Acharya Prashant addresses a question comparing the challenges of engaging with youth in Swami Vivekananda's time versus today. He begins by explaining that the youth are always in a peculiar condition where their bodies mature almost suddenly, within a span of six to seven years, granting them the energy and capabilities of adults. However, this rapid physical development is not matched by a corresponding inner maturity or life experience. He points out that formal education systems do not cater to the inner needs of the youth, leading to a flawed assumption that physical growth automatically brings inner wisdom. Consequently, the youth, despite their immense potential and energy, operate not from a place of deep understanding but from their conditioning. Acharya Prashant analyzes the conditioning prevalent in Swami Vivekananda's era, identifying it as twofold. Biologically, the youth were physically weak, often malnourished and ill. Mentally, they were conditioned to accept a life of weakness, misery, and subjugation. He posits that Swami Vivekananda's genius lay in challenging both these aspects of conditioning, famously urging the youth to be physically strong and to reject the mentality of helplessness and defeat. Acharya Prashant argues that the fundamental work of a spiritual revolutionary is to challenge the prevailing conditioning of their time. He notes that while the objective superstitions of the past, such as the sun revolving around the earth, have been largely debunked by science, the youth of today are ensnared by new, subjective superstitions. These modern beliefs include the ideas that happiness is achieved through consumption, the purpose of life is to get settled and retire early, and that career choices are limited to a few conventional paths. He refers to these as the superstitions of today. He concludes that these subjective beliefs are more difficult to dismantle than the objective ones of the past because science cannot disprove them. The core issue remains the same: the tendency to live by unexamined beliefs rather than through inquiry. Therefore, the task of engaging the youth is as challenging today as it was in Swami Vivekananda's time. He asserts that a figure like Vivekananda would be resisted just as fiercely by today's youth because he would challenge their most deeply held, yet unexamined, beliefs and conditionings.