CHENNAI: Since time immemorial and with great concern to present indiscipline or lack of core human values is considered to be a major factor for the downfall of civilisation. It is known that no country can ever rise to great heights without a disciplined population. Lack of discipline shows there is a sense of frustration or total absence of control in the society, which further leads to restlessness of the mind with a tendency to defy overthrowing all codes of conduct.
Such behaviour shows a deep scorn for the local administration and madness for proximity to corridor of power. The need of the hour is to engage the youth in constructive activities and channelise their energies in a positive way for the benefit of self and the society. If parents cannot inspire their progeny by their behaviour, then the youngsters, who have a superfluous physical energy, become restless, breaking all decency in the cover of darkness in brute duality, that is beyond repair.
However the most potent factor that is responsible for the restlessness and indiscipline among the children is the absence of moral and spiritual education in schools and lack of inspiration from their elders at home. Thus, it is spiritual education which gives a person self-control and values like tolerance, patience, sobriety, humility and respect towards elders. It transforms them from a restless person to a person with contentment, dedication and spirit of sacrifice. Hence, the need of the hour is to impart values at the formative stage. Those values were being cultivated since generations and nurtured as culture and heritage, but somewhere it stopped percolating due to massive western cultural invasion that happened.