Q: Today youth are more interested in drugs, alcohol and pornography. What is the advice for the parents on how should they handle teenagers and how can they have a better relationship with them?
Ans: Yes, it is a very delicate issue because teenagers don’t like to be dominated by the parents. Usually there is tendency to do that, so here parents should mellow down a little bit and help understand each other. We need to keep teenagers very busy, give them plenty of entertainment and lots of sports. Give them so much work that they do not have any time for anything. They come back home tired and fall asleep. So it is the age between eight to eighteen that they can learn sports. They should go to the gymnasium, do swimming. You know, when someone has done swimming for an hour, and then some exercise they come back home and all their energy is exhausted and they want to sleep. Morning they wake up fresh and they should learn music, they should be given lot of puzzles, and they should be exposed to a lot of information, entertainment, and education. This is how you can keep the teenagers away from sitting and surfing through the internet and viewing all pornography.
Q: My parents don’t want me to be a vegetarian. How do I convince them?
Ans: You should simply say, ‘I am going to be a vegetarian’, finished, they will accept it.
Q:I don’t believe in God, is that bad?
Ans: No never mind, at least you believe in yourself. You should know who you are. You believe in truth, honesty, love, compassion; these are the qualities of God.
Q: My parents love me so much that their love at times becomes suffocating for me. What do I do?
Ans: It is problem either way. Sometime you feel they don’t love you, which is not true. Sometimes you feel they love you too much and it is suffocating, what to do? You know when you feel suffocated? When you want to do something wrong. When your consciousness says, this is wrong I should not do it that is when you feel the suffocation of your parents. It’s good to be suffocated with that sort of attention. It’s good to feel the guilt to do something wrong. You know it is a safety warning for you.
Q:Music is my life but most of the people around me do drugs and have bad habits. How can I keep playing while being affected by all this?
Answer: Stand your ground, it’s good.

Lively Youth...
Q: Why is it always said not to watch action and horror movies? Do they have an impact on my mind?
Ans: What do you think? Do you get nightmares watching horror movies? Then better don’t. Okay you can watch one maybe in a year because the impact of it stays for too long time so better to avoid.
Q. Some people get depressed without any reason, what should we do?
Ans: Educate people about good food, health that is very much needed.
Q: I would like to know why people in war time will give his life for his country but in the time of peace most people won’t do anything for the country.
Ans: Yes, especially youth. When they are fed up with the systems. When they see things are not working properly, they have a commitment to do something for the country right. They only need proper leadership which would take them through the troubled times in a non-violent manner, it is very important. There is power in love, there is power in non-violence. Most of the people don’t realize this. What is happening in North of Africa is so unfortunate. These dictators are holding the fort and they don’t let people raise their voice. You know, you can’t live in the 15th century now. 15th century was of dictatorship, today democracy, liberty, freedom, this is what people are looking for and these people should facilitate democracy gracefully. That is important.
Q: There are times when people do something bad to you that hurts and you cannot seem to forgive them and time goes by and you still seem to keep that feeling. But you want to forgive them and you want to have a good relationship with that person.
Ans: Yes, I think meditation will help. More understanding will help. If someone has done something wrong to you, see it from this angle that the person was just a post man to do what he did. Yes, this is number one. Second angle is, the person was ignorant he didn’t know what he was doing that is why he was doing it, right. Third is to see that person is a victim himself/herself, so they did the mistake the way they did it. In this way you broaden your vision. Suddenly you will see things are all turning around.
Q: three things destroy the planet: misunderstanding, miscommunication and misuse, how do we relive ourselves then?
Ans: Yes, improve communication, have better understanding and don’t mistrust.
: Do it from your side and let go of the rest.