If someone takes retirement and then feels unengaged and disoriented what should they do?

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because they don’t know what to do till now I was working as somebody is telling me do this, do that, now what do I do the nature of the mind and more often than not in the spiritual condition stage that means I need some support some push, some target which has to be given by someone other than me so to be self-motivated is not very easy and that’s why when there is no external pressure then it is very difficult to commit oneself there is an educational system where there is absolutely no exam at all the students will have no tension but the students will have no impetus to study also communism and all that, everybody will get the same reward no matter how much work you do but the people say I don’t work at all so then it led to dysfunctionality so we have to find out that if I don’t have any external motivation now then I have to create self-motivation or I have to come with a group of people who will give me some motivation so Ishta Brahmapada says that generally it is very difficult to give up something unless you get something better if I give up one job, why would I give up that job unless I am getting a better job but when it comes to retirement you may think but then the point is that during our relaxation time the mind works overtime therefore we may have to find some solid reasons for that so in the spiritual understanding of life in the retired order and after the non-solid order these are meant for more focused connection we are responsible in this world so we have a thriving community here there are many services in the temple if you associate with the devotees regularly and based on your inspiration you can take up some solid things which will engage the mind and give it a sense of fulfilment and not just retire and do something constructive so on a moment to moment basis if the mind is ups and downs you will be there but if you have some overall goal that this is what I am going to do so it can be educational you can study the scriptures and learn the Bhagavad Gita or you can come and take up some responsibility in the temple or whoever is there who is retired if there are no external forces creating goals for us then we have to create this for us and we may have to take help from someone so that we create it now is the time for me to rest but we live in a very passionate world and having lived for many years in a passionate world our mind is still passionate so even if we feel I want to rest now the mind will not want to rest and then at that time the mind starts going into negativity if I am not doing anything constructive then the mind starts doing something destructive the mind will start finding fault with this person this is like this, this is like that so it starts finding fault with people around us with the world around us so it is better to be constructive