2. The “Active Peace” is a concept to
suggest desireless (absence of
subjective desire) desire i.e. objective
desire or 0 desires.
This is a stage in life. It can not be and
need not be arbitrarily imposed on
oneself.
But even as it is pleasant to those who
achieve it; it can not be imagined by
those of us who are engrossed in
material and sensual pleasures. In fact
those like us, who are engrossed in
sensual pleasure and the pursuits of
3. sensual pleasures, find it quite
dreadful to be “freed” from these
“pleasures”! This is a kind of
abstinence syndrome! One really
becomes miserable even with the
thought of such “freedom”!
This is why NAMASMARAN, which
binds you in something non sensuous
and ties you in painful abstinence of
the sensuous, is generally ridiculed as
foolish, escapist, nihilistic, “nonsense’
and erratic; by many!
4. In addition; in the initial stages of
NAMASMARAN; it also gives an
impression to submission, prostration,
defeat, surrender or prostration to
negation of oneself! In fact this
negation to oneself is actually
negation of ego, and is extremely
painful. For example if “I” want to
acquire, accumulate and indulge, then
this “I” gets “tortured” because of
NAMSMARAN and you find it as
painful as death itself.
DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
