TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT AND TIME: DR. SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

As we study stress; and Total Stress Management; the ‘stress of the passage of time’; strikes our attention! This stress may not be easily noticed as it is a bit subtle.

But the painful and stressful feelings of nostalgia; are often soul stirring and the subject of art and literature!

Can we bring back the golden moments shared with our brothers, sisters, parents and grandparents?

Can we bring back the childhood friends, adolescent love and more mature romance?

Don’t we have this agonizing experience of loss of time; and our inability and helplessness to resist its passage? Don’t we get emotional; while going down the memory lane?

The concept of time is an enigma; a mystery; in several ways.

A continuous process; of changes in the world and in one’s body; stimulates various receptors in different tissues of the body, followed by modifications in neuro-humoral secretions, metabolism and consciousness; associated with them!

As a result; we experience things and events. Further; they last “long” or “short” and become unbearable or absorbing! But they are always fleeting! Time is thus a passing, fleeting or relative reality.

It could also be other way round! The absolute consciousness; may have universal intelligence and universal mind, which are “followed” by the individual consciousness, which brings about; “time determined and time dependent” modifications; in neuro-humoral secretions, metabolism and body!

It is said; that the time, space and the universe (including every being); are contingent in the absolute consciousness.

Can we can verify; if; through NAMASMARAN (the core of Total Stress Management); we can go beyond subjective individual consciousness (ego) and the “stressful helplessness” of playing in the hands of “time” and the three dimensions and engender God’s plan or holistic renaissance?

Putting it other way round; “Is it not the plan of the Absolute consciousness; or God; to free us from the subjectivity; and the shackles of individual consciousness (ego) and the stressful helplessness of playing in the hands of “time” and the three dimensions; by providing the bounty of NAMASMARAN, (JAP, JAAP, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN or remembering the name of God i.e. true self)?