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The Valentine day Legend : In the West, Saint Valentine stands as an icon of unconditional love, one of the classical signs of a true saint. Legend has it that the saint kept trying to spread Christianity even when he was imprisoned by the Roman Emperor Claudius II and showed miracles in jail. He even restored the eyesight of Jailer's daughter while in jail, a saintly expression of his unconditional love. Valentine's Day is celebrated to commemorate saintly love and not the physical lust existing between a couple. Sadly, Valentine's day today has become more of a lust day than a love day.

Indian Society, a circus of Apes

Indian Society has today become a virtual circus of apes. Apes lack their own intuition. All they are skilled at is simulating someone else's behavior, whether they understand its significance or not. This brings us to the three main shortcomings of today's Indian youth.

1. Lack of leadership qualities - Leadership qualities here imply the decision making capacity of adhering to one's cultural framework after due recognition and analysis of positive and negative aspects of one's own culture.

2. The great Identity Crisis - Today's youth are not able to identify themselves as "Indian". This is partly due to the education they undergo as toddlers and their parent's inability to inculcate values in them. Throughout a person's childhood, he undergoes the typical Western Education System prevalent in our Schools and Colleges, wherein Hindu Culture is projected with a bias. The current Education System, barring a few exceptions, targets the Indian Culture by highlighting more of its ills and hiding its advantages. At the same time it prints a very rosy picture of the Western Culture. Its sings praises of the West's scientific thought, while projecting Indian culture as being backward, unintellectual, unscientific and non-progressive. It selectively hides how the West has given even "greater" gifts to humanity by building Atom Bombs, destructive weapons of mass destruction, sucking the wealth out of the East through imperialist colonialism, maltreating Easterners through racism and leading two gory world wars based on personal gains. It selectively hides the greatness of the Hindu Culture and its Dharmic sciences(Dharmashastras) which give the message of universal fraternity and projects more on the fundamentalist Western Abrahamic faiths. A typical presentation of Indian culture is the "Culture of the Caste System, Snake Charmers and Tantrics". The Indian Education system also subconciously projects our deities as being "imaginary". Due to this, a vast majority of Indian youth have difficulty putting their faith in deities. Due to this, the Nationalist and Spiritual sentiments of Indian youth are practically defunct by the time they grow into adults. They dont find nude, insulting depictions of their own deities offensive as their brains have been slowly hypnotised to believe they dont exist at all. In the words of Lord Macaulay, who planned the present education System in India,

"Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully; we find it difficult to provide instruction to all. The effect of this education on Hindus is prodigious. No Hindu who has received an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. It is my  firm belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respected classes 30 years hence. And this will be effected without our efforts to proselytize; I heartily rejoice in the prospect" - Lord Macaulay in a letter to his father dated Oct. 12th, 1836

3. Cultural Unawareness - Indian Youth of today lack knowledge of their own culture. This again can be attributed to the Education System which contains either biased or no information about great Hindu scriptures. Barring a few Marathi Schools or traditional schools, most of the schools and colleges contain no information about Hindu scriptures. As a result most of the Students end their education with a paper degree and with no knowledge of the Indian culture. Among today's middle class youth, there appears to be tremendous confusion. There is no one to provide them with the appropriate education about sex, love and lust. There is no one to give their life the right direction. The standards of measuring success and their ideals have changed, thanks to the morally and adharmic or "secular" neutral education system. Being successful by earning lots of money quickly, going abroad and boasting about it to peers, having fun by drinking and smoking, partying, going to Picnics and enjoying life are some of the wasted ideals of today's youth. Unfortunately a vast majority of parents of the present generation have failed to inculcate values in their children or so it seems. One simple question will prove a testimony to the above inference.

How many youngsters today are aware of various scriptures of Hindu Dharma and the benefits of lessons of life and direction that can be learnt by their Study? Sadly, very few people even know Ramayana the great epic, beyond the fact that it is the tale of Lord Raam and Hanuman! This trend is growing at an alarming rate in particularly convent Schools and Colleges run by the Missionary Churches.

False projections of Valentine Day popularity by the Media. The Media has increasingly given undue importance to the popularity of Valentine's day. Add to that the efforts of increasing Sales by the Greeting card and Gift shop keepers and small business owners. Valentine's day is the most popular among youngsters of the high class community that has been the most deprived of Hindu Dharmic education. This is the age wherein Westerners are leaving their beds of roses and coming all the way down to India to study Hindu Dharmic sciences(Dharmashastras), to learn something new about mental peace, harmony and overcoming spiritual distress. Among some schools and Colleges which have "Secular", the ornamental word associated with them, or which are convent schools funded by Christian Churches and Catholic Churches, Valentine's Day undoubtedly dominates. However media's undue propaganda gives an impression that everyone is celebrating Valentine's day! This is not true.

