The change of anything new is always a time of great ferment and great expectations, and when the new century also marks the dawn of a new millennium our expectations are likely to be especially intense. Optimism makes us thinks that the new is always bound to be better than the old, that the arrival of the new year or century will inevitably bring our deepest dreams to fulfillment.
New millennium marks the change of time and calendar. Similarly, the state of youth [3] marks the change in human life. Youth is the period of Human life that has tremendous potentialities for its impact, good or bad, on modern societies. According to Oxford English Dictionary a youth not only indicates the changing period of childhood and adult age but also means new, freshness, vigour, wantonness, rashness, etc. which are the typical characteristics of a youth. Youth is a time when most drastic changes take place in human life both physically and psychologically. Youth is not only a crucial period of human life but they are also the future builders of a society. They are future administrators, planners, engineers, doctors, teachers, artists, religious leaders and so on. Youth are full of energy and they are the real force of changes in a society. Therefore, youth itself designates a changing force in society both progress and regress.
Prince Siddhartha who was born here at Lumbini twenty-six centuries ago renounced the life of the palace and entered the forest as a hermit seeking a solution to the problem of suffering when he was youth. Later he was enlightened and he founded Buddhism when he was still in his youthful age. It is clear from the teachings of the Buddha that he always emphasizes on the potentiality of youth. For example, Buddha says, 'Having led neither a good life nor acquired wealth (spiritual) in youth, they pine away as aged herons around a fish less pond or they lie about like broken bows sighing about the past' (Dhammapada 155/156).
