Today we venerate Bismil, Rajguru, Bhagat Singh, and Azad, yet many of them were let down by their own youthful compatriots. Be it any era, most people are governed mostly by their biological mandate. The choice is to either follow your biological compulsions, or go by the whisperings of your free mind, the aspirations of your yearning consciousness. The villains are ordinary; it is the hero who emerges against the norm. This age desperately needs a few heroes.
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Questioner: When I look at the youth, when I look at our generation, all I see is weakness of mind and body, and that is why they are pulled down by voices like chasing women, running after money, alcoholism, doing drugs, and all kinds of nonsense and things which are unspeakable.
And when I look at the lives of legends like Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, even Subhas Chandra Bose, I feel like why can’t we become like them? How can we become like them? How do we live a life they lived? How can we live such a fulfilling life that, when we die, we will not regret the way we believed?
Acharya Prashant: It is obviously wonderful to aspire for greatness, but remember that one has to start from where one is. Man is a product, at least a function, of his upbringing, of his environment, his surroundings. A hundred years back, situations were different. I am not saying better, not saying worse — different. Today you live in a particular complex of situations, and that is where you get your habits, your attitudes, your worldview, your opinions, your entire mental setup from. So that is where we all stand today; that is where the youth stands today.
