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NAMASMARAN

   AND

 STRESS

    DR.
 SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
NAMASMARAN & NEUROSIS
Indulgence and asceticism, atheism and theism, romance
    and renunciation; and such variety of apparently
 conflicting phenomena render completion to life. If you
    try to take away anyone of these, the life appears
                      incomplete.

  In fact even as I was convinced intellectually about the
   value of NAMSMARAN in life and wrote books on it
right from 1992, one of the major hurdles in appreciating
        and experiencing the cosmic benevolence of
   NAMASMARAN was its depiction (or my erroneous
   perception of the depiction) as an activity of elderly,
     neurotic, inactive, pessimists, escapists and failed
   individuals. Even the books, movies, and dramas on
    saints and bhakti sangeet (devotional music) made
 saintly life and the practice of NAMASMARAN appear
  miserable and pathetic. I never thought this was the A
      grade happiness, implied in spiritualism or self
                         realization.

 Partly because of this and partly because of the social
  justice and freedom implied in the atheism, which I
cherish even today, I could not be involved completely in
  any particular theist tradition of NAMASMARAN.

 But even as I, due to my repulsion for the pathetic life
  style (as depicted or interpreted by me) felt material
pleasures could not be amputated arbitrarily from one’s
life if one were to evolve healthily, I was not at ease even
in the “best” of petty pleasures, which could at best give
    B grade pleasure, not A grade happiness, which is
 implied in (though often ignored) and must be integral
                   part of global justice.

Thus neither could I identify myself with the ascetics nor
with the materialists. I kept on vacillating from one side
              to another like a pendulum.

But now it is more than clear, that NAMASMARAN is a
panacea, it is an objective phenomenon and it can not be
the monopoly of any one camp such as ascetic, indulgent,
        theist, atheist, scientific, religious and so on.
 It is an objective phenomenon with cosmic benevolence
  for blossoming of one and all. It is as objective and as
 vital for human blossoming, as the oxygen is for human
                               life.
It is beyond science, religion and philosophy. It is beyond
human thought. It is a matter of practice and experience,
              not belief, feeling or imagination.

 NAMASMARAN connects you to the center of life,
time and cosmic consciousness, i.e. with your true
 self. NAMASMARAN (according to one’s tradition)
     is the privileged express highway to realize
maximum potentials in every possible way, for one
                        and all!
NAMASMARAN, A MAHAYOG, A
              MEGAFUSION,
           EK MAHASAMANVAY
                         I feel that

 NAMASMARAN means remembering the name of God,
  i.e. one’s innate and true self and thus helps to blossom
    from petty self into cosmic self in the course of time!

 Namasmaran links all the faculties in an individual and
   helps him evolve integrity between thoughts, feelings,
                   instincts and actions.

      Namasmaran cements the generation gap with
                consideration and love.

 Namasmaran helps to rise above petty whims and fancies
      and enjoy sublime bonds of love amongst family
              members, relatives and friends.
     Namasmaran wields the bonds of understanding
   amongst people of different professions and of different
                           strata.

   Namasmaran builds lasting bonds amongst people of
                   different regions.

  Namasmaran builds the bridges of acceptance and love
             amongst different religions.
 Namasmaran helps in uniting different races.
 Namasmaran helps in nurturing love between people of
               different nationalities.

 Namasmaran brings the actual spiritualism in day today
     life in every walk of life i.e. actually catalyzes the
       reunification of spiritualism and materialism.

 Namasmaran therefore is MAHAYOG, MEGAFUSION
              OR MAHASAMANVAY

        I would be obliged if the practitioners of
   NAMASMARAN comment whether these views from
    their point of view; are realistic or are infatuations
                       and/or utopia.



   NAMASMARAN THE GOLDEN CHANCE

   The life begins with separation of petty self from true
                            self.


       The geniuses, seers and prophets have almost
              complete awareness of true self.


      The others are variably aware of petty self and
true self.


     The life manifests as a result of conflicting
          awareness of a true and petty self.


                  NAMASMARAN
                           is
                           a
                 GOLDEN CHANCE
      for increasing awareness of the true self.


      This awareness is usually associated with
        increase in braveness, buoyancy and
benevolence in all the walks of life in different forms!


      The other features of this awareness are
       perspective, policies, plans and actions
                          for
     evolving awareness of true self universally .

     NAMASMARAN WHEN & WHY?
If there is a thorn inside, then it hurts badly and the child
 cries. But if you try to remove it, then it resists and cries
  more. A sick child refuses to take injection because it is
 apprehensive about the pain it produces. The list of such
 instances can be very long in fact unending. The point is
 simple. If you do not know the cause and nature of your
 problem and the efficiency of its solutions, then you tend
             to despise and reject the solutions.

 Today, most of the people are complaining of one thing
   or another. Some people are not complaining but the
  others are complaining about them! This is especially
important because “normal” people are suffering! There
is no clinical disease and yet they are suffering or at least
                         they say so!

