To Every Human Being and Today’s Youth…

Rather than addressing people as man or woman, I prefer using terms like human, person, or youth. After all, words like mind and stress have no gender.

According to a World Health Organization research report, 3 out of every 5 people experience mental stress. But just take a look around you — is it easy to find someone untouched by anxiety or inner turmoil?

Every human being needs three essential elements:

Peace
Self-control
Happiness

Peace must be cultivated from within, adapted to one’s own life circumstances. Self-control is the way we handle life’s ups and downs with calmness and clarity. The more a person practices self-control, the stronger their emotional core becomes, enabling clear and discerning thinking. When we act with peace and composure, we experience a happiness that rises from within, spreading throughout mind and body. This bliss is the result of our own energy aligning with that of nature — and ultimately, this is the greatest goal of every human life.

Try living by these guiding principles each day:

1. Live in harmony with nature

Wake with nature, sleep with nature. If you rise during the Brahma Muhurta (early morning spiritual hour), practicing meditation for the mind and exercise for the body, you build both mental and physical wellness. Just like plants prepare food only when the sun is out, humans should ideally avoid eating after sunset.

2. Make the arts a part of life

Engaging in the arts — whether music, dance, painting, or any sensory form — provides boundless joy and enthusiasm. These are powerful tools for easing the mental stress of today’s fast-paced life.

3. Read regularly

Reading is food for the brain and nourishment for thoughts. What else can lift the imagination of a human being to the skies other than knowledge through reading?
“Read and you’ll grow. Don’t, and you’ll twist.” — Who can forget this line?

4. Practice moderation

Eat in moderation. Avoid stuffing your mind with “junk information”. Set strict limits for your time on WhatsApp, email, and social media.

5. Be action-driven and internally motivated

Nothing motivates better than the small or big achievements earned from working sincerely in your chosen field. Don’t fall into the stress-trap of unhealthy competition. Survival of the fittest and the 80-20 rule are evident in every profession. These are natural laws — understand, accept, and move forward accordingly.

6. Compete only with yourself

Your competition should be with who you were yesterday. Not with someone else. Always strive to be better than your previous self. This self-directed, pressure-free pursuit leads to growth and inner peace. Each person is a unique and powerful gift of nature — comparison is pointless.

7. Technology: A human assistant

A friend once said, referring to today’s generation: “They sit in front of a computer and feel like the world is in their hands.”
It’s not uncommon to see 1- or 2-year-old children expertly navigating apps, to the delight of their parents. Mobile phones have become tools to feed children or to stop their crying. But in doing so, we’re concealing a vast, beautiful, reality-teaching world behind a screen — and often, even parents don’t realize the danger of this act.

When these children step into school, the real world opens up to them — often too harshly. Mental stress may hit harder than any parent imagines. Bullying is a known issue now. Kids watch violent cartoons, are raised by stressed parents, and become products of a distorted environment. “Childishness is adulterated” — that’s the truth.

As they grow, these children may become extremely materialistic, disconnected from values like empathy or coexistence. This environment creates fertile ground for everything from drug abuse to emotional detachment. Technology must remain our assistant, not our master. It cannot outsmart our brain. Each of us must ensure technology doesn’t lead us into laziness or mental inactivity.

Let human innovation not become human destruction.

8. Live with a higher purpose

To be human is to contemplate. Discover the deeper meaning of life. Don’t drift from your greatest goal. Remember, there are many ways to reach that purpose.
Working without integrity, chasing only money, and wasting the resources of the very institutions that support us is shameful. Sometimes, beggars on the roadside seem to have more dignity than such individuals.

The absence of a higher goal beyond money is the root of such behavior. We are descendants of those who contributed to society through service, not just wealth. Before we return to dust, we must be aware of what we’ve contributed to the world. If not, we are simply returning to the soil as a meaningless heap.

9. Let go of what must be let go — set your own limits

Some unwanted habits and behaviors, if removed, can bring peace to both ourselves and those around us.

Many parents say, “Our children are glued to mobile phones,” and we see the truth with our own eyes.
Some wives complain: “My husband always insists — eat this, do that. He wants me to be this way or that way.”

On the other side, we also see women who, in the name of equality and freedom, forget self-restraint and destroy peace within their families by prioritizing ego and victory in every argument.

Such habits are self-learned. A lack of mutual understanding is the core issue. If each person sets their own boundaries, respects individual personalities and strengths, and supports each other, peace, happiness, and harmony will follow — not only within homes but in society as a whole.

If we raise our future generations in an environment rooted in peace and balance, that’s the greatest inheritance we can offer.

If we integrate these values into our daily lives —