The impact of the western culture on the minds of today's youth is crossing all danger signals. Their rudderless ships are floating on the surface of this materialistic world without any direction whatsoever. The youth who are the future of India, are aimlessly wandering without any destination. The greatest fear is, what will happen to these fresh flowers if they are not well-protected in time from the harmful effects of sensual pleasure. The wild fire of lust and greed is engulfing the entire youth community. They are becoming the victims of the so-called modern culture. They are falling prey to all sorts of bad habits and becoming weak, physically, mentally intellectually and spiritually. Due to lack of proper guidance from parents, elders and teachers they are dissipating their youth energy only to invite physical and mental diseases. Forgetting their prime duty - to study and to acquire knowledge and skills through self-discipline and concentration-students are spending most of their precious time in entertainment and enjoyment. They are least bothered about the long-cherished moral, ethical and spiritual values taught and practised by their ancestors and are blindly imitating the western culture. The result is all around moral and spiritual degradation. Swami Vivekananda could sense this danger long ago when he said, "But mark your, if you give up that spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilisation of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round."
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No great things can be achieved without conservation of physical, mental and spiritual energy. The right time to achieve that is your. The first 25 to 30 years of life is meant for learning. In ancient education system students were known as Brahmacharins. A student without Brahmacharya is like a fruit without juice, a flower without smell, a temple without deity and a body without life. Brahmacharya and student life always go together. Running after money, sensual pleasures and spending considerable time for comforts and entertainment is a sure sign of fall from the ideal. Such students because of their scattered, restless and fickle minds will not be able to develop one-pointed concentration. And without concentration of mind great achievements are not possible. "To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collection of facts," says Swami Vivekananda.
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The root cause for most of the problems our youth are facing today is sex and fear complex. Many have vague ideas about the practice of Brahmacharya. Here we are trying to answer some of the questions often asked by students regarding the practice of Brahmacharya......
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