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"CAUSES OF MORAL AND SPRITUAL DOWNFALL OF MODERN YOUTH AND
CONSTRUCTIVE PLANS FOR THEIR ALL ROUND (TOTAL) UPLIFTMENT"
BY PROF. PRATAPKUMAR J. TOLIYA
Is it correct to say that the Modern Youths have been side-tracked from the path of truth and Morality? Is it true that there is a large-scale deterioration and downfall amongst them? Is it sure that they require the total change for their all round upliftment and sublimation?
To ascertain these facts and to derive any conclusion positively, it is necessary to consider the present-day condition of the modern Youths.
If we consciously and minutely look and watch around us-near or far, it would not be difficult to find that the Modern Youths burning the Rises and Railway carriages, killing and harassing their teachers and innocent persons, indulging in drinking and non-vegetarian eating, crossing the limitations of sexual behavior and keeping aside the ideal of self-restraint, wandering aimlessly and antisocially shelving and neglecting all the moral and spiritual values of life and what not, are no/doubtful of unrest and deterioration and they definitely require the total change, the total transformation.
WHERE LIES THE FAULT?
When the above-mentioned present-day condition of the Modern Youths is a reality then what are the causes of the same? Where lies the root-causes? Where lies the faults?
It is an established fact that the Modern Youths are in despair and unrest and they are uprooted from the centre of their life, the self, the soul.
This prevailing state of their life's tragic condition requires deep and discriminative analysis. The Jains' way of thinking, present before us the all-sided and total perspective combining all view-point for finding the causes and the conclusion of any problem. This approach, known as the ANKANT or SYADWADA, gives us the right visit and discrimination. The same applied to our prevailing
