Mobile phones are an important device in everyone’s life these days. They have many benefits, but they also have many dangers. They definitely spoil kids. Playing games and looking at inappropriate pictures are mundane things. We don’t prohibit them because kids can use them to inform their parents. However, smartphones should not be given to children. They are very dangerous not just for children but for elders, too.
It also has benefits; if you are in trouble, you can inform the police, the ambulance, and your loved ones. The second benefit of smartphones is that they allow you to see the beauty of holy places and listen to the words of great (saintly) personalities. People living in faraway places like America and Australia learn about Vrindavan through Satsang, and mobile phones are the main medium for receiving this information. It is a beautiful combination, but its demerit can destroy your intelligence.
Young kids are being affected by sensuality because of mobile phones. I met a child who told me about his painful situation because of masturbating multiple times a day. I was surprised that, as he was still a child, he should not even know about all this. Young kids lose games on mobile, which makes them mentally weak and depressed. Small things start to sting them; they become fragile mentally. Prolonged usage also has a significant impact on the eyes.
Destroying Brahmacharya is equivalent to Destroying Life
Protect yourself from bad company. Stay away from people who teach you corrupt things, make you hear immoral things, and inspire you to engage in immoral activities. Mobile phones accelerate bad behaviour. Sinful talks can be done with friends; corrupt scenes can be seen; please protect yourself. You can control your tendencies in the open; however, when sitting alone in a room, the mind makes you search for illicit things and watch them. At this age, the mind is inquisitive and eager to watch corrupt things.
Wasting semen is eating our new generation like a termite eats a small plant. Impressions of kids are getting contaminated at an age when the life force (semen) is not yet fully developed and matured. If they stay celibate until the age of 20-22 and then go into married life, there will be no harm because they have become mature by the age of 20-25.
However, it is quite difficult. Because today’s environment gives you such bad association that you get tired of fighting. They will show you the doctor’s advice that masturbation will improve your health, pacify your mind and make you peaceful. However, that is the wrong direction; that direction is headed towards destruction. The desire for sensual activities goes down briefly when you do it, but that ghost will become even bigger and take over your whole life. It starts to destroy you. It should be stopped at the very beginning. Don’t be defeated by it; whenever you feel like impure feelings are overpowering you, chant loudly Radha Radha or start listening to the spiritual discourse and walk around. Don’t be in solitude, and don’t get submerged in it. It will try to submerge you when alone.
A Healthier Substitute
Children should be made vigilant and given a small, low-cost mobile phone to inform their guardians if they need help. However, some people may feel ashamed about keeping a low-cost phone, thinking what friends would say. Having costly smartphones makes them feel proud. But please understand that these smartphones are very dangerous. They should not be treated as a prestige point. Respect should be about points like touching your parents’ feet daily, chanting the holy name every day, going to school on time regularly, and not speaking filthy words; that’s real respect. Having big phones, being rude, and not listening to parents or teachers, I think, is a real insult.
Your virtues are your respect. I request everyone to touch their parent’s feet when they wake up. It would increase your age and intelligence, even if your parents do not express it verbally. Fall at the feet of your mother and see how much love you will get; she will hold you in her arms. Bow your head at the feet of the Father and see the love you receive. God is in everyone’s heart, and parents are the first Guru. But nowadays children do not listen to their parents or consider them anything. They behave arbitrarily and follow a new era of boyfriend and girlfriend (live-in relationship). Modernity has spoiled it all.
Modernity has benefits as long as we do not accept its shortcomings. Otherwise, its fallibility is confirmed. Children who are misguided from a young age will become bad when they grow up. Similarly, if they follow good qualities throughout, they will become good people who will give happiness to the world.
A Request To The Youth For Following Brahmacharya
I request all the young people to chant the holy name (Radha Radha) at least 108 times. Greet your parents daily and listen to their instructions. If you want to keep a mobile phone, keep it small; don’t keep a big one (smartphone). Respect is earned through virtues, not by mobile. If you keep a gold mobile, will everyone salute you? No. But if you are of good virtue, you may serve our country very well or be a reformer of society.
Stay away from bad company and try to follow Brahmacharya. Sometimes, listen to satsang (spiritual discourse) for 10-20 minutes and consider your studies worship. If anything bothers you, please discuss it with your parents. Chant Radha Radha, when you get swayed away by lustful thoughts, it will be over within 3-4 minutes. If you defeat it, then the next time, it will go away in even less time, and slowly, you will learn to defeat it.
Note: If you are struggling with nightfall, the habit of excessive masturbation, or trying to maintain celibacy, these articles will be helpful for you:
- How to stop nightfall?
- Side effects of masturbation
- Food and daily routine rules required for celibacy
- How to overcome lust
Answered by – Pujya Shri Hit Premanand Ji Maharaj
