¹Dr. Gaurav Aggarwal,²Dr Mahesh Hemadri,³Dr. Arvind Mathur,⁴Dr. Srishty Singla

¹Public Health Expert, Founder and Chairman Jagatmitra Foundation, New Delhi

²Family physician, Global Hospital and Research Center, Mt. Abu, Rajasthan

³S.N.Medical college, Jodhpur

⁴MBBS, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi

Empirical data says that older age group people are more content in their lives rather than the younger ones. Assumptions about retirement connected with stress and morbidity continue to flourish despite tons of empirical contradictory data. The perpetual mismatch between theory and certain empirical data is one of the things that has led us to believe that we sometimes erroneously project midlife values, activity patterns, and expectations onto old age. Rajyoga being taught by Brahma Kumaris at world spiritual university is a unique spiritual education which facilitates the individual to realise true potential of uplifting one’s self-identity or Awareness. The dimensions of life and spiritual knowledge allows the person to enlighten himself to experience the golden era where enlightened individuals called as angels live having higher consciousness and live in an environment of perfect order. This spiritually transcending experience is timely selective to all the individuals, irrespective of caste and creed and religion because the age undergoes transition, and the world has to move towards a better life.

Spirituality, Dimensions of life, Retirement, self-identity, Self-identification, Self-awakening, Self-Enlightenment, Selfrealisation, Ego, Self, Transcendence, Self-acknowledgement.

1) Thesis of Annekatrien verbraak msc psychology university of Canterbury new Zealand gerotranscendence an examination of a proposed extension to Eric Erikson’s theory of identity development....page 12 ,19,22. Year2000...gerotranscendence and characteristics of Gerotranscendence.

2) Wadensten B, Carlsson M. - The theory of gerotranscendence as applied to gerontological nursing.

3) Reed PG. Toward a nursing theory of transcendence

4) Liang J. Components of a meaningful retirement life--a phenomenological study of the 1950s birth cohort in urban China. J Cross Cult Gerontol. 2011;26: 279-298.

5) Wang J. A structural model of the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual factors influencing the development towards gerotranscendence in a sample of institutionalized elders. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2011; 67: 2628-2636.

6) Weiss T. Personal Transformation: Posttraumatic Growth and Gerotranscendence. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 2013.

7) Mc Carthy VL. A new look at successful aging: Exploring a mid-range nursing theory among older adults in a low-income retirement community. The Journal of Theory Construction and Testing. 2005; 15: 17-23

8) Krause N. Stressors in highly valued roles, meaning in life, and the physical health status of older adults. Journal of Gerontology Social Sciences. 2004; 59: S287-297

9) Braam AW, Bramsen Inge, Van Tilburg TG (theo.van.tilburg at vu.nl), Van Der Ploeg, HM, Deeg DJ. Cosmic transcendence and framework of meaning in life: Patterns among older adults in The Netherlands. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

10) Liebermann MA, Tobin SS. The Experience of Old Age: Stress, Coping and Survival. Canada: Harper Collins. 1983. Due to the limitations of the study, very little references are available.

Volume 05 Issue 09 September 2022

There is an Open Access article, distributed under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits remixing, adapting and building upon the work for non-commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.