The Life Cycle Completed (Extended Version): A Review

For my talk on the generational cycle, in fact, I asked Sudhir Kakar for the Hindu term corresponding to Care. He answered that there did not seem to be one word for it, but that the adult is said to fulfill his tasks by practicing Dāma (Restraint), Dana (Charity), and Daya (Compassion). These three words, I could only reply, are well translated into everyday English with “to be care-ful,” “to take care of,” and “to care for” (Erikson 1980).