There are many causes of STRESS. But in party politics, power games, entertainment, showbiz, performing arts, commercial art, writing, publishing, advertising, marketing and such businesses; the major cause of STRESS; is the insatiable and unending craze of propaganda (due to the dread of being ignored, neglected and dejected).

Even the “erudite, wise and spiritual” people amongst us; have fallen prey to propaganda and feel terribly handicapped, and at a major loss; in absence of propaganda!

Being cut off from our own selves and from the innate core of others; has made us caricatures of our selves. We have become unsatisfied and diffident about our convictions. Hence; if we get material success; then we become delirious and arrogant; and if we fail, then we become fragile and frustrated. But in both cases we are weak and starved of devoid of inner fulfillment. We are dependent on the crutches of propaganda for our survival!

Thus instead of capturing the excellence in our fields; we have become slaves and prisoners of bombastic banners, hollow hoardings, pitiable placards, preposterous posters, scandalous slogans and the deluge of cheap advertisements in print and electronic media and bloat with unfathomable pride and arrogance!

In short; the propaganda per se; is not bad. But the slavery of propaganda in preference to or at the cost of pursuit of excellence has definitely given rise to stress in all the walks of life.

In turn; the cancerous growth of this unproductive business of propaganda; that represents few elites in the society is flourishing at the cost of productive majority.

Such other businesses include commission agents, bureaucracy etc; and are pivotal in causing/precipitating the global growth of mercenary tendencies on the one hand; and dwindling buying capacity in the productive masses on the other; leading to global recession!

We have to understand that addiction of propaganda is as bad as any other addiction if not worse and not only does it handicap us; but it degenerates and perverts us! This addiction is like accepting the mastery of our own caricature or our shadow and meekly following it!

We still have a chance and a choice; to either become slaves of the propaganda; and spread our STRESS; or become free from such slavery and STRESS; through the pursuit of excellence in fields; by way of study and practice of holistic perspective, thinking, motivation and actions. This is Total Stress Management (the core of which is NAMASMARAN).

BUT WHAT IS NAMASMARAN?

Namasmaran usually embodies; remembering the name of God, Guru, great souls; such as prophets and whatever is considered as holy e.g. planets and stars. It is remembered silently, loudly, along with music, dance, along with breathing, in group or alone. Further, NAMASMARAN is either counted by some means such as fingers, rosary (called SMARANI or JAPAMALA), or electronic counter; or practiced without counting. The traditions vary from region to region and from religion to religion.

However the universal principle underlying
NAMASMARAN is to reorient our physiological and social being; with our true self and establish and strengthen the bond between; our physiological and social being; with our true self; and finally reunification or merger with our true self!

Since individual consciousness is the culmination of every activity in life; and NAMASMARAN the pinnacle of or culmination of individual consciousness; NAMASMARAN is actually opening the final common pathway to objective or cosmic consciousness; so that individual consciousness in every possible activity gets funneled into or unified with Him (our true self)!

Thus NAMASMARAN is in fact the YOGA of YOGA in the sense that it is the culmination of consciousness associated with every possible procedure and technique in the yoga that we are familiar with. It is the
YOGA of YOGA because it is the culmination of consciousness associated with all the activities in the universe, which it encompasses as well! It is YOGA of YOGA because everybody in the world irrespective of his/her tradition and the beliefs; would eventually, ultimately and naturally reach it; in the process of liberation. Even so called non believers also would not “miss” the “benefit of NAMASMARAN as they may remember true self through one symbol or another”!

Just as NAMASMARAN is YOGA of YOGA it is meditation of meditation also! This is because the natural and ultimate climax of every form of meditation; is remembering true self or merging with cosmic consciousness effortlessly!

These facts however have to be realized with persistent practice of NAMSMARAN and not blindly believed or blindly disbelieved with casual approach!

In short NAMSMARAN is super-bounty of cosmic consciousness for every individual to realize it (cosmic consciousness)! This is truly a super-bounty because a person, who experiences it, rises above mercenary, commercial and even professional and charity planes and manifest super- transactions in his or her life!

These are just few observations to give rough idea about what is NAMASMARAN. NAMASMARAN is an ocean of bliss. Its true meaning is beyond description in words and has to b experienced, not by one or few persons sporadically; but most preferably, by billions!

The last point is; NAMASMARAN would certainly enlighten, empower and enable some people; out of those billions practicing NAMASMARAN; to evolve, guide and consolidate the global conscience and thereby manifest global unity and harmony and justice, through globally benevolent proper policies!

References:
Namasmaran: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Sahasranetra: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Holistic Medicine: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Stress: Understanding and Management: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Conceptual Stress: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar


DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR