After decades of thinking and working on TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT I have begun to realize that the best way of stress management should have certain merits.

It should be possible and feasible for maximum people, except extremes; such as embryos, newborn, comatose or mentally challenged individuals.

It should not be a matter of selling, buying, marketing, advertising, bargaining, exploiting, and so on.

It should not cause any financial loss.

It should not have any undesirable side effects.

It should not be painful or discomforting.


It should not be a nuisance to others, including those who belong to other religions, other faiths, other ideologies etc.

It should involve intellectual surrender, though it may not fit in one’s subjective rationality.

It should not be conducive to dependence, parasitism, lethargy, indolence, passivity, inaction and discord in society.

It should be natural, like blossoming of a plant and emanation of the fragrance.

It should be conducive to growth and evolution; enhancing dynamic harmony in individual and universal life.

In simple words, Total Stress Management should be like the breast feeding, which plays; “life building and life blossoming role” in the infant even if he/she does not realize it! The guru is called, mauli (mother), because he/she feeds the divine sap of NAMASMARAN i.e. remembrance and reorientation to one’s true self, to generations after generations.

Neither the believers nor the disbelievers are free from stress.

The conflict between belief and disbelief; and between petty and universal self, inside (in the needs, instincts, feelings and thoughts) and outside (personal and social behavior); and the resultant stress continue to trouble till the believers and nonbelievers are trapped in petty self.

However,
When the believers and nonbelievers evolve into selfless, independent and universal self, through “freedom” from petty self, the stress inside (needs, instincts, feelings and thoughts) and outside (personal and social behavior) begins to disappear!


To ascertain and experience this “total stress management” or “superliving”; one has to give top priority to practice and propagation of NAMASMARAN, amidst rest of the hustle and bustle of life.

When we are trapped in the dilemma of what we expect from ourselves; and what we actually feel and do; we get stressed.

We try to overcome such stress by “assuming to be” “what we think we should be” rather than being what we are, (which is very difficult)!

This is hypocrisy!

Similarly when we get “pulled” between what others should think or believe us to be and what we believe we are; we get stressed!

We try to manage such stress by hiding things which we think people would not approve; and show, exhibit and advertise things which we think people would appreciate!
This is also hypocrisy!

Often we condemn others for being hypocrites. But most of us are hypocrites. This is because we do not understand ourselves and we do not understand whether others understand us not! Actually it is impossible to “know” ourselves and also other selves! The “self” of every one of us is beyond intellectual definition and concrete and constant identity. It is not even possible to understand our own and others’ perceptions, because they are not too subtle and changing!

The phenomenon of assuming to be somebody and phenomenon of posing to be somebody (hypocrisy) further add to our stress; rather than freeing us from stress!

The fact that hypocrisy; thus actually makes us miserable; becomes clear, through the process of absorbing or recollecting our essence (self); trapped in our subjective thinking, feeling and needs; through the practice of NAMASMARAN.

One need not believe in this but verify for oneself if one desires to do so.

The stress is universal. It is ubiquitous. It is natural. It is inseparable from life. However; if it is not managed properly then it becomes detrimental to individual and global blossoming and even survival. Hence it has to be managed properly.

Stress has been managed in many ways for millennia. The ways of stress management have been changing as the life and the nature of stress have been changing. Since the nature of life is vast and complex the nature of stress is also vast and complex. Hence the traditions, customs, conventions, commandments, decrees, laws, rules, regulations, administration, etiquettes and manners; on the one hand; and scientific inventions, discoveries, artistic creations and other modes of elevating, exhilarating, entertaining, consoling and soothing life on the other; have limitations in terms of stress management (even though they have contributed tremendously in stress management; in the past)!

All these ways of stress management can come closer to accuracy and hence achieve greater effectiveness if they spring from and are coordinated and orchestrated by ever renewed self realization i.e. cosmic consciousness, in the new generations!

In fact, self realization i.e. merging with cosmic consciusness; enables us to express the enlightenment in every walk of life so that above said coordination, orchestration and harmonization in every field through out the world becomes possible. In other words individual and global stress management (Total Stress Management) becomes possible.

The way for merging with cosmic consciousness is NAMASMARAN.

It is true that thousands of people are practicing NAMSMARAN and many of them are merging with cosmic consciousness and expressing their enlightenment in various walks of life. But this practice of NAMASMARAN i.e. process of self realization has to be universal so that the laws governing the universal life become conducive to self realization i.e. individual and global blossoming.

In the field of law, there are; many laws, which are coercive, restrictive, throttling, suffocating and create hindrance to individual and global blossoming on one hand; and many laws conducive to individual and global blossoming; are grimly missing; on the other!

The laws regarding education, health, agriculture, industries and so on; should be such; that they enhance self realization i.e. individual and global blossoming and dispel the degenerating, debilitating and destructive forces. For instance:

1. Concept of Self realization (holistic (universal) perspective, policy making, planning and execution)
2. Concepts of Holistic health Holistic Medicine
3. Productive Domain in Education
4. Plantation of suitable or feasible plants
5. Conviction of the demerits, disadvantages and dangers of the perspective, policies, planning and laws and regulations; leading to “individualistic and consumerist progress” (e.g. unabated felling of trees, excessive production and marketing of personal transport vehicles and barbaric and brutal slaughtering of animals)
must be part of all kinds of education.

Everything other than NAMASMARAN; “marketed and sold”, “hyped and imposed” and “glorified and infused”; for “stress management or stress relaxation”; such as meditation techniques, rituals, equipments, commodities etc.; are subjective, escapist, sectarian, ad hoc, superficial and neglect or ridicule the above mentioned aspects of Total Stress Management and hence; in the presence of NAMASMARAN they can be temporarily beneficial (palliative symptomatic) and in the absence of NAMASMARAN, the prove to be either counterproductive or useless!

Can the whirlwind know the direction of its velocity and acceleration?

Can the earthquake know its epicenter?

Can the earth know the direction of movement?

Can the body know the nature of intermolecular forces?

Can the deer know the location of musk?

We keep on darting intellectually, emotionally, instinctually and physically without knowing the culmination, which is the “merger” with the core of individual and universal existence!

Stress may continue even after the “musk is located”, but the “stress” does not remain “stress” anymore!