The suffering is largely because of immature or maturing
   perception, feelings and actions. The solution is to
  development and maturation of these. This requires
  consciousness that emerges triumphantly out of the
biologically dominated perceptions, feelings and actions.
    This is actually the freedom of your soul or your
                        conscience!

  This requires NAMASMARAN in every place you go
       and in situation face. This is why you need
                   NAMASMARAN.

But it is most important to realize that NAMASMARAN
     is a supreme option open to you and is a golden
opportunity. You are privileged to know about and
              practice NAMASMARAN.

 The answer to “when” NAMASMARAN is; from the
  moment you come to know about it and always! The
   answer to “why?” is, because it is an accurate and
 radical solution to the problems, for which you seek a
                         solution!

          WHAT IS NAMASMARAN?
  Namasmaran means; remembering the name of God,
   Guru, great souls; such as prophets and holy objects
such as planets and stars. It may be remembered silently,
loudly, along with music, dance, along with breathing, in
  group or alone, either with counting by rosary (called
  SMARANI or JAPAMALA) or without counting. The
 traditions vary from region to region and from religion
                        to religion.

      However the universal principle underlying
          NAMASMARAN is to reorient your
       physiological being with your true self. In
      fact while reorienting with true self you aim
        to establish and strengthen the bond or
        connection; between; your physiological
         being; with your true self. You aim at
               reunification with yourself!

        Since remembering your true self is the
        pinnacle of or culmination of individual
consciousness, and individual consciousness
        is the culmination of every activity in life,
 remembering any name of God or Guru (any symbol of
your true self) is equivalent to opening the final common
pathway for the individual consciousness associated with
every possible activity to get funneled into or unified with
             objective or cosmic consciousness.

            Thus NAMASMARAN is in fact the
         YOGA of YOGA in the sense that it is the
       culmination of consciousness associated with
         every possible procedure and technique in
        the yoga that you are familiar with. It is the
              YOGA of YOGA because it is the
       culmination of consciousness associated with
          all the activities in the universe, which it
        encompasses as well! It is YOGA of YOGA
        because everybody in the world irrespective
         of his/her tradition and the beliefs; would
        eventually, ultimately and naturally reach it
    it; in the process of liberation. Even so called non
      believers also would not “miss” the “benefit of
                  remembering the true self
               through one symbol or another”!

   Just as NAMASMARAN is YOGA of YOGA it is
   meditation of meditation also! It is the natural and
     ultimate climax of every form of meditation.

      These facts however have to be realized with
       persistent practice of NAMSMARAN and
not blindly believed or blindly disbelieved
                 with casual approach!

       In short NAMSMARAN is super-bounty of
      cosmic consciousness for every individual to
 realize it (cosmic consciousness)! This is truly a super-
               bounty because a person who
          experiences it, rises above mercenary,
          commercial and even professional and
             charity planes and manifest super-
               transactions in his or her life!

These are just few observations to give rough idea about
                what is NAMASMARAN.
NAMASMARAN is an ocean of bliss. Its true meaning is
 beyond description in words and has to b experienced,
              most preferably, by billions!

             WHY NAMASMARAN?
Some said that poverty is due to exploitation. Some said
that the misery is due to invaders. Some said the malady
   is due to imperialists. Some said the strife is due to
religious fanaticism. Some said the stress is due to social
oppression and injustice. Some said that the stress is due
           to deprivation of biological instincts.

    These are not completely wrong, but not entirely
accurate also. Such partial understanding usually breeds
  indiscriminate hatred and violence, towards others.
On the other hand there are many theories basically
  indicating the root of the distress in individual frailty.

  These are also not completely wrong but not totally
accurate either. They usually lead to self abnegation and
        indiscriminate violence towards oneself.

    There is one simple and practical process that has
 benevolent and emancipating impact on individual and
the environment. This process is called NAMASMARAN
      i.e. remembering the God i.e. your true self.

Billions of people of the world actually are engaged in it
  without using this terminology. If billions more get
engaged in it, the blossoming of the individuals and the
             world are absolutely inevitable.

There is no proof for this; so; one need not believe in this,
 but as the idea of proof itself has its limitations one need
not disbelieve also! Unprecedented events have no proofs.
         They are realized only after they happen!

      YOGA KARMA & NAMASMARAN
   One of the enigmas of Geeta (Gita) philosophy is
  NISHKAMA KARMA, which means action without
          expectation of a particular result.

How can you perhaps do anything without expectation of
a result, when you see that everything is associated with
                         result?
Excepting perhaps involuntary actions and activities
during sleep, every action and its planning are associated
      with anticipation or projection of its result.

It is understandable that if you focus on; or get obsessed
  by a particular result or start day dreaming about it,
 then it can distract you from the procedural skills and
concentration. But how can you completely forget or get
         rid of the thought or idea of the result?

