TRIUMPH OVER TIME: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Physical pain, vertigo, nausea, physical deprivation, instinctual deprivation, emotional deprivation, intellectual turmoil and many such things are associated with suffering. Every a minute lived in suffering; leads to a reverberating activity in brain. Hence there is agony of the past incidence; and inexplicable anxiety and fear; of similar suffering in future!

When saints advise us to be satisfied in a given situation, it actually means; we should learn to conquer the circumstances i.e. not allow them to influence inadvertently; and cripple us!

The saints knew that this is very difficult; almost impossible; because the factors producing pain and fear; are very fast and work in the subconscious realm; like a guerilla attack! To overcome this attack one has to become subtler than �the process of perception of time�! This is not possible by resolutions! Hence the saints advise us; to remember the name of God. This activity is called NAMASMARAN, JAP, JAAP, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN etc.

What does it do?

It is hypothesized that; NAMASMARAN leads to a kind of enhanced and integrated encephalization. Grieves of past, concerns about the present and the worries of the future; are strong, subtle and extremely quick; because of the autonomic nervous and limbic system involvement. They are overcome; through integrated encephalization. This leads to the conquest over �the process of perception of time� and eradication of �dragging sensation� in one�s life.

NAMASMARAN gradually transforms us from our petty and individualistic perspective into cosmic one; and enables us; to overcome; the otherwise painful �personal and subjective� experiences of the past, present and the future (possibly by merging into the fourth dimension)!

This self less and objective state; is often associated with premonition, clairvoyance and so on; and elevation of the �individual life and vision� above the physiological limitations of the three dimensions. This is �triumph over time�!

Since this hypothesis cannot be verified by using animals, it has to be experimented by large number of human volunteers; spread all over the world, from different racial and religious backgrounds; and for sufficient time; with sincere involvement; before it can be generalized.

However; it may noted here; that; the concrete and objective experience of being one with the universe and transtemporal cosmic essence of life; is explicit in the 10th and 11th chapters of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita!