It can be done, but one must rise from the linear train of thought and become creative. Maybe the Vanaprastha have figured out the algorithm of life. Should we withdraw from the material world and live how a hermit would? Owning the benefits of nature in the forests. Or shall we gain an insight on their situation and understand that the world we live in today needs to have civil disobedience in what we consider right and wrong.
Every races religion and culture changes when they immigrate to another foreign country. If we pay attention to countries outside of the U.S we can see that they are culturally and spiritually different. They live under different ethics and see morality in a different way other than the one we are traditionally use too. The things people were raised to follow and experiences they had with them as children change the way they ultimately make decisions. The first American settlers where also immigrants from another country, they had to adapt and create a new culture for future generations to follow.
With the example I used with the first American settlers we can compare to the way an immigrant family adapts to their new environment. During this families future generations we can see stripping of their culture happening as time passes. This is because everything revolves under material standards. One must work instead of enjoying life and in turn creates stress and problems. We create dilemmas that do not need to exist, creating an unstable equilibrium of happiness. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly, " (King 378). .
How can one create an ascetic relation if the indulgence we follow is nowhere near its premises? Everything has more of a meaning than what we are accustomed too. The truth can always be proven with tests and results.