  It is also true that you should not get involved in the
result, because it can disappoint you if you don’t get the
 expected result. This is also fair and pragmatic. It can
   protect you from imminent reactive depression or
                psychiatric maniacal elation.

 But still, how can you totally dissociate the vision about
                 the result from the action?

While thinking about these questions; suddenly I realized
that even as most actions are associated with results, all
     the actions and their results i.e. cause and effect
    relationship; do not follow the same logic. This is
    especially true of subtle actions; for example, my
thinking or feelings are not describable in terms of their
physicochemical details and hence their cause and effect
 relationship/s with their results and the nature of their
                  also can not be defined!
It is true that actions are roughly and in general;
           associated with successes and failures.

     But the human civilization is evolution of actions
 (including the thoughts and feelings and the vision). As
  they evolve further; they become subtler and cosmic.
     Their nature and results; can not be qualified or
 quantified by routine gauging and assessment. Further,
  neither the actions nor the results remain personal or
   subjective and hence their “Ownership” or “Credit”
ceases completely! So we no longer remain attached to it.
              This is NISHKAMA KARMA!

Geeta (Gita) inspires us for evolution of our actions from
 crudity, tight attachment to or insistence on cause and
 effect relationships, arbitrariness and subjectivity; to;
   subtlety where subjectivity and objectivity and the
 procedure and the results conceptually merge and the
                    ownership ceases!!

One such absolutely evolved action is NAMASMARAN
 i.e. remembering God or one’s true self! Billions are
already practicing it in different religions and billions
  more are most likely to practice it and emancipate
               themselves and others!

  One can ponder over these explanations and decide
        about the option of NAMASMARAN!

     YOGA, STRESS & NAMASMARAN
YOGA is integration of right and left parietal (cerebral)
           cortex i.e. right and left brain.

   Inability to realize the unity of universe, inability to
    realize unity of different ‘pathies’ in medicine and
       inability to understand the interrelationship,
 interactivity, interdependence and complementarity in
various fields of transactions such as agriculture, science,
  technology, industry, trade, culture, politics; is due to
 deficient development and disintegration between right
                        and left brain.

   This inability leads to mismanagement of stress and
 sectarian prejudices and fanatic bigotry, prevalence of
  injustice, exploitation, hatred and crimes in different
                           forms.

    Even if a person is intelligent in terms of memory,
  analytical thinking, and innovation and so on, i.e. (left
 cerebral development) he/she can be vicious, perverted
 and antisocial if not balanced and integrated with right
                           brain.

Conversely; a person with excellent development of right
 brain but without integration with left brain is likely to
  be artist or a saintly individual but oblivious to social
                           reality.
Can NAMASMARAN be useful to integrate left and
right brain and enhance stress management and blossom
               individual and global life?

      PHYSIOLOGY & NAMASMARAN
   Meru is a golden mountain that supports the heaven,
        earth and hell. It supports the three levels of
 consciousness. It also means Tartar range of mountains
north of Himalaya. This golden mountain is analogous to
  the brain, which supports all the aspects of individual
  life. One of the meanings of the word Meru (Sanskrit)
 seems to be brain. Hence the vertebral column is called
               Meru danda (Column or Rod).

Meru-mani means a big bead, in the japamala i.e. rosary.

It is said that while reciting or remembering the name of
      God; and counting it on the japamala, i.e. while
 practicing namasmaran; you are not supposed to cross
                       the meru-mani.

           What could be the reason for this?

  According to me, the penance of any kind; including
namasmaran; is aimed at reaching the controlling center
           of the inner and outer universe.

Physiologically it is clear that there is a continuous flow
of impulses to and fro the cerebral cortex on either side.
Impulses flow from right brain to the left body and from
                left body to right brain.

 When you start counting the name of God, you tend to
 replicate the above process and go from meru-mani to
the japamala and back. This is like going from left brain
    and coming back. The next counting is begun by
  reversing the position of the meru-mani as if starting
     from right brain to the body and coming back.

  One can tally this explanation with one’s experience.

           POSITIVE THINKING AND
               NAMASMARAN

Most of the times it is said advised by most of the people
        to most of the people to think positively!

 But most of the times it is forgotten that a person does
 not think negatively by choice and does not have any
   conscious plan; of not thinking positively either!

    However most of the times this advice of positive
thinking is given and taken passively and superstitiously
               as if there is no other option!

  It has to be appreciated that a person in depression or
     frustration may have negative thoughts which are
 destructive and need to be shunned. But the strength for
this is what is utterly lacking at the point of depression or
frustration. Hence in this point of depression the positive
     thoughts are countered by equally powerful and far more
      convincing negative thoughts by that person. Sometimes
       the positive thoughts sermonized by the others become
       irritating as they appear too unrealistic and utopian to
      the person in depression and frustration; and hence can
                         be counterproductive.

      The utter weakness of depression or frustration can be
        overcome by NAMSMARAN which revitalizes and
                        rejuvenates the person.
       It is in fact the best preventive and curative measure
                  against depression and frustration.

