The whole ground filled with the parents. Even it has been told that meeting was only for the parents, some students also accompanied their parents. Anupama came along with her parents.

In the dais were seated principal, teachers and Niranjan. Niranjan has been made sit in a central chair and a mike was arranged to him to speak.

"Thank you all for coming to this meeting on this day." Looking at the huge audience before him, principal Mrudanga Rao said. "I did not expect this many number of parents do attend to this meeting." Mrudanga Rao really not expected that many number of people do attend to the meeting he arranged. He knew about the popularity of Niranjan but still was suspicious about the response.

"I think you all know very well our Ninranjan sir, a great meditation and personality development expert. He wrote many books, gave discourses at many places and now is giving his speeches in television also. We are all quite lucky that he is living just near to our school as such I can manage that he teaches meditation every day an hour to our students. You all may be known about that." Mrudanga Rao paused expecting a response from the audience.

"Yes,".........."Yes"........"We are happy with it" the response from the audience there was indeed pleased Mrudanga Rao.

"You all also know that he is not just a meditation expert but also a personality development expert and he knew many other matters also so well. I thought it would be so beneficial to all of us if I arrange a meeting like this especially with the parents of our school where Niranjan can say something useful. "

There was great response from all the audience once again which pleased Mrudanga Rao to the maximum.

"Now our Niranjan sir is going to talk. In the end parents are allowed to ask questions to him." he said and sat in his chair.

Niranjan adjusted the mike before him. "I am very happy that I can talk like this to you all in this way. Giving speeches is not new to me, but talking particularly with parents of high school children I am doing for the first time. If principal has not asked me to talk like this with you parents, I might have asked him to give me a chance to talk like this." he paused for a moment observing the vast audience before him. All of them were completely silent listening what he was saying with rapt attention.

"Because high school stage is such an important one in every boy and girl's life! When it comes to a girl it is even more important. Because it is the stage when most crucial body and mind changes take place in girls. Even the changes in boys are not as much as girls, they play a very important role in their lives also. Unless, otherwise children are put in knowledge about the changes, they make them bewildered, confused and thrilled also. Sometimes they do feel fear too. Unless they are guided in a correct way there are chances that they take wrong steps." He paused once again as if to give more stress to what he was going to say.

"Most unfortunately we don't give much importance to the changing factor at high school stage. We think crucial changes take place only at the intermediate stage. We give importance only to discipline the children until their high school studies are over. We just don't bother what is going on in their minds, with what type of confusion they are. We just force them concentrate on their studies and get good scores. By this, what happens is, whatever opinions and ideas have generated in their minds while they are in high school take form shape by the time they reach intermediate. It becomes impossible to change them then."

It seemed whatever Niranjan was saying going straight into the minds of audience there. Their expressions were clearly insinuating it.

"We first talk about girls who are studying in high school. It is the most crucial stage in a girl's life. Most probably, in more than ninety percent girls, they become women at this stage. They may step into the womanhood from sixth to tenth at any moment. Unless the girl is told about it before, she will be just confused. It is very important to let her know the changes that her body would undergo in before itself. If we wait thinking that it does not happen until her tenth class or later, we do mistake. There were girls who entered into their womanhood just at their sixth class also. There were girls who ran off from the house, committed suicide, just as they did not know what happened to them. It was just because that there was no guidance. It was just because that they did not know what happened to them."

He observed the audience carefully once again. All of them became even more attentive.

"Now we talk about the boys. This high school period is no less important to boys also. Even they do not undergo massive changes like girls in their bodies, changes in the body start in boys also. The urge for sex strongly starts in high school period. The most noteworthy point here is the sexual urge at high school stage would be so high in boys than girls. They just don't know why they are feeling so strongly about it. At the same time they don't know where to satisfy it either. But they know how they can satisfy it and all the time so desperately search for an opportunity. Providing there is an opportunity, they never go back in satisfying their urge."

