You wild away your childhood in just trivial matters and your youth in desires and consumption and now you are left with only regrets when you are old.* That's what the saints have always been telling you. Read more.....
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Acharya Prashant: What is the best use of youth?
The same use, as is best for, in any point of life.
It's not as if youth can be put to a "use" that is different from the best use of any other stage of life. Doesn't matter how old you are, your time must have only one purpose, one aim, one direction: self-revelation, peace, clarity, realization.
It's just that it is much more facile in youth. Why? Because in your youth, you are neither a kid nor too grown up. Because you are not a kid, your brain is now developed enough to analyze, criticize, think, ruminate, ponder, delve, and introspect. Now all these things are possible for you. You can now gather knowledge, divide it, compare it and your body has strength. So, the mind is not unduly afraid of physical limitations. At the same time, you are not old. Layers and layers of sediments have not yet gathered upon you. Your habits haven't become fossilized, you haven't settled down into grooves and you are not burdened with social responsibilities. So, youth is the most appropriate time to move speedily towards yourself. The same movement must happen throughout life. But it is, as I said, much more facile in youth.
