QUOTIENT OF SATISFACTION (QOS): DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Quotient of satisfaction (QOS) is a ratio of; the extent of satisfaction to the amount of efforts put in.

It is true that both; the amount of our satisfaction and the amount of efforts put in by us; cannot be ‘measured’ exactly in routine units! This is because the evaluation of the satisfaction and the efforts; is more a matter of subjective perception; than laboratory investigation or assessment.

Nevertheless; both our satisfaction and our efforts; are a concrete reality and not ambiguous or illusory phenomena. Hence; they can certainly be ‘quantified’ by us!

The satisfaction can be measured by virtue of physiological symptoms and signs (such as those resulting from the autonomic nervous system stimulation); and efforts can be measured in terms of time, energy and money spent by us; respectively.
Besides the symptoms and signs; the satisfaction can be roughly gauged by the subjective perception of intensity and duration of satisfaction; and the number of people involved in it. The efforts can be gauged by the perception of the difficulty, strain, pain and stress; besides the time, energy and money.

This understanding although in different semantics; is a universal legacy passed on to us through generation to generation; by our ancestors; world over! They have observed and experienced that NAMASMARAN, JAP, JAAP, SIMARAN, SUMIRAN i.e. remembering one’s self (for atheists) and God (for the theists); is a key to multiplying the QOS; in every moment and in every activity of life.

Whether this holds true for us or not; can be and has to be verified; and not merely believed or disbelieved!

NAMAVIJAY1: DR. SHRINIWAS JANARDAN KASHALIKAR

When I am confined to body, instincts, feelings and thoughts related to friends, relatives; status, institution, organization, party, country etc; it is a realm of individual, personal or subjective state! In this state I have urge not only to survive but to do everything possible to flourish, be powerful and dominate others!

In this state I go through the cycles of excitation and depression. But irrespective of the grandeur of the success or failure and achievement or loss; I always remain weak and unsatisfied. I am always plagued by fear, anxiety, worry, anger, grief, guilt, elation and so on!

I remain; a mortal, ordinary, subjective and hence fallible creature in obliviousness to NAMA, which is the deepest ocean of bliss beyond my body, instincts, feelings and thoughts related to friends, relatives; status, institution, organization, party, country etc! NAMA is beyond the realm of individual, personal or subjective state! It is truly all powerful, it is universal and it is unifying.

Being associated with this omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent bliss viz. NAMA; is the grace of NAMA (Guru) and is victory (VIJAY) of NAMA and hence we call it NAMAVIJAY!

NAMAVIJAY-3: DR. SHRINIWAS JANARDAN KASHALIKAR

Why do things happen differently? Why do people behave differently? Why everything appears to go on without any reference to our like or dislike? Is this not frustrating?

It is frustrating, if we do not realize the fact that; NAMA is in everyone’s heart! It writes the script! For every being in the universe; there is a script; contingent in NAMA! This timed unfolding and unraveling of the script is GURUKRUPA! Since my Guru Shri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavalekar knew and always maintained that his immortal self; is inseparable from NAMA; we can call this NAMAKRUPA also!

In fact; there is a script for everything including houses, villages, provinces and nations! NAMAKRUPA manifests in the form of NAMASMARAN according to the specific script in all these!

We often feel helpless because of the inevitability of the life we have to go through! The physical, instinctual, emotional and intellectual problems followed by increasingly holistic but still unsatisfactory solutions from time to time; make us feel slave like; and hence even more miserable; in absence of anticipated results!

But; the realization that it was a script contingent in the NAMA the eternal ocean of bliss in our heart; sets us free! In fact; the restlessness, anxiety, worry, tension and the harrowing burden; begin to disappear! This also happens as per the script!

NAMA extends its bounty in the form of the process of NAMASMARAN and we begin to get absorbed in NAMA; through the practice of NAMASMARAN! This is the greatest solution, the panacea, flowing from NAMA!

For us; this process is the fulfilling culmination of all our aspirations known and unknown; and identified and unidentified!

This victory (VIJAY) over the forces of darkness is full of innate assurance! It is warm, rejuvenating and reassuring! Since this victorious innate assurance is flowing from NAMA; we call this; NAMAVIJAY!