BEING NISHKAMA: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Being NISHKAMA appears to be painful, as we are usually under the impression that presence of KAMA and fulfillment of KAMA are the integral to life and life without KAMA and fulfillment of KAMA is actually vanity.
Knowingly or unknowingly we are repeatedly dragged in painful pessimism because of the triviality of our individuality and its utterly unnoticeable achievements in personal or social life; from the state of excitement and arrogance in our petty success! Strangely, neither we are freed from the desires nor are we satisfied by the fulfillment of the desires!
However; in the course of time; NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering NAMA is automatically associated with the fulfilling appreciation of the universal, eternal and victorious benevolence of NAMA! This fulfilling appreciation is so powerful that our desires and expectations i.e. KAMA, which are usually associated with our trivial activities, literally get dissolved in it! This is called VAIRAGYA SHRIMANTI or VAIRAGYA VAIBHAV, which means supreme richness of being NISHKAMA or being completely selflessness! This is why, the key to individual and universal blossoming, is NAMASMARAN!

MYSTERY OF DEVOTION: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

We are often desperate to spread our conviction about NAMA and NAMASMARAN!
Why is this so?
This is because, even as we are convinced for years together that NAMASMARAN is the key to individual and universal blossoming, we do not have the experience of 1) the continuous universal grace of NAMA, 2) the ecstatic romance involved in NAMASMARAN and 3) most importantly its supreme and pivotal role in individual and universal blossoming.
But at some point in time, we get; 1) the glimpse of the universal grace of NAMA, 2) the ecstatic romance involved in NAMASMARAN and 3) most importantly the supreme and pivotal role of this romance in individual and universal blossoming.
At this point, we are “promoted” to the status of being romantically involved in NAMASMARAN, from the status of “understanding its importance; and practicing and spreading it”!
With this promotion we feel happy that we could practice and spread NAMASMARAN without being disheartened, cynical, indolent and escapist about it! We feel happy in the realization that while we are promoted to the status of being romantically involved in NAMASMARAN, the spread of the importance of NMASMARAN is actually multiplied, by the divine hand, without us being apparently involved in it!
We begin to get freed from our obsession, as we become aware of the infinitely more powerful mighty hand of God involved in universalization of NAMASMARAN!

BEYOND SENILITY: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

In modern days aging is a major concern. There is a definite fear about aging and senility. There is a feeling of helplessness.
This is because; we take into account our physical characteristics such as our looks, our strength, our sexual potency, sexual charm etc. while considering the aging and senility. All these deteriorate and hence we get frustrated. Moreover; our intellectual capacity diminishes and our mind becomes weak and fickle! So, we feel miserable as aging advances.
But a person who practices NAMASMARAN, counts his or her life in terms of the count of NAMA! Since the count of NAMA goes on increasing with age, he or she feels increasingly satisfied even in the presence of debilitating symptoms of aging! This is like getting something far more valuable and far more endearing in exchange of something of relatively lesser value and of lesser concern!
In fact, this is like entering in a new and beautiful house, while the old is getting dilapidated and nearing collapse.
It can also be compared to returning to mother NAMA; after prolonged separation and being in the veil of the step mother viz. the body senses and the illusions created by them, which is undergoing aging and senility! Naturally the practitioner of NAMASMARAN, who is now in the perceptibly caring custody of Guru Mauli (NAMA); is increasingly fulfilled even amidst the aging and senility!

FULFILLMENT: DR. SHRINIWAS JANARDAN KASHALIKAR

Food, clothes, shelter, health care, sports, education, job, good salary, status symbols, marriage, children, power, fame, popularity, awards….are sought after with variable priorities. We seek them as a matter of compulsions of body, instincts, emotions and intelligence.
If we are still restless, then it is because, whether we succeed or fail, we get fulfillment which is temporary.
Later; if we discover that NAMASMARAN is the panacea, then we are possessed by the mission of practice and promotion of NAMASMARAN. If we are able to articulate our views, then we get involved in writing.
We are happy by accomplishment of accurate and appropriate drafting, its impeccable proof reading, its corrections, its editing and finally its completion, printing and publication. But this is also temporary and associated with the anxiety about the feedback!
This anxiety increases; as there is no way, by which we can ascertain how many people actually read, how many of them and how much they really understand and how they respond to it from within!
Later; the anxiety multiplies as the feedback of the readers and their participation in the practice and promotion of NAMASMARAN is uncertain.
The anxiety further multiplies as we do not notice the benevolence of NAMASMARAN in the form of globally benevolent policies, plans, programs and their implementation; as envisaged by us.
The evils in our own lives and in social life; seem to be unending!
Around this time; it becomes clear that there is no way to ascertain; whether what we find in the policies, plans, programs and implementation is appropriate or not. As a result we are confronted with a question; “Is what appears to be contrary to our anticipation; actually a divine plan or it requires rectification; and we are falling short in our duty?”
Gradually it becomes clear that our ideas about the policies, plans, programs and their implementation are not constant! They keep changing! In fact; we are changing, our ideas are changing and our perceptions are changing!
The restlessness is a result of our entrapment in the inevitably changing individuality! It would not disappear by arbitrary planning; to “live in present”!
Now; we begin to understand why it is said; that; we should do our duty (i.e. what we are motivated to do while we are in NAMASMARAN); and not get involved in the anticipation (which is subjective and changing) of the results (which are fleeting and beyond our conceptual framework).
At this point we understand but do not quite experience the true fulfillment in being completely immersed in the absolute reality; deep within us!
This absolute reality, beyond space, time and individual consciousness; hidden in our core; is the same as NAMA. Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavalekar, my Guru proclaimed that He is no different than NAMA and urged to practice NAMASMARAN with topmost priority.
This need to reconnect with NAMA; keeps dawning inside; from time to time; in spite our belligerence; and is the victory (VIJAY) of my Guru (NAMA), over the rest!

SIGNALS: DR. SHRINIWAS JANARDAN KASHALIKAR

When there is a beautiful object, exhilarating fragrance or melodious music at a distance; they are indistinct and blurred. But they attract us and keep haunting us!
What about the promising and revitalizing signals of events; in future?
When we sense the events in future; even indistinctly; they imperceptibly begin to enter our being and later; occupy either our artistic creativity or our conceptual framework! Gradually the ideas about these events get crystallized and we develop a distinct picture of future! This is called vision and it is nothing else; but the bounty of the trans-temporal truth, which we call NAMA.
The ‘architect’ of the future gives us, who are ‘masons’; this vision and involves us in constructing it! Hence we feel good and grateful, if and when we are involved in articulating the vision in the form of holistic evolution or holistic renaissance or expressing it in our creative art!
But neither the future nor its concepts; and neither the vision nor its construction; is actually our achievement.
They embody the victory (VIJAY) of NAMA the eternal trans-temporal truth, in charge all universal affairs.