NAMASMARAN AND HELPLESSNESS: DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Student: Sir, sometimes I feel helpless for a strange reason!
Teacher: What is it?
Student: Sir, I get sunken in questions; “How did I get into today; from yesterday; without any specific intention? Has anyone “transported” me irrespective of my wish from yesterday into today? Who is He? In fact; who made me live from my childhood up till now? Who made me feel, think and act?”
As these questions overpower and engulf me! I get terrified and helpless! I get shattered as I appear to lose everything - my possessions, my status, my passions, my feelings, my thoughts, my qualities, my values, my missions, my people and even the devotion and dedication for NAMA that I cherished for decades! My inner world full of love, justice, freedom and joy; appears deserted! This void is killing! I feel as if I cease to exist!
Teacher: Indeed your puzzle is uncommon! Very few people may be facing this!
The reason for your questions is this. We, who are actually beyond time; are trapped and wrapped in time, space and energy and the sensations, instincts, feelings and thoughts. This is actually trivialization of our selves. But this happens in most of us.
As a result we get addicted to this caricature state; and all the subjectivity and/or pettiness inherent to it!
As and when our true self - NAMA; involves us in its SMARAN i.e. NAMASMARAN, we begin to get deaddicted to our caricature state. But this deaddiction is painful. It does not happen as smoothly as we would have liked it! There are hiccups!
Your “helplessness and sinking” is the result of the “abstinence syndrome”, as is seen initially; in a drug addict, when denied a drug!
Student: Does everyone go through such deaddiction?
Teacher: Everyone goes through this process but variably. Everyone may not confront with the same questions and the same experiences. But this happens in every being and is often experienced by many as some inexplicable and indescribable restlessness referred to as; VISHVAACHE AARTA by Saint Dnyaneshvar.
Student: Can this happen due to physical pains?
Teacher: This happens due to the experience of physical pains, transient nature of pleasures, nostalgia of lost moments, dejected feeling due to alienation from the global events; and so on! All this is due to the process of “our retrieval to original state; from our amalgamation” with our caricature existence.
Student: What should I do?
Teacher: Always remember that the future road map is inbuilt in this state! The NAMA, true self or Guru; would involve you in NAMASMARAN and “restore” you from body and senses; to you original subtle nature! You WOULD get freed from the “hitherto cherished possessions as well as your caricature self”! Ultimately when you become the void itself, you would find NO VOID; BUT the whole universe TO BE within you!

ELECTIONS AND NAMASMARAN DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Student: Sir! I find it difficult to concentrate on NAMASMARAN amidst the cacophony of election fever!
Teacher: The elections and the people involved in them directly or indirectly are doing their job according to their perceptions and their capacities. We should do our job according to our perceptions and our capacities!
Student: But I get disturbed because; it appears to me that I am not getting involved in the process of ushering in the golden age for India!
Teacher: The process of NAMASMARAN is central and crucial to golden age! In absence of it the ‘golden age’ would become sectarian and subjective!
Student: Are you sure?
Teacher: I am cent per cent sure!
Student: But why does the practice of NAMASMARAN appear irrelevant?
Teacher: That is because we are still far away from our inner ocean of light and power - the NAMA! We need victorious and steadfast efforts to practice and propagate NAMASMARAN!
Student: Thank you Sir! I shall try my best!

QUESTIONS AND NAMASMARAN :DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

The animals don’t seem to think about what, why, how, where, when where etc. A new born baby also does not seem to think that way.
But for some reason or the other; many of us are drowned in such questions for their life time! In fact; these questions are considered to be the backbone of learning. Even the fine arts, which otherwise seem to require no questions; on keener observation; are found to be enriched through these questions.
In short; human civilization and its development would not have been what it is today; in absence of these questions.
But interestingly, in the process of getting answers to many questions; we get entangled in newer questions; in the field of technology, science, art, ethics, philosophy and son!
The when the universe originated, why it originated, till where it extends, how it functions, what its purpose is; are all unknown. Naturally there are some efforts to provide answers, but they are obviously unsatisfactory.
All questions and answers; born from our instincts, feelings and thoughts even though unavoidable; are incomplete and do not yield ultimate fulfillment.
The past, present and future of “me”, every living being and the infinite universe are not known. There is a frightening and unending dark vacuum. But NAMASMARAN takes us to a realm of questionless completeness and fulfillment viz. NAMA, our Guru. He encompasses our past, present and future and is our final destination; contingent in whom is the creation and destruction of “me” and everything else.