as you are and you do not
have to go through everything, you
become a sanyasi. Otherwise, you become

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they have not found

their legs, there will
be a clash.

a householder and get married. If you get

married at 24, after two solar cycles or 24
years, you are 48. That means your
children are getting to that age where
they are like the young bulls, they want
you to go but they cannot say it.

So, at 48, the couple took sanyas and went different ways. The husband went
into one institution, the wife into another, and they worked on their spiritual
sadhana for twelve years. At 60, they came out and once again got married.
Today, they do not go away, they are still together, but they are still getting
married at 60. No, you are supposed to go away for 12 years. The first time
when you married, compulsions of the body, emotion or something else may
have taken over. Now, all those things are over, you have done your spiritual
sadhana for 12 years, and you come together in a completely different way
and go into vanaprastha. You go into the forest to live the last part of your
life.
Today, the parents do not go, they want the children to go. If the children
have found their legs in the world, they want to go anyway. But if they have
not found their legs, there will be a clash.

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People believe they are parents and children because of emotions. But when
it comes down to life, it is just a young bull and the big bull clashing for
space and dominance. Men do it one way, women do it another way. But the
fundamental problem is the same you want your space, they are not
vacating the space, so clashes will happen. Children who live away always
love you. If they are with you, there is always a clash not because you are
bad or they are bad, but because you need one kind of space, they need
another kind of space. If both are in the same space, heat happens. Unless
you have children who have grown very old when they are young such
people will live very compatibly with old people. Or if you become sick, then
the emotion of wanting to take care will come in. Otherwise, there will be
clashes.

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This is not a new problem. I am sure the same problem existed between the
young and old for the caveman. How do we handle this? The old should learn
to keep stepping back. The young will keep occupying that space. And the old
should display a certain level of wisdom and experience, where the young
are a little overawed by the old. If you do not do that, then the young will
disdain, and they will get rough in so many ways. As you get old, if you have
earned a certain level of wisdom and insight into life, which the young are
yet to earn, they look up to you. Then, you can somewhat be in the same
space you are on the first floor, leave them on the ground floor looking up
to you.

Editors Note: In the ebook, Inspire Your Child, Inspire the World, Sadhguru
answers probing questions, discussing the state of modern education and the need
to inspire a child to reach his or her true potential. Download now.

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In this culture, you not only have the freedom

to choose your god, but to create the sort of
god that you can relate to.

Sadhguru
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