NAMASMARAN AND VALUE EDUCATION DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Student: Sir, Why don’t you emphasize on value education; instead of NAMASMARAN?

Teacher: The idea of value education is subtly coercive and dictatorial, because it is almost always in conflict with an individual’s personality. It can be in conflict with one’s culture, religion, ideology, race, and nation and so on!

However, NAMASMARAN is like water, oxygen, electricity etc. It always stimulates growth and development. It never comes in conflict with anything. In fact; NAMASMARAN helps us to break the shell of our ego and get freed; from the egg we are otherwise confined to! It sets us free from all kinds of pettiness and sectarianism, which are the basic cause of discord, antipathy and strife.

Student: Do you think the value education is useless?

Teacher: Values are inculcated through an interaction between our innate core and what what we see, hear and experience. Hence exposure to excellence is always desirable useful; in as much as exposure to basal and barbaric elements is inevitable and harmful.

But artificial and arbitrary indoctrination of so called values is actually counterproductive just as mercenary hype of vulgarity and bigotry.

NAMASMARAN is unifying and liberating! It integrates an individual as well as blossoms him/her! It unities the world and harmonizes it!