Dear S.,
The best thing to do at your age would be:
Read books that uplift and inspire us towards spiritual things.
Spend some time quietly seeking the true aim of your life. The aim is not to be confused with the job or events and circumstances of your life that you may want in a particular way. Aim is something intrinsic. It is like a thirst or a cry, a seeking in your being. It helps if this seeing takes a clear form in you. For example why do you want to seek the Divine, what is your idea of the Divine.
Learn to concentrate on whatever work is at hand without regard to likes and dislikes, preferences etc. Do it with full focus of your energies on it as a worship of the Divine in creation. Do it with full attention as if this is the thing that God has given you at this moment to work upon. If you can thus develop your concentration then it will become easy to concentrate within when the time for that arrives.
Take out some time everyday, may be just about 10 to 15 minutes when you sit and try to meditate upon an idea such as the idea of Divine, of Love, of Wisdom, of Peace. Pick up any idea that moves you to the core and spend this time letting your thoughts run around this idea.
Start a diary which can be for you your own personal communication with the Divine. write your feelings, hopes, aspirations, difficulties, in short everything that touches you deeply as if you were writing a letter to the Divine Mother.
Pray when you wake up offering gratitude and asking for help for the day. Pray when you sleep asking for a good and restorative sleep. Pray before you eat and study and play asking for progress towards beauty, harmony, light, truth.
Do some physical exercise everyday.
Do these things and stay in touch.
affectionately
alok da
