After the rise of globalization, the traditional Indian social system started changing rapidly. People's hopes, aspirations, and dreams, as well as their reasons for grief and worries also changed. Due to liberalization, people started having more money than ever before, and since money is for spending and investing, both ways the money started flowing in lavish purchases and investing in newly emerging profitable sectors. The economy started getting a boost like never before. At the same time, relationships also started changing rapidly. Families became smaller. People became more individualistic. The intimacy and closeness people felt before about family and society started decreasing. As the divorce rate increased, family feuds grew bringing overall discord, and the number of elderly men and women admitted to old age homes also increased. The overall chaotic scenario caused a kind of unrest in overall society. This was a new world and the questions posed by this world were also new, and since philosophers did not work as hard as they should have to find answers to them, this generation did not get a philosophy of purposeful living. We can see the possible consequences of this in the present.
Times have changed now.
The challenges elders face are different because social and family norms have
changed. The pace of life has increased more than ever. The young generation
has also started dreaming independently. They are more eager to handle business
and situations in their own way because the old methods do not suit them. So,
to avoid misunderstandings and disputes, those who are now approaching the age
of 55/60 need a new and consistent philosophy of
life, to get a new hope of living, and to be able to spend happily their last
days as they wish in a new direction, systematically leaving controls to their
successors. Those who have seen the pre- and post-liberalization era needed to
remove the mental confusion that occurred in this new world.
There is no shortage of
books today that tell how to plan financially for old age, but there was a need
to go beyond that and give a philosophy that guides how to spend old age in
spiritual happiness to feel fulfilled while following hobbies and choices and
living a worry-free and enthusiastic life while distributing the knowledge,
skills and expertise with whatever possible monetary help and/or service and
warmth they can provide to the needy sections of society. This most important
task has been done skillfully by Dr. Sanjay Runwal's book ‘HOW TO LIVE LIFE?:
SBOP LIVING FOR LIFE AFTER 55/60’. This book is noteworthy and unique because Dr.
Runwal has put forth his practical philosophy through a well-thought-out and
self-invented scientific theory.
Happily, this book is
neither spiritual nor a guide to financial planning. The author does not claim
to be so. This book is written keeping in mind real life. Although this book is
written keeping in mind the upper and uppermost middle class and high net worth
individuals, it also guides the individuals of the middle class and the not-so-well-off sections who have reached the age of 55/60. Everyone can adopt the
path suggested by Dr. Runwal by changing it to fit their own situation. The
philosophy is flexible and every person from any group of society can adopt it
by adding self-defined goals and ways of their choice to achieve them. This way
book becomes a useful guide to all sections of society as everyone belonging to any
segment of society can implement it to live a happy life after reaching 55/60
years of age. It is everyone’s inner need to live a purposeful life that can
provide happiness and a sense of fulfillment. The author suggests
that those who have not achieved financial stability by that time can also
follow the path of SBOP living to some extent or even a little later. If
someone reads this book at a young age, they can plan for their later years in
advance. This book provides the most needed practical guidance and philosophy
for everyone in today's hostile and chaotic world.
SBOP stands for
Systematic Blow Out Plan! This systematic blowout not only belongs to blowing
money on oneself, but it also belongs to the systematic blowout of earned
wisdom, knowledge, skills, and expertise on society to make the world more
beautiful and harmonious. Dr. Runwal has invented and coined unique
terminologies to theorize his philosophy. This book intends to make our society
more social than individualistic. Rather it offers the means through which one
can attain the most sought personal joy while caring for the overall society.
This is the most beautiful philosophy we the Indians were waiting for that
gives a practical roadmap to overall happiness. This is for the society that
needs to be transformed into a melodious song. The books guide us to the future
where the later years can be spent in purposeful engagement to complete the
untouched things one always dreamt of. The message of this book is that all
activities should be guided toward self and society-oriented tasks to find a
purpose in life.
This is why Dr. Runwal
strongly believes that society as a whole should be harmonious by creating a
happy individual, and a happy family, and by doing good deeds for others to
make a happy society. But the great feature of this book is that Dr. Runwal
does not become a philosophist for this but presents his philosophy from a very
practical perspective.
Modern sociologists
complain that the challenges facing today's dynamic world are different and
that people are rapidly becoming individualistic and their social orientation
is decreasing. But where was the philosophy to address the emerging challenges
before the generation on verge of the retirement? In such a situation, Dr.
Runwal convinces us of the need to live for oneself, for one's family, and for
society, at least after a certain age. This book provides a philosophy that
helps achieve a balance between being social while they are
individualistic.
And this comes out from
his personal experiences and experiments he conducted on his life. After
retiring from a flourishing business, to find a new purpose for his life, he
conducted many experiments on himself, and from that the philosophy of SBOP was
born. He developed this philosophy scientifically combining many aspects of his
theory together most cohesively and convincingly and has presented it in detail
in this book. This is why this book is a valuable guide in the era of
globalization.
A must read and to be
implemented philosophy- SBOP Living!
-Sanjay Sonawani
HOW
TO LIVE LIFE?:SBOP LIVING FOR LIFE AFTER 55/60
Author- Dr. Sanjay Runwal
Published by- Sanjay Runwal Foundation, Pune.
Price- Rs. 499/-
