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‘Young,
free and single’.
These three words best describe
the mentality of today’s youth.
They are at a delicate transition
in their lives, expected by society
to be responsible and yet by that
same society trusted with
sponsibilities or allowed to think
for themselves. It is a period
where they have to leave their
childhood dreams and accept the
realities of life. If we can learn to
trust them, to respect their views,
to treat them as the young adults
they are - and at the same time
still love them as we did when
they were children, then may be
they will be able to accept these
realities and take on the task to
improve the world we live in.
If not, they may rebel against
society and in effect, against us.
We can see Swamishri preparing
yesterday’s children to become
tomorrow’s leaders...
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With Youth |
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Out To the World... |
Questions posed by college
students.
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Student : What should one do to be human?
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Swamishri : To be human one should have compassion, honesty, non-violence,
discipline and niyams. If we can make such distinctions then we
will be human, otherwise we will be no different from animals.
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At present, society is becoming beastly. How can we uplift the level
of people’s minds?
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Swamishri : That’s why we preach to people like you. No matter
how great the temptations we face, we should never be lured towards
them. We do not want a car or a big house, we only want to serve
society. If we keep such intentions, we won’t have any problems.
We should live simple, contented and pure lives. The more we increase
our needs, the more we will feel discontentment. Then we will try
to bring others down so that we can get ahead.
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What should we do so that we can concentrate fully in all our activities
and achieve success?
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Swamishri : We have to make an effort to concentrate harder. Once
we have fixed a goal, all our thoughts should be directed towards
fulfilling it. To develop intense concentration we need to keep
a single thought fixed in our minds, read only about that, discuss
only that topic and stay in an appropriate environment. But if we
let our thoughts wonder here and there, or if we go to the cinema,
then how can we concentrate on our work? To achieve our goal we
must be fixed in our niyams. If we behave in this manner, then we
will be successful.
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(16 January 1991 Gondal)
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