TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT AND NAMASMARAN (JAP, JAAP, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN; i.e. remembering God or true SELF) 09: DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Patient: Sir! I have reasonably understood the nature of stress! I have also somewhat understood the role of Total Stress Management! Actually how many of us suffer from STRESS?
Doctor: Every one of us suffers from stress.
Patient: All of us?
Doctor: Yes! Life in every living being; is an extension of cosmic consciousness or cosmic life! This consciousness is intricately associated or rather trapped in the properties of physical matter! Physical matter (neurotransmitters, hormones, enzymes and other molecules and the interactions amongst them) has the property of entropy (atrophy, degeneration, degradation, disruption, deterioration and destruction).
Patient: Sir! You mean to say; this entropy is the cause of STRESS?
Doctor: Not merely the entropy as such! The life in us has tendency to merge with the cosmic consciousness on the one hand and tendency to get trapped in the property of the matter on the other! Thus we are actually caught between the upward (URDHVAGAMI) force that tends to unify us with our true self; and the downward (ADHOGAMI) force that LOCKS us in the influence of matter ( petty and subjective perspective, thinking, feeling and instincts).
Patient: Sir! Does this tussle between the upward and downward forces constitutes stress?
Doctor: Yes! Precisely! However some people do not believe that our individual life is an extension of the unifying cosmic consciousness! They believe that life has emerged from non-life!
Patient: Why don't they believe?
Doctor: They don't seem to see or experience; the glimpses of the source of everything and every being i.e. true SELF i.e. the immortal cosmic consciousness!
Patient: Sir, this is fine! But I am still not understanding the role of NAMASMARAN! Please explain further
Doctor: NAMASMARAN is a process of remembering NAMA i.e. the immortal cosmic consciousness i.e. God, Brahma or true SELF! This remembrance enhances the upward force and nullifies the downward force (born out of influence of matter) slowly but steadily!
Patient: It means; the animals would have stress, but won't be able to practice NAMASMARAN and enhance upward (URDHVAGAMI) forces and hence won't be able to manage stress! Is it true?
Doctor: You are absolutely right! But it is documented that; in the company of those, who have transcended the matter; even the animals get benefited!
Patient: How does this aid in Total Stress Management?
Doctor: As the upward (URDHVAGAMI) force supersedes the pettiness born out of the influence of matter, our perspective, thinking, feelings and instincts blossom! Our policies, plans, programs and their implementation; become more and more unprejudiced, objective, accurate and globally benevolent! Such blossoming in individual and universe; is DHARMA!
Patient: Sir! This is wonderful! Now i am beginning to understand; how NAMASMARAN is crucial to Total Stress Management!
Doctor: I will explain it further as we begin to study the stress and its management in greater details and depth!