     VALUE EDUCATION AND NAMASMARAN

        Many people related to the field of education keep
        talking about VALUE BASED EDUCATION as a
             panacea to all the problems in the world.

        The idea of value based education is probably well
        intended in case of some of the proponents, but ….

1.   The influence of value system of the society (now global
        values) (which does not come in the purview of any
      formal education) influences ideas and behavior of the
         students and every one connected with education
                          tremendously.
2.   Common men follow the celebrities in different fields, in
      the world. The celebrity status is decided by the global
value system and the media hype in accordance with it!
         Today, all of us in the world are suffering with the
     disease of “individualism, superficiality and pettiness”.
    Interestingly, it is disguised in glamour, glitter, hype and
      glorification! We have become caricature of ourselves.
       We are unable to think and behave conducive to our
                     happiness and that of others.
  3. The value system (enlightenment and inclusiveness or
         otherwise) of the constituent assemblies decide the
                  contents and drafting of the laws.
4. The laws (whether they represent the noble aspirations of
        the millions or not) and the legal system (whether it
    provides any kind of assurance, support or solace against
       being subjected to injustice and/or crimes) influences
      common man’s (and hence of every one related to the
             field of education) beliefs and interactions.
      5. Our listlessness and emaciation to rise above
         individualism, pettiness and superficiality and our
     sectarian and fragmented perspective and thinking (the
          cause of global problems) are because of getting
         disconnected from our powerhouse (our true self)!
    NAMASMARAN can reconnect us with our powerhouse.
           In other words, this is like watering our roots!
  6. In absence of NAMASMARAN, arbitrary teaching of
         some arbitrary values, become pitiable and utterly
    ineffective in serving the purpose viz. providing any kind
            of solution to global or individual problems.
7. One need not believe in this, but think over the issue and
      verify the empowering and rejuvenating experience of
           cosmic benevolence of NAMSMARAN and its
                              byproducts.
TOP PRIORITY AND NAMASMARAN
    For all those; who believe that all the human efforts
  should culminate in individual and universal blossoming,
    the holistic perspective and activities in tune with it;
                 form the only way of success!

    If you believe in realizing and manifesting the universal
           unity and harmony, then the simple way is
   NAMASMARAN. Through NAMASMARAN you begin
   to blossom and realize universal unity and harmony and
      ironically, land up in magnificent bliss and infallible
            conviction (some may call it obsession) of
                        NAMASMARAN!

    It is through such conviction, that you realize the need
   for top priority to training of children (and also adults)
    in first aid, nursing, home remedies, cooking, farming,
        gardening, stitching, carpentry and various such
     household skills and crafts, power sports, gymnastics,
   athletics, martial arts and everything related to physical
          and mental fitness, which have to be aimed at
   empowering the individuals to streamline the resources
     in problem solving; and achieve individual and global
                    prosperity and profundity.

SPIRITUALISM, MATERIAISM AND NAMASMARAN
In the district of Satara in Maharashtra state there is a
            place called Gondavle (Budruk).

   I first visited this place; where there is a samadhi
  mandir (shrine) of Sadguru Shri Brahmachaitanya
 Gondavlekar Maharaj; about thirty years ago. I have
  also visited the place called Shirdi where there is a
shrine of Shri Saibaba and Shegaon; where there is the
             shrine of Shri Gajanan Maharaj.

 These are the places where millions of devotees visit
 with reverence; every year. I respect their feelings.

However the questions that used to gnawing me were;
 “Why are these places full of activities responsible for
the downfall of mankind? Why can’t these (and other)
 spiritual masters change these (and other respective)
     places for better; through their devotees, local
administrative heads and/or the political leaders? Why
are these places immune to spiritual rejuvenation and
      or revitalization? Why do we come across the
  socioeconomic and political misery? Why do we find
   people in pitiable life conditions in most respects?”

The answer to all these questions; is the development of
   the split or chasm; between the spiritualism and
                     materialism!

The saints and their shrines provide the enlightenment
 and empowerment; but we are intoxicated by petty
 selfishness to such an extent that we visit these and
other places of pilgrimage in a parasitic mindset. We
visit these shrines and temples with beggarly mentality.
 We approach these abodes merely for trivial gains for
  our own selves or our families. All this is because we
have forgotten our DHARMA, which is different from
                  the concept of religion.

We have forgotten the concepts of pitru dharma, matru
dharma, putra dharma, acharya dharma, kula dharma,
raja dharma etc. (duties or privileges assigned to father,
 mother, son, teacher, pedigree, ruler etc. respectively
        for individual and global blossoming).

  As a result; we are being dragged by petty, narrow,
       superficial, glamorous, and individualistic
considerations born out of disrespect (for our ancestral
  traditions; wherever we belong to); and leading to;
     hollowness on the one hand; and we are being
compelled by our insecurity to visit shrines and temples
    out of helplessness and meekness on the other!

