STRESS AND THE CALL OF GURU: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

When we are in unbearable stress and nothing appears to provide solace, when life appears to have gone in vein; and when past, present and future appear to be null and void; we tend to start “sinking”! Our life begins to appear to be a tragic story of deception and defeat! We seem to be miserable total losers, helpless and desperate for help.

Everything in our body, mind and in the world; appears to be going away, without ‘giving anything’. It appears to be totally dissociated from us; or in fact rejecting us. There is total isolation.

This condition; when nothing and nobody appear to provide urgently needed life line; is shattering, uprooting and devastating!

In such a dark and hopeless state of void; when we are gasping for life; we ‘experience’ a loving and assuring call from our innate core; which is enthralling and encompassing everything conceivable by our consciousness.

“Come on! My dear, I am your destination and destiny! I am your culmination! The millennia of your subjectivity are mere contingent in my omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent absolute consciousness. I am your true self! ”

This call fills our existence inside and out. It instantly connects us with everything hitherto “lost”! It transforms us from isolated drop to the entire ocean. It is enlivening and recharging; every molecule of body and in fact the whole being! It is distinct and unforgettable! It is haunting from within and without!

It is said that practice of NAMASMARAN enables us to listen to such a call of guru; and conversely, such a call of guru reinforces our motivation and interest in NAMASMARAN. We get empowered to proceed with NAMASMARAN far more buoyantly and help ourselves and the billions; simultaneously; to rejuvenate and blossom!