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In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! The aged bridal couples who took part in today's Bhīma Ratha Śānti festival were filled with joy. You must recognise the inner meaning of giving it the name ‘Bhīma Ratha Śānti’. ‘Bhīma Ratha Śānti’ does not mean that you should be mighty and sturdy like Bhīma. Bhīma is the son of Vāyu, the wind. The power of the wind is without limit. It can go anywhere. It can do any work. It can win victory on every side, in every way.
This Bhīma Ratha Śānti has certain rules. But there is no limit of age to it. When the husband completes sixty years, the couple, seeking Śānti, celebrate the festival of Ṣaṣṭipūrti. After the seventieth year has passed, they celebrate a ‘Diamond Jubilee’. The celebration held after seventy, at eighty, ninety and a hundred years, has been given the name ‘Bhīma Ratha Śānti’.
Children today send their parents out of the house once they are past sixty. ‘They should not stay in these bonds of family life; they should simply enter sannyāsa and live there,’ so they think. That is a great mistake. Once their parents are past sixty, children must make a fitting effort to recognise their parents' situation and act accordingly. By the time their parents reach their seventieth year, children think they can no longer do anything. But it is at that very age that zeal, the power to encourage, and the strength of the Ātma grow in the old. It is then that the power of the Ātma within them comes out. Though before that they may have behaved like ordinary people and shown no true ideal, after the seventieth year the powers of the mind, the divine powers and the powers of will that dawn in them go on showing a new way.