 The split between the spiritualism and materialism is
   evident today in the form of lopsided materialism
  associated with the cancerous growth of mercenary
     vested interests on the one hand and lopsided
  spiritualism associated with unjustifiably glorified
            pathetic escapism on the other!
Namasmaran is the solution, which follows the answer
                     to our questions!

    Namasmaran empowers, enlivens and enables us to get
      reoriented to and explore the dharma concept and
     reestablish the dynamic harmony and justice within
      ourselves and the society; ensuring individual and
                      global blossoming!

     In nutshell, with namasmaran; we begin to understand
          and get inspired to rectify individual and social
         conditions so as to achieve individual and global
    blossoming (including the places of worship). Further, it
    is to be noted that namasmaran lifts us up conceptually;
        above the dehumanizing and shackling concepts of
     development prevalent in socialistic and/or capitalistic
      ideologies and societies. With namasmaran we evolve
     holistic intellectual, emotional, instinctual and physical
       responses in the form of perspective, policy making,
      planning and implementation; in all the walks of life.

     Namasmaran helps us to live holistically; and neither
       lopsidedly spiritually nor lopsidedly materially!

MIND MANAGEMENT AND NAMASMARAN
The physical needs, passions, emotions; at different ages; are
           governed by physiological principles.
We need a society and laws; in which these are neither
       suppressed, nor unleashed, because both are
                    counterproductive!

 Gita, Dasbodh and such light houses guide us in developing
 such a society, in which the physiological needs are neither
  condemned nor glorified. They guide us to sublimate our
   needs smoothly into individual and global blossoming!

But as it may not be possible for every one to study these and
   interpret them, as it was in my case and many like me.

Hence I have written a book SUPERLIVING describing some
simple tips (the most important being NAMASMARAN) for
 people from every possible field; but especially children, so
that empowerment and enlightenment rejuvenate the society
   (which in turn would revitalize me and many like me)!


YOGA MANAGEMENT AND NAMASMARAN

 I think yoga has been discussed by many scholars with more
  or less common perspectives, which lead to drifting of yoga
from the mainstream life of vast majority of common persons.

 Thus; either yoga is left for the privilege of ascetics, or it is
  practiced in the form of physical exercises, posture and
                     breathing exercises.
Yoga is an art of learning to ride and manage the horse that
                             life is!

     Due to the dominating influence of barbaric forces of
 regimentalization in the past several centuries and crudely
  individualistic and/or socialistic ideologies, in the modern
   times, the Indian fabric of society was terribly damaged.

It is important and urgent to salvage the Indian and the world
     society by beginning to re-explore the wisdom from the
                           scriptures.

 But that requires a simultaneous practice of yoga, which is
the art of reorienting yourself to the concept of simultaneous
  blossoming of individual and the universe. This; in other
                     words is purification.

  There are many ways for this. But the simplest and most
   feasible way, which can revitalize and rejuvenate the
        mainstream life style, is NAMASMARAN.

    COW BEEF AND HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE

  Once; someone ridiculed the idea of consuming cow urine; as
                     a therapeutic agent.

   I had not studied Ayurveda in those days and was not sure
  whether the cow products such as ghee, curd, milk, urine and
  dung, of cow are really beneficial for health and if so in what
   way and how. So I argued that it was not fair to ridicule the
ideas without proper study and research, merely on the basis
of some unfounded prejudices and delusions. Cow and many
      other animal products can be useful medicinally.

  Having said that; it must be realized; that mere utilitarian
   view point can be counter productive. It is important to
     acquire and practice holistic perspective and holistic
  rectification of our concepts and our actions in every field,
   which is possible only through the individual and global
blossoming, through NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering your
         true self. (You can get more explanation about
          NAMASMARAN in my articles and books).

 Presently we are being governed by superficiality, pettiness,
dullness, lassitude, parasitism, ethnocentricity, individualistic
  obsessions, and many perverted elements (which we justify
   and feel proud of) at the cost of other living and nonliving
elements in the nature, hence we come across such statements.

 At that time I was not in retaliatory mood, so I did not point
  out that every person who consumes meat in one form or
  another actually consumes dead bodies of animals (can be
called some kind of necrophagia) and also consumes the urine
   and the dung of that animal (can be called some kind of
                 urophagia and coprophagia)!

Even as we uphold the principle of nonviolence we are slaves
    of our cruel obsession to keep on practicing not merely
violence per se, but viciously perverted violence in killing and
eating dead animals and glorifying and glamorizing it as if it
is the ultimate pleasure in life! The shameless hype of all this
leads to perpetuation of the perversion into the next
               generations far and wide in the world!

   I do not want to blame any one but only to appeal to find out
   if we are in inner harmony through all this or we are simply
                            delirious!

   Such introspection is possible through universally acceptable
   and practical process of NAMASMARAN! NAMASMARAN
    is like a process of oxygenation of the dying organism! We
                           urgently need it!

     More explanation about NAMASMARAN is given in my
     articles and books, uploaded for free download (like this
                             article)!

