The author's primary insight is of extreme meaningfulness: Every culture must confront the deterioration and death accompanying aging. How this confrontation has occurred in Indian culture has significance for understanding all cultures including contemporary advanced industrial cultures. The manner of aging is a cultural construct and there is a specifically Indian way of aging. That way is shown in this book through the analyses of key concepts - aging (jara), stages of life (asrama), time (kala), determinate deeds (karma), desire (kama), change (parinama), and rejuvenative force(vaja).
The author offers important transcultural insights into the realities of aging, disease, and inevitable death faced by all. The composite Indian religious tradition provides patterns for shaping the aging experience into a meaningful system of vital social values, ethical principles, and life goals. This analysis of the Indian approach provides significant clues for understanding aging in other cultures.
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