Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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STUDENT'S CORNER
God doesn't exist in marble idols!', ' So much of rice and milk and other things are wasted in offerings to God!", 'God doesn't exist in temples, he is present in our hearts', 'All of this is blind faith and nothing else' etc. etc....
These were the arguments that came from the 8 people participating in a Group Discussion in my college. There were about 10 people in the Group Discussion and 8 out of 10 were for the topic and 2 of us,were against the ideas potrayed in Oh My God. Then it all started:
Strong arguments, aren't they? For me also these arguments would have been strong had I not attended the perfecting youth session. On attending the sessions I was thoroughly convinced by the logical presentation I got against OMG.
During the GD I grabbed the opportunity & passed on my views.
"How much food is consumed in offerings and how much food is wasted in receptions and big fat weddings!! In big receptions instead of criticizing what do we all say?? 'kya reception tha bhai!! Maza an gaya! So why doesn't anybody criticize the wastage which is much greater in volumes there?? This is the hypocracy of people. And the foodstuffs that go into the offerings are not wasted, they are collected and then distributed among the poor. But nobody will say this. They say its blind faith. I say faith is always blind. If everything had a reason
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and was proven scientifically then it would have been logic, not faith. So Faith is always
blind.
The discussion was meant to last only for 20 mins, but everybody including the teacher; who was not supposed to intervene, actively participated in the discussion: People were so engrossed in it that 50 mins elapsed and only when the next teacher came in, we knew that the class was over.
At the end of it everybody was so impressed by the ideas that they were not only convinced but also told me that they had the wrong notion till the discussion started and. thanked me for opening their eyes!
The response after the GD was so satisfying that I thought i was able to do some justice to the right ideas & hardwork that maharajsaheb puts in delivering everysession of Prefecting Youth.
It was really a fascinating experience! Perfecting Youth sessions not only give calm and serenity but also give so many different perspectives and ideas to think about that we can relate to in our day to day life. They definitely go a long way in developing our personality.
Mohit P. Shah (Pursuing CA)
PERFECTING YOUTH