Why is the Realization of God Easily Achieved in Old age?

(This question is part of a mahā satsaṅga or a great spiritual discussion between Swami and several devotees who had come from various places, seeking the clarification of their doubts.)

Swami replied:- In the old age, the person gets some leisure to review all his/her long past life. Several incidents are correlated carefully by the old person. The old person concludes with confirmation that God certainly existed giving good fruits for merits and bad punishments for the sins done by him/her. The correlation is done between the action and fruit through the similar nature. For example, the old person finds that since he/she spoiled the marriage of somebody and in course of time his/her issue’s marriage was spoiled by somebody else. The old person realizes that certainly unimaginable God with unimaginable power exists to give the punishment for the sin. Similarly, the old person finds that the marriage of his/her issue was helped by somebody and for this good fruit, the analysis shows its linked action, in which he/she helped the marriage of the issue of somebody. By this, the old person realizes the existence of unimaginable God, who has given good fruit for good action. By such analysis of several practical incidents standing as actions and their fruits, the old person certainly believes in the existence of the administration of the unimaginable God on this earth. Even though strong realization comes, the old person has neither much time nor much energy to worship God. If this realization comes in earlier age, such person is very lucky to have sufficient time and energy to concentrate on the devotion to God. Due to the realization obtained in the old age of past birth also, this realization comes to a soul in this birth in very early age, provided the realization got in the previous birth was very strong to transcend into this new birth.