STRESS RATIONALISM AND ATHEISM DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
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One of the causes of stress; in individual and social life; is; division in the society into theists (believers) and atheists (disbelievers); believers and disbelievers in a reality beyond the realm of individual's (so called) wisdom; respectively.

One of the all time geniuses and devoutly worshiped as the God Himself; Jnaneshvar Maharaj (13th century) explains this dilemma. He writes in in Amrutanubhav (Literally; "Experience of Immortality"):

परी आणिका का आपणया
न पुरे विखो होआवया
म्हणोनी न असावया
कारण की
श्लोक 32, प्रकरण 4, अमृतानुभव.
ग्रंथकार: ष्री ज्ञानेश्वर महाराज.t

The essence in English:
The ultimate reality (God, Paramatma etc); is beyond the realm and horizons of human conceptualization and consciousness. Hence many find enough reason to negate the reality and become atheists.

The essence (भावार्थ) in Marathi:
परमात्मा स्वत:ला; ( खुद्द परमात्म्याला) किंवा दुसर्‍याला; ( जाणीवेच्या कक्षेत सामावला जाउन); "जाणण्याचा विषय; म्हणजे ज्ञेय बाब" होऊ शकत नाही. त्यामुळे तो नाहीच असे मानण्यास व म्हणण्यास ( बाह्यत:, वरपांगी पाहता; सबळ) कारण मिळते.

(The atheists disapprove the "existence of God" and "theism". They dismiss the universally benevolent ways of realizing this reality; viz. NAMASMARAN, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN, JAAP, JAP, POOJA; as useless or counterproductive. They thus fanatically believe "their own understanding as the ultimate reality".

The theist or believers; who do not know that ultimate reality is "Experience of Immortality" believe in their own imagination a kind, merciful and protector God as ultimate reality.

The TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT requires that we rise above such theism and atheism...and simply follow the practice of NAMASMARAN, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN, JAAP, JAP; as instructed by our GURU, the immortal reality personified".