Awakening
Cure
the mind, and the body will be cured on its own.
‘Valentine’s
Day’ or ‘Sin Day’?
While
addressing a mammoth gathering of devotes, who thronged the Surat Ashram
(Gujarat) in lakhs on the pious occasion of Holy Pujya Bapuji cautioned
people all over the world against the disastrous consequences of celebrating
the ‘Youths’ Dooms day’ in the name of ‘Valentine’s Day.’ He
said that King Claudius of Rome must have been well aware of the
significance of celibacy, as he had prevented his soldiers from marrying, so
that they might become victorious in war through their physical strength and
mental efficiency thus preserved. As the prohibition was imposed forcibly on
the soldiers, Saint Valentine, himself being a Christian priest, could not
oppose celibacy and hence had arranged their marriage secretly. The King
declared him guilty and hanged him to death. It was since 496 A.D. that Pope
Galecius started celebrating ‘Valentine’s Day’ in his memory.
Those
who celebrate Valentine’s Day’ are only degrading Saint Valentine, as by
sending the valentine’s card they try to develop a licentious relationship
with their beloveds even before marriage. Had this been agreeable to
Valentine, he would not have arranged for the marriages.
The
celebrations of such days as that of ‘Valentine’s ’ have been the main
reason behind degeneration of moral values of the nations that have
discarded the traditional sexual values, and are encouraging people to lead
an immoral life. This has caused the degradation of such nations. Seven
percent of American children now have sex even before they have become
teenagers. 85 percent of American males and 77 percent of American females
have had sex by the age of 19. Even after spending crores of dollars on
‘abstinence only’ campaigns in schools, the governments of these nations
are unable to solve the consequence problems. Therefore, countries like
India should preserve their traditional sexual values by imposing a ban on
‘Valentine’s Day’, and the government must encourage institutions,
which promote ethical values so that such problems may never arise in this
country.
If
they imitate our glorious Inidan culture, they would be blessed with
happiness. But if we go to emulate their degrading culture we will be left
with an increasing number of AIDS cases, and emotional turmoil of teenagers
and mental disorders.
Instead
of this, celebrate ‘Love Day’ and worship your parents. Let children
behold the Divinity in their parents while parents should visualize the same
in their children.
The
youth will celebrate ‘Valentine’s Day’, look at each other with lust
and dissipate their sexual energy even during the day. This will weaken
their intellect, their eyesight and also the future generation. You may
verily call this a ‘Sin Day’ for breaking our nation’s backbone. It is
not a day of love but a day of harassment to the youth, a veritable
‘Youths’ Dooms day.’ Those ignorant ones may be unaware of this, but
doctors, Vaidyas and wise people can well realize whether the sexual
energy of the youth will be dissipated or sublimated by exchanging flowers
and touching one another.
By
worshipping one’s parents, one’s lust will be sublimated to divine love,
egotism will be transformed into pure love while parents’ blessings will
ensure well being of the children.
Nowadays,
even bachelors are trained to be immoral in the name of giving sex-education
through some magazines. The government plans to impart sex-education even in
schools. It should learn from the experience of western nations where until
recently, society provided teenagers with classroom instruction in “safe
sex” and “comprehensive sex education”. In general, these curricula
fail to provide a strong message to delay sexual activity, fail to deal
adequately with the long-term emotional and moral aspects of sexuality, and
fail to provide students with the skills needed to develop intimate loving
marital relationships as adults.
Over
the past five years, there has been a growth in abstinence education
programmes that stand in sharp contrast to “safe sex” curricula. The
best abstinence education programmes teach:
The
Secret of Eternal Youth (English version of the Hindi book ‘Yauvan
Suraksha’ published by the ashram) contains a much more useful and
comprehensive information on this subject than all such education can
impart. This book deals pragmatically on the harms and hazards of not
following the rules of abstinence; and also enumerates the supremely
propitious physical, mental, intellectual, spiritual and social benefits of
abstinence, thereby encouraging people to lead a life of abstinence.
In order to save the nation from dangerous problems, the government should so arrange that people are imparted education on sex based on ‘abstinence only’ education programme, as taught in the book ‘Yauvan Suraksha’. In case the government fails in this task, then all patriotic citizens should make their valued contribution to their great work of national interest, which will definitely help us emerge as the strongest nation in future.
The
Youth of Developed Nations Are Languishing
As
per the Innocenti Report card no.3, at least 1.25 million teenagers become
pregnant each year in the 28 OECD nations. Of those, approximately half a
million seek abortion and approximately three quarters of a million become
teenage mothers. 4,94,000 teen births are accounted for by the United
States. Every year some 3 million American teenagers contract a sexually
transmitted infection (about 1 in every 4 sexually experienced teenagers).
Overall,
roughly one-quarters of the nation’s sexually active teens have been
infected by a sexually transmitted disease (STD). In one act of unprotected
sex with an infected partner, a teenage woman has a 1 in 100 chance of
contracting HIV, a 1 in 3 chance of contracting genital herpes and 1 in 2
chance of correcting gonorrhea. Approximately a quarter of all new cases of
HIV/AIDS are diagnosed in young people under the age of 22. More than US $
400 million from federal and state funds has been spent on ‘abstinence
only’ campaigns in American schools. Today, one in three US high schools
has an abstinence only policy on sex education.
As
per a report of ‘The Heritage Center for Data Analysis,’ sexually active
girls are more than three times more likely to be depressed all, most, or a
lot of the time than are girls who are not sexually active. Boys who are
sexually active are more than twice as likely to be depressed all, most, or
a lot of times as are those who are not sexually active. Sexually active
teenager boys are eight times more likely to attempt suicide than are boys
who are not sexually active.
Among
girls 14.3 percent of those who are sexually active have attempted suicide
and among boys 6.0 percent of those who are sexually active have attempted
suicide.
The
link between teen sexual activity and depression in supported by clinical
experience. Doctor of adolescent medicine, Meg Meekar on page 64 of his
book, ‘Epidemic: How Teen Sex is Killing our Kids’, writes,
“Teenage sexual activity routinely leads to emotional turmoil and
psychological distress… (sexual permissiveness leads) to empty
relationships, to feelings of self-contempt and worthlessness. All, of
course, precursors to depression.”
Dear Indian brethren! Now think for yourself, are we to import their degradation into our country? Would the parents of Indian girls like them to be swept away with the blind imitation of the western culture and fall victims to lust, undergo abortion or become teenage mothers by getting entangled in the vicious celebrations like Valentine’s Day?
Source: Rishi Prasad April 2006
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