Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the Jan/Feb/Mar 2013 edition of Hinduism Today magazine. In this edition, Bodhinatha outlines the nature and purpose of each of the four stages of life, namely Brahmacharya (student life), Grihastha (married life), Vanaspratha (elder advisor) and Sannyasa (renunciate life) ashramas, each of which lasts for 24 years.