Yuva bharati - March 2009 - Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan

forces. Whatever noise we hear about
degradation of Indian culture or the influence of
western culture on Indian life, arises out of
friction due to shift in the factor that influences
individual behavior from family or society to
other reasons namely, state, religion or global
market forces.
These forces conceal themselves so smartly
and keep the individual intoxicated in the
mindset that his rights are the ultimate product
for which they exist. The modern Indian youth
who choose to define their life in their own terms
fail to realize, in this inebriated condition, that
the architects of their thought are not themselves
but these strong, abstract market forces. They
shunt to pressures from peers who are equally
fickle minded and submit themselves to the
notions of "development" and "modern" as
painted by these forces.
The pressured mindset is certainly not due a
single transfusion. Toxins are being slowly and
steadily injected at every stage. Initially, any
ideal that could conflict with the ends of excess
sense gratification are demeaned. Then,
alternatives are fed in all walks of life through all
forms of media. The youth are drawn to a
consumerist culture forged by the capital
powers to create and sustain market.
Swami Vivekananda sensed this attack on
Indian mind in its initial stages, when the youth
started to fall into the colonial trap. His call to the
youth is more relevant today than ever as the
dimensions of the problem has only increased
multifold.
"… too much of hypnotism has been and is upon
our race. O ye modern Hindus, dehypnotise
yourself… power will come, glory will come and
everything that is excellent will come…”
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