                COW OR MOTHER?
Once; someone ridiculed the idea of consuming cow urine; as a
                      therapeutic agent.

  I had not studied Ayurveda in those days and was not sure
  whether the cow products such as ghee, curd, milk, urine and
  dung, of cow are really beneficial for health and if so in what
   way and how. So I argued that it was not fair to ridicule the
  ideas without proper study and research, merely on the basis
  of some unfounded prejudices and delusions. Cow and many
        other animal products can be useful medicinally.

Having said that; it must be realized; that mere utilitarian view
   point can be counter productive. It is important to acquire
and practice holistic perspective and holistic rectification of
   our concepts and our actions in every field, which is possible
   only through the individual and global blossoming, through
   NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering your true self. (You can
   get more explanation about NAMASMARAN in my articles
                            and books).

  Presently we are being governed by superficiality, pettiness,
  dullness, lassitude, parasitism, ethnocentricity, individualistic
    obsessions, and many perverted elements (which we justify
     and feel proud of) at the cost of other living and nonliving
  elements in the nature, hence we come across such statements.

At that time I was not in retaliatory mood, so I did not point out
  that every person who consumes meat in one form or another
  actually consumes dead bodies of animals (can be called some
    kind of necrophagia) and also consumes the urine and the
    dung of that animal (can be called some kind of urophagia
                         and coprophagia)!

Even as we uphold the principle of nonviolence we are slaves of
  our cruel obsession to keep on practicing not merely violence
   per se, but viciously perverted violence in killing and eating
   dead animals and glorifying and glamorizing it as if it is the
  ultimate pleasure in life! The shameless hype of all this leads
 to perpetuation of the perversion into the next generations far
                       and wide in the world!

I do not want to blame any one but only to appeal to find out if
    we are in inner harmony through all this or we are simply
                           delirious!
Such introspection is possible through universally acceptable
  and practical process of NAMASMARAN! NAMASMARAN
   is like a process of oxygenation of the dying organism! We
                          urgently need it!

  Through such introspection what I have realized is, eating
   animals is a matter of slavery to one’s own cravings, which
    are aggravated by media hype, promotion, glamorization,
  glorification of such slavish trends; upheld by many slaves in
     the positions of leadership (political, economic, cultural,
                           scientific etc.)!

                I have begun to understand that:

    1. Considering cow as a mother is far more evolved and
                 cultured than killing and eating her.
   2. Considering rivers as mothers is far more evolved and
         cultured than simply treating them as utility of life.
 3. Treating plants as goddesses such as holy basil i.e. ocimum
    sanctum and ceremoniously worshipping them, is far more
     evolved and cultured than treating it is as a living element
                      low in the scale of evolution.
 4. This applies to the earth also. Considering earth as mother
   viz. DHARANI MATA is far more evolved and cultured than
           treating it as obvious element on which we live!
   5. In short, it is a far more advanced culture, in which the
     nature around is worshipped with festive spirit and never
                               exploited.
6. The cruelty, exploitativeness, ungratefulness are (even if they
    are glamorized, glorified, hyped and promoted as superior)
counterproductive and cast detrimental influence on others;
 thus throttling, suffocating and thwarting the blossoming
            process of individuals and universe!



  ANIMAL SACRIFICE AND NAMASMARAN
  In the process of evolution at some stage, the art, skill and
courage involved in hunting (RAJOGUNA) were vital in view
of the fact that the survival of the individuals and the societies
 depended on hunting. In the process of protecting from the
  predators, the animals were killed in as much as they were
   killed to satisfy the need of food. The fishing and hunting
  were practiced not only without any guilt, but in fact with
some kind of pride and dignity, because of their utility for the
                              society!

When the mankind began to sense the influence of unknown
 and unseen deities, he began to offer his food (sacrificial
                   animal) to the deity.

 To celebrate and cheer up; the yajnas were performed and
 bravery was invoked, admired, promoted and celebrated!
  This is probably the logical basis of the dignity that the
     sacrificial killing (RAJOGUNA) enjoyed in yajnas.

 The respect and honor for hunting and killing animals; was
   logical also because cowardice (TAMOGUNA) in those
circumstances could have meant destruction of the individual
                        and the specie.
As and when the mankind evolved further, the tradition of
 sacrificing animals in yajnas became redundant and did not
  signify bravery (RAJOGUNA) but signified basal, carnal,
animalistic and cowardly behavior (TAMOGUNA); in view of
 preferred vegetarian food being easily available; and hence
               gradually declined to almost zero.

But I was once told that the practice of sacrificing animals as
             offering to their deity still goes on!

   Irrespective of the region or religion; this is not bravery
 (RAJOGUNA) but cold blooded risk free cowardly cruelty;
      worst than mere cowardice and hence worst than
                         TAMOGUNA.

