STRESS AND ROMANCE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

The STRESS; caused by hunger, thirst, sexual deprivation, lack of shelter, illiteracy, ill health, and lack of overall freedom to blossom at individual and global levels; if mismanaged; damages (besides other aspects); the most vital aspect of our life; the romance!

Romance is the vital sap. Romance is the fuel. Romance is the energy. Romance is the light. Romance is life.

If the vital sap of romance ascends from the roots of our life tree to the top; then our life tree blossoms with romance! If the water of romance gets short circuited or gets leaked on the way, then gradually the romance in life desiccates and life degenerates.

All the excitement; thrill, exhilaration of blossoming of romance; is essentially the ascent of this sap! In absence of this ascent we become caricatures of ourselves; dry and devoid of romance.

The first or immediate sufferers of our mismanaged stress; are our mother, father, brothers, sisters, fiancée, spouse, children.

The next to suffer are our servants, employers, and friends and so on. Subsequently our mismanaged stress harms our institution, village, town, city, province, nation and the whole world. The suffering is however not necessarily in a specific sequence!

The romance desiccates due to the stress of contradiction in preaching of asceticism, austerity, penance, sacrifice; on the one hand; and the natural attraction of the majesty, grandeur, glamour, glitter, pleasures, fun, excitement, joy and thrill; involved in epicurean or hedonist way of life.

Romance evaporates also because of the conflict between the compulsion to study the curricular subjects such as science, engineering, medical subjects, mathematics, geography, history, civics, grammars etc and the natural attraction for the intensely romantic other activities.

Traditional practice of NAMASMARAN enables us; to evolve the concept of holistic education as had been done by Mahatma Gandhi.

Holistic education is a way of earning and enjoying and hence an opportunity. There is no pressure of preaching and compulsion of studies! Holistic education is total blossoming and conscious evolutionary transformation, where the sap of romance ascends up to its destination!

This makes us more objective. We conquer the fetishes, dogmas, whims, fancies, obstinacy, and adamancy. We fulfill our life in every possible way; as we become open, considerate and understanding; in our perspective, thinking, feelings and behavior; with everyone around.