How can the youth of the present age be properly rooted in Vedic culture?
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Last wisdom from you for the youth of the nation, the current youth of the nation. Basically, youth wants to, like a lot of people I know, wants to understand the culture, wants to be rooted in the Indic culture, the traditions, the Sanatan culture. But they don’t know where to start.
They are always confused. There are so many information. This era is the era of misinformation more than information.
So, your words of wisdom for… Okay. So, I would say two broad things. First is that just rather than worrying about is this teacher sincere? Is this teacher genuine? Is this information genuine? First, try to be genuine oneself.
That means try to cultivate earnest hunger for knowledge, hunger for understanding. So, if we have that, then God will guide us. So, if we try to become earnest, we take responsibility.
Just like in our day-to-day lives, we can say that if you want to study engineering, there are so many colleges. Now, what do we do? There are so many colleges. I’ll get confused.
What do I do? We use our intelligence. We are earnest. We use our intelligence.
Which is a good engineering college? Maybe I’ll go there and I’ll study. So, if we want to also understand our culture, our tradition, our wisdom, then cultivate that earnest desire and that earnest desire will guide us. Rather seeing our earnest desire, God will guide us.
The Bhagavad Gita says that God is there in our hearts with all of us and He is there to guide us all the time. And second thing is that wherever we are, if we cultivate an attitude of service and contribution, then that gets us out of our head. So, we are all placed wherever we are by God and here if we try to contribute with a mood of service, that also pleases the Lord.
So, wherever we are, if we cultivate a little selflessness, then God will give us more wisdom so that we can contribute more. And in that way, we can move forward. So, yes, there are specifics of the culture to be learned and in my own small way, I have several websites.
As you mentioned, I have GitaDaily as a website. GitaDaily.com GitaDaily.com And I also have another website, thespiritualscientist.com where almost 6000 questions have been answered over there along with lots of talks are there. Then if some of you want to improve your vocabulary and your spirituality, I have a third website called Spiritual Words Daily where basically, Spiritual Words Daily, where I take say GRE or SAT level words and explain them using three sentences, one based on the Ramayana, one based on the Mahabharata, one based on the Bhagavad Gita.
So, I am doing my small part in trying to share these resources. And just be earnest and God will guide you ahead.