   In my view this is a perverted and brutal (and not brave)
 hangover of the redundant traditions and customs belonging
to the primitive stage of the development of the society, which
  belonged to RAJOGUNA and were much required in those
  times. But those traditions are rendered retrogressive and
      detrimental (TAMOGUNA) in the present context!

Once my friend asked, why don’t majority of the people offer
                  animals to the deities?

  I did not have instant and satisfactory answer at that time
 and thought that probably it could be blind following of the
  egalitarian or god fearing tradition of offering vegetarian
                        food to deities.
But later I came to realize that unnecessary killing belongs; as
            alluded to earlier; to worst form of TAMAS OR
     TAMOGUNA (fanaticism) and those who evolve in the course
       of evolution; rise from TAMOGUNA and RAJOGUNA to
       SATVA GUNA and choose not to opt for brutal, cruel and
     absolutely unnecessary killing of cows, bullocks, sheep, goats
      and other animals or birds for any purpose; eating, offering
                            or any other luxury!

          Through probably the practice of NAMASMARAN, I
        realized that as the mankind evolves, the SATVA GUNA
     becomes preponderant and hence he gradually does not need
       to perversely assert his bravery by killing; especially when
     absolutely not required for protection or feeding. A SATIVK
      individual irrespective of his or her region or religion; does
        not fancy killing harmless and in fact loving and serving
     animals; ungratefully; for so called offering and/or eating but
       prefers vegetarian food, for all offerings and celebrations.

                            IS
                      NAMASMARAN
                         USELESS
                            IN
                   STRESS MANAGEMENT?

    When I used to be charged with physical needs, passions,
   emotions, thoughts and ideas, I used to feel agitated with the
 thought of similar plight of the people! The social circumstances
appeared extremely dark and annoying. The change, the revolution
appeared to be the only purpose of life, even as the exact program
 of action and/or blue print of the revolution was far from ready!

 The frenzy of all these complex feelings used to be so much, that
   any proponent of God or NAMASMARAN used to appear as
   unconcerned about peoples’ true needs, unbothered about real
 issues such as poverty, injustice; and hence antisocial, hypocrite,
             parasitic etc or at best; stupid or gullible!

 The restlessness within; used to be so much that it used to propel
 me towards addressing every problem that appeared in the news
    paper or on TV, apart from those in my own personal life.

   As a result, I used get engrossed in relevant physical work,
 emotional expression in poetry, intellectual analysis, discussions,
public speeches, writing articles and books etc, which appeared to
  be the methods of self assertion and solution to the problems!
 Withdrawal from such activities was suffocating, unbearable and
                               killing!

  Namasmaran appeared to me a despicable escapism from such
“very useful and urgent” activities. As regards it social importance,
   it appeared to make the people facing problems; parasitic and
 paranoid! It appeared to make people dependent and helpless. It
appeared to dissuade them from accepting the challenges of life in
        personal and social life and facing them victoriously!
The fervor of my mind would never get calmed by the thought of
NAMASMARAN, though many a times I appreciated the honesty
        and selflessness of the individuals advocating it.

Later in the course of reading about various arguments regarding
    NAMASMARAN in books such as the biography of Shri
 Brahmachaitanya Gondavlekar Maharaj, by Prof. K.V. Belsare;
and through my experiences with a variety of activities of service
    and social struggle for justice; I began to get intellectually
 convinced that NAMASMARAN can evolve and transform an
  individual in terms of his/her perspective, vision, intellectual
   framework, emotions and instincts; and evolve him/her into
 objective or cosmic consciousness. I thought this; if happens in
 every walk of life; then it could usher in; individual and global
   blossoming, because; it could actualize globally benevolent
                     perspective and policies!

          I wrote many books on NAMASMARAN and
  VISHNUSAHASRANAM; in Hindi, Marathi and English and
besides getting them published, tried to sell or even distribute them
free of cost and spread the message of NAMASMARAN with my
     perspective mentioned above, as far and wide as I could!

But at this juncture I would like to address some arguments against
                         NAMASMARAN!

  1. What is the basis to prove that NAMASMARAN can lead to
    global blossoming? NAMASMARAN does not seem to do
anything, if compared to for instance; scientific research or socio-
  political manipulations! It does not seem to work and produce
 results; even comparable to those produced by relatively simple
             agricultural activities or other handicrafts!

  2. If I say that NAMASMARAN evolves us into objective or
   cosmic consciousness or imparts global perspective, then the
 argument is, “Can you prove the cause and effect relationship?”

       The answer obviously is “No”! I can not prove that
      NAMASMARAN evolves us into objective or cosmic
         consciousness or imparts global perspective!

    Looking back; I realize that my opinions changed due to the
  influence of factors beyond my comprehension constituting the
    “field”, cosmic consciousness or God that encompasses and
influences not merely “me” but everything; including the people in
 the universe! Whether the people in the world would also change
  and begin to get associated with NAMASMARAN; would also
 therefore be determined by the same “field” and hence I need not
                 feel restless about “this mission”!

