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6 A Message to the Youth of India

and the broader society—as the entire world, and
particularly India, is experiencing today. *
Promotion of lust and selfishness degrades
humans to the level of beasts, as is widely observed
in the character of Indian students today. Whereas
traditional Indian education imparted character
training and knowledge of God, modern schools not
only fail to uphold moral principles, but even promote
the rot. So-called education is conducted as a business
and teaches that man evolved by chance from monkeys.
“No need of God”—no mention of God. “Science
is God.” “Science will solve all problems” (a hopeless
hope). Not only from the TV and cinema but even at
school, many youth learn to lie, cheat, brag, speak foully,
quarrel, fight, make politics, smoke, drink, take drugs,
and indulge in sex. Far from helping their inmates,
educational institutions mould them for a life of
suffering to fulfil the demands of a society that enslaves
its members to lifelong inhumanly hard work. Students
are under tremendous pressure to be successful in their
studies. Although cutting a “cool” profile on campus,
they are internally racked by insecurity, tension,
depression, confusion, and frustration—as evidenced
by frightening rates of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse,
and psychiatric disturbance among youth.

* For the positive, spiritual alternative to entanglement in
lust and sex, see Brahmacarya in Kåñëa Consciousness by
Bhakti Vikäsa Swami.