हवे व नको याचा आग्रह नसावा: डॉ. श्रीनिवास कशाळीकर

गोंदवलेकर महाराज म्हणतात, "हवे व नको याचा आग्रह नसावा. यातच वासनेचे मरण आहे".

आपण तत्वज्ञानाची पुस्तके वाचतो तेव्हा "अहं ब्रह्मास्मि" अर्थात आपले खरे स्वरूप ब्रह्म आहे असे वाचतो. पण रोजच्या जीवनात प्रमाणिकपणे आत्मनिरीक्षण केले तर काय आढळते? अगदी क्षुल्लक बाबींनी आपण हतबल होतो किंवा हुरळून जातो! याचा अर्थ आपण सर्वसमावेशक ब्रह्म नव्हे तर अगदी क्षुल्लक आहोत!

दोघात खरे काय?

आपण क्षुल्लक आहोत हेही खरे आणि आपण ब्रह्म आहोत हे खरे आहे!

आज आपण क्षुल्लक आहोत आणि त्यामुळे क्षुल्लक बाबींनी घाबरतो, दु:खी होतो, हतबल होतो किंवा हुरळून जातो, हे खरे आहे. पण त्याचप्रमाणे, आपले खरे स्वरूप ब्रह्म आहे, हे देखील खरे आहे! पण ते सुप्त आहे,आपल्याला आज जाणवत नाही, त्यामुळे आपण त्याला पारखे झालेलो आहोत!

ज्याप्रमाणे गुण प्रगट होण्यासाठी आपल्याला विशिष्ट अभ्यास करावा लागतो, त्याचप्रमाणे ब्रह्म प्रगट होण्यासाठी आपल्याला अभ्यास करावा लागतो!

नामस्मरण म्हणजेच आपल्या खऱ्या स्वरूपाचे स्मरण हाच तो अभ्यास! नामस्मरण सतत केले की आपल्या क्षुद्र्पणाची आवरणे गळून पडू लागतात आणि आपला "हवे नको याचा आग्रह" नाहीसा होऊ लागतो! रोजच्या जीवनात याचा आपण प्रसन्न अनुभव घेऊ शकतो आणि ब्रह्म प्रगट होण्याच्या अर्थात, खऱ्या शरणागतीच्या, आत्मानुभूतीच्या आणि विश्वकल्याणाच्या मार्गावर अग्रेसर होतो!

श्रीराम समर्थ!

SATISFACTION AND NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Student: Sir, in spite of years of practice of NAMASMARAN; I am still not able to experience what is described as satisfaction! What should I do?

Teacher: As far as I understand it, satisfaction is even more difficult than achievement of extraordinary feats.

Student: What do you mean?

Teacher: Practice of NAMASMARAN is actually a training of doing an activity where you do not get any tangible, predictable and measurable “benefit”! Being such a practice; NAMASMARAN actually transforms us to our original omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient state, which is totally devoid of any desires! This is an immortal state. But this may require not years and decades but even more.

Student: I don’t understand!

Teacher: When we are told that we should not expect anything; we think that we should not expect money, name, fame, power etc. So we stop expecting those things and start expecting satisfaction; because we think it is assured by Guru! But this concept of “getting” itself traps us! We mistakenly take the satisfaction referred to by our Guru, to be some kind of gratification and keep waiting for it; and are eventually disappointed!

Student: So what to do?

Teacher: Just as we breathe oxygen; we ought to practice NAMASMARAN. As per our stage of transformation our physical, emotional and intellectual needs, desires and aspirations have to be unhesitatingly and legitimately fulfilled through our own efforts; in the light of guidance and empowerment of inner voice i.e. our Guru! Actually our needs and desires go on changing or disappearing in the process of our transformation, without any coercion or suppression!

Student: In short, we should not expect anything, even happiness, peace, satisfaction from NAMASMARAN?

Teacher: It may appear strange. But it is true! For example, when we feel cold, we "want" or we "desire" warm clothes. But how can we want warm clothes or warmth from NAMASMARAN, which transforms us to our original state of being “fire”? Moreover once we become fire, how can we experience the warmth of warm clothes?
Hence NAMASMARAN is said to be for the sake of NAMASMARAN only!

Student: Sir, this is quite different from the emotional exuberance of millions of devotees!

Teacher: Actually, most of us are in need of some solace, some peace; some escapism and so on. Hence we try to cling to some tradition, some cult and feel secure in it. Often we infatuate piety, devotion, surrender, blessings, bounty, freedom from instincts; etc as these are our emotional crutches. We seek some social acceptability, social recognition and some social cohesiveness. There is nothing objectionable in it.

But for me; NAMASMARAN is a straight forward and transcientific process of individual and universal blossoming, i.e. “holistic evolution” over and above “organic evolution”. Hence my Guru Shri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavalekar says that practice of NAMASMARAN is for the sake of NAMASMARAN only!

GLOBAL GURU KRUPA: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

My guru Shri Gondavalekar Maharaj taught throughout his life; that NAMASMARAN is the way of individual and universal emancipation.

But we don't see expected results in our personal life and global life as an effect of NAMASMARAN. This creates doubt!

Gradually we learn to appreciate that our comprehension is limited and fallible whereas the GRUKRUPA; in personal as well as global terms is accurate and beyond our imagination and often different from our predictions! We realize that it is our inevitable privilege to be immersed in NAMASMARAN and NAMASMARAN is an incoming and blissfully unstoppable global spring!

Blessed and privileged are those of us, who realize this; and rejoice in welcoming this spring, by practicing NAMASMARAN and globalizing it; by sharing its grandeur with others in one way or another!