¹ Technical note: bālyam punaḥ upeyuṣaḥ rājñaḥ.

¹ Prabhupāda has repeatedly stated that once old age sets in, one should cultivate the practice of renunciation in Kṛṣṇa consciousness to attain full spiritual perfection in this very life. And old age in Kali-yuga when humans can generally be expected up to 100 is 50—pañcāśordhvaṁ vanaṁ gacchet. Even if one fails to achieve spiritual perfection in this very life, bhakti-yoga executed with appropriate renunciation and knowledge will help secure one a superior platform for resuming the practice in his or her next life. After all, the first lesson in Bhagavad-gitā is that we are jīvātmās different from our subtle and gross material bodies and therefore we cannot die and our bodies cannot live forever. As such, changing bodies is like changing mobile phones that no longer function properly. The results of our activities in material and spiritual dharma will be awarded to us in our next life, just as people working in companies generally get paid at the end of the month or week, not during the month or week. There is a time for everything and old age is simply not the time for dhārmika or adhārmika romance or passion. Those hopelessly obsessed with desires for them even in their old age would do better to prepare for their next life while strictly adhering to the thirty duties common to all human beings enumerated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.11.8-12. After all, in their next life, they can re-experience youth. Death is not the end of the world. You don’t live only once and so there is no need to foolishly go through a mad rush to “grab it all before the show gets over” because the show never gets over; it is just a single episode in a never-ending show that gets over, unless you successfully qualify yourself to be permanently released from all this before this episode gets over.