"I know most of you people are not much interested in hearing this." once again observing carefully the expressions on the faces of the audience there, Niranjan said. "Because it is quite wrong in most of your opinion to think about sex. It is even more wrong in your opinion to talk about it with your children. But none of you don't think, how natural it is in children and how important it is to discuss about it with them. If they are forewarned, if they know the changes that their bodies and minds undergo, they shall be careful in future. They would not be trapped themselves in immature loves, hasty marriages and unwanted pregnancies."

"Now I am going to talk about the attraction between a girl and boy at the high school stage. They don't feel much the difference until they reach the eighth standard. Boys and girls make friendship with each other with not much difference until they entered into it their eighth class. Most in the cases girls become women after they entered into their eighth class. Then the strong attraction started between boys and girls. Just making them separated in the class and close observance on them does not solve the problem. You must know all the time they look for an opportunity to satisfy the urge. Because of many things around they come to know about sexual intercourse about that time itself. Unless they are guided, unless it has been told how unwise it is to satisfy sexual urge at an immature stage like that, they sure do want to have the pleasure. It is our responsibility to see that whether it is boy or a girl must have the knowledge about the changes his/her body undergo, about the strong urges he/she is going to have. Forewarned is fore-protected."

"Moreover, if they have been known about the attractions they are going to have at this age, they don't put themselves into the trap of immature love. They can understand why they are feeling such an attraction to opposite sex. They prevent themselves from falling prey to so many disadvantages and concentrate on becoming developed in their lives."

I can say my speech on this day created different feelings in you now. You might not have expected this speech at all. But I thought it is so important. Now you can ask me if you do want anything to ask."

One of the male parents among them took mike to talk. "I was not offended by hearing your speech like this sir. It is so much an important point that we all have to look into. One girl child of our relatives became pregnant at her ninth class. If she had the knowledge or someone told her about the possible consequences of having unprotected sex, it would not have happened at all." He gave back the mike.

"I am feeling happy that you approved what I have said." Niranjan said.

Another male parent among them took the mike "Can we stop sexual intercourse between children by telling them about the disadvantages? The bodily urge in them may compel them to have it even they are knowledgeable about the disadvantages of premature and unsafe sex. And our environment around is also like that. Even a small child also can know about sex even they don't know about the disadvantages."

"I agree with you" Niranjan nodded his head. "Making them knowledgeable about disadvantages of experimenting with sex may not stop them having it."

"Then" he paused for a moment and said again "should not we say what they have to do when they feel it so strong like that? I mean satisfying it without .........."

"Hey, what you are talking?" someone among them yelled interrupting him.

"It is indecent talking." Some other one said.

Once all of them became silent, Niranjan said again. "Even it appears like that, I can see some reason in what he said. We must agree sometimes sexual urge between people is like that. You may not know but the sexual urge in the students from eight to tenth would be even stronger and it compels them so strong to have sexual intercourse."

"Then should we tell them how to satisfy it without subjecting themselves to disadvantages?" Anupama's father, Nirmal asked. For the first time he felt regretted taking Anupama with them.

"It needs a big debate." Niranjan said. "Considering the bad effects of immature and unsafe sex would have, it may be better telling them what to do if they cannot stop from having it."

"In one way it is just like encouraging them having it." Some other parent yelled.

"You are right." Niranjan nodded his head. "That is why I said it needs a big debate. Anyhow it is very important to let them have sexual education, the changes that their bodies undergo and the urges and feelings they do have. It sure shall be helpful to them."

"We all do agree with it" one after one all the parents expressed their opinion.

"It has to be either at home or in the school. If it is girl, mother has to take charge or if it is the boy father has to take charge. But in most of the cases parents do feel cumbersome to tell such type of things to their children. So it would be quite better to have sex education classes in the school itself."

All the parents expressed their consent to that. "It is quite better to have it in the school itself." Almost all the parents there expressed like that.

"Then all you are agreeable to have sex education class weekly once in our school?" once Niranjan completed his speech and took his seat, Mrudanga Rao asked the parents there.

"Yes, yes, yes. We have no objection."

"It sure should be so."

"Children need it indeed"

"We agree with your opinion."

(..........to be continued)

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