LOVE AND NAMASMARAN DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Love is oxygen of life. But unlike the oxygen gas; it is mysterious. It is not clearly and completely understood by even those who experience it. It is beyond reasoning and logic.

Love between; husband and wife, mother and baby; have always been the central themes of many great novels, plays, films, paintings, sculptures, dances, poetry etc. But in all these; love is also associated with tracery, cheating, hatred, dread and vengeance.

In fact; in our personal life also; we often have love and hate relationship.

Why is this so? Why is life apparently so much in contrast to the ideals of love and peace?

This is because love and hate is a product of physiological, biochemical, psychological and social factors. Love and hate result from the involuntary autonomic, neuroendocrine, endocrine and metabolic activities. Love and hate happens to most of us. It is not “done” by us. Involuntary love and hate determine our attitudes, predispositions, ideologies and personal and social behavior.

Only a small minority goes through (rather quickly) the stages of BADDHA, MUMUKSHU, SADHAK and SIDDHA and variably transcends the physiological and other factors. This minority and its personal and social behavior; are far less influenced by involuntary “love and hate”.

NAMASMARAN being the simplest and universally acceptable activity; its increasing practice, promotion and prevalence increases the proportion of this small minority.

In personal life; NAMASMARAN helps us transcend our physiological and other factors; and makes us less vulnerable to various external factors (e.g. to being manipulated sexually, emotionally, politically, financially and so on). This helps us to perceive the world more objectively and provide more holistic solutions to individual and global problems.