Valentine's Day: is it needed in India? For a Spiritual Seeker, or a Hindu, everyday is a day of unconditional love. Hindu Dharmic sciences, not just preach but guide a Seeker in a scientific way how to achieve the state of unconditional love. The need of a day to remember and preach the ideal of unconditional Spiritual Love is indeed required In the Western countries of the Abrahamic Faiths, where the Raja-Tama component dominates creating Narrow minded and Fanatically imperialist derivations of Religion. Unfortunately, the Western Culture is so ridden with the Ghoulishness of Physical pleasures, that even a day of unconditional love has been degraded to a day of insatiable lust ! We dont see anyone displaying Spiritual love in the society on Valentine's day. What we see is instead young couples, adolescents and school going students locked in each other's embrace and doing grossly physical acts on the streets, on the beaches, in schools and colleges.

Valentine leads to Palestine ? Palestine today, is the icon of internal tension. Valentine day celebrations lead to some lives becoming Palestine as observed by a noted Hyderabad based psychiatrist, Dr. Rajeev Bhosekar. Dr Bhosekar is a clinical psychiatrist who originally from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, has now moved into Maharashtra for his practice. In the 15 years of his practice Dr Bhosekar has dealt with several psychiatric cases having their roots in Valentine day celebrations. In his words, "College going adolescents and youngsters give each other gifts and greeting cards to express their love for each other on this day. However that is not love but a temporary infatuation." A few of such cases are shown below to indicate the social harms rooted deep within Valentine Day celebrations:

1. A woman of 38 years age had sought treatment in Pravara Medical College. She was suffering from severe depression and thoughts of worthlessness and suicide. When I tried to understand her psychological disease through counselling, I realised that being originally a Marathi girl, she had married a U.P. based person on Valentine Day despite severe opposition from her parents. On going to her inlaws place in U.P. she was unable to adjust to the North Indian way of life, among the people there and the differences in the way in which she had been brought up and lifestyle of the people there. She soon became a victim of depression and suicidal thoughts.

2. A couple had come for treatment in the Panchakarma Deptt of "Yerala Ayurvedic College". The woman was Marathi and the man a Punjabi. They had married on Valentine's day despite opposition from their parents. After marriage, the woman was shocked when she realised that her husband was in fact a Sadist. Besides this, the difference in cultural values of the two took a heavy toll on her mental health and she soon became a psychiatric patient.

3. In yet another case, a Malayalee youth married a Girl originally from Maharashtra after a proposal on Valentine's day sparked off an affair between the two. The girl who found it extremely difficult to adjust to typical South Indian style of life suffered a lot and ultimately had to be admitted to the "Keraliya Ayurvedic Center" for physical and psychological treatment.

Dr. Bhosekar recalls several such cases encountered in his career and accounts them all to the misunderstanding that being progressive means shunning cultural traditions. He says that youngsters are not mature enough to understand in their frenzy that falling victim to even a moment of lust can lead to disastrous consequences. Life is not all romance like a movie. Later on one has to face harder truths of life. He also says that such cases are very few in Culturally strong Andhra Pradesh where cultural traditions are recognised and observed to a great extent as against Maharashtra where the Western winds have started blowing strongly. Valentine's day encourages such immature relationships and in the context of psychiatry it should be called as a "Palestine" day.

Some of the Social harms encouraged by Valentine's day- Love(lust) proposals in colleges and schools - Promotion of disproportionate amounts of Sexual Desire. - Wastage of youth energy - Eve Teasing, Rape, Coercive sex in Pubs, Cars and closed spaces. - Spread of STDs and HIV unwanted pregnancy risk.  Spiritual Harm- propagation of the Tama component causing spiritual degradation of the society.  Cultural Harm- Cultural Degradation - Lack of pride of one's own culture - Lack of Nationalist sentiments - Tendency to ape the West. - Lack of global leadership. (Aping the West).

The Era of the Rising Sun, a need for Dharmic Education Fortunately, the present era is the era of the rising Sun. The era of Dharmic Education has begun. Education of Hindu scriptures, the Hindu way of life should be given in schools and colleges. True Dharmic Education only can foster a sense of moral and ethical responsibility in today's youngsters. Any person who has studied the Hindu Dharmic sciences can never be so immature as to celebrate Valentine's day. Let us all pray at the holy feet of ShriRaamchandra that the lust within Valentine's day be replaced by every single day of unflinching unconditional love towards all Humanity.

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