        3. What is the proof for existence of such a field?

                   Obviously; I have no proof!

  4. Another argument is; NAMASMARAN has no influence on
individual or social life; practicing NAMASMARAN is wastage of
time! One may feel that NAMASMARAN has benevolent role,
because of erroneously attributing the good changes in him or her
 to NAMASMARAN! Actually it could be the other way round;
    that is good changes in him or her have lead to interest in
                       NAMASMARAN!

 This argument also, can not be refuted. What can be said is that
cosmic consciusness or objective bliss is somehow associated with
                       NAMASMARAN.

 5. But even this can not be proved. Neither can I show that some
one is linked (through NAMASMARAN) to cosmic consciousness,
       nor can I can I prove that those; who are not practicing
 NAMASMARAN; are dissociated from cosmic consciusness or
                           objective bliss!

   All in all, practice of NAMASMARAN and the experience
 associated with it are essentially personal and beyond linguistic
                           communication.
    One may or may not believe in them; and may or may not
   provisionally accept, study, experiment out and decide their
                        validity or otherwise!

 It appears however, that soon; the individuals and the societies of
    world; would get freedom from the conflicts generated from
fulfillment or otherwise; of their physical needs, instincts, feelings,
 arguments, flights of imaginations, infatuations and restlessness,
 and get the privilege of being associated with NAMASMARAN,
objective bliss, cosmic consciousness, globally beneficial
 perspective and policies and their implementation; irrespective of
the nature of cause and effect relationship (which also incidentally;
          is a product of human intellectual framework!)!

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Namasmaran And Stress Dr. Shriniwas J. Kashalikar

  • 1. NAMASMARAN AND STRESS DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
  • 2. NAMASMARAN & NEUROSIS Indulgence and asceticism, atheism and theism, romance and renunciation; and such variety of apparently conflicting phenomena render completion to life. If you try to take away anyone of these, the life appears incomplete. In fact even as I was convinced intellectually about the value of NAMSMARAN in life and wrote books on it right from 1992, one of the major hurdles in appreciating and experiencing the cosmic benevolence of NAMASMARAN was its depiction (or my erroneous perception of the depiction) as an activity of elderly, neurotic, inactive, pessimists, escapists and failed individuals. Even the books, movies, and dramas on saints and bhakti sangeet (devotional music) made saintly life and the practice of NAMASMARAN appear miserable and pathetic. I never thought this was the A grade happiness, implied in spiritualism or self realization. Partly because of this and partly because of the social justice and freedom implied in the atheism, which I cherish even today, I could not be involved completely in any particular theist tradition of NAMASMARAN. But even as I, due to my repulsion for the pathetic life style (as depicted or interpreted by me) felt material pleasures could not be amputated arbitrarily from one’s
  • 3. life if one were to evolve healthily, I was not at ease even in the “best” of petty pleasures, which could at best give B grade pleasure, not A grade happiness, which is implied in (though often ignored) and must be integral part of global justice. Thus neither could I identify myself with the ascetics nor with the materialists. I kept on vacillating from one side to another like a pendulum. But now it is more than clear, that NAMASMARAN is a panacea, it is an objective phenomenon and it can not be the monopoly of any one camp such as ascetic, indulgent, theist, atheist, scientific, religious and so on. It is an objective phenomenon with cosmic benevolence for blossoming of one and all. It is as objective and as vital for human blossoming, as the oxygen is for human life. It is beyond science, religion and philosophy. It is beyond human thought. It is a matter of practice and experience, not belief, feeling or imagination. NAMASMARAN connects you to the center of life, time and cosmic consciousness, i.e. with your true self. NAMASMARAN (according to one’s tradition) is the privileged express highway to realize maximum potentials in every possible way, for one and all!
  • 4. NAMASMARAN, A MAHAYOG, A MEGAFUSION, EK MAHASAMANVAY I feel that  NAMASMARAN means remembering the name of God, i.e. one’s innate and true self and thus helps to blossom from petty self into cosmic self in the course of time!  Namasmaran links all the faculties in an individual and helps him evolve integrity between thoughts, feelings, instincts and actions.  Namasmaran cements the generation gap with consideration and love.  Namasmaran helps to rise above petty whims and fancies and enjoy sublime bonds of love amongst family members, relatives and friends.  Namasmaran wields the bonds of understanding amongst people of different professions and of different strata.  Namasmaran builds lasting bonds amongst people of different regions.  Namasmaran builds the bridges of acceptance and love amongst different religions.
  • 5.  Namasmaran helps in uniting different races.  Namasmaran helps in nurturing love between people of different nationalities.  Namasmaran brings the actual spiritualism in day today life in every walk of life i.e. actually catalyzes the reunification of spiritualism and materialism.  Namasmaran therefore is MAHAYOG, MEGAFUSION OR MAHASAMANVAY  I would be obliged if the practitioners of NAMASMARAN comment whether these views from their point of view; are realistic or are infatuations and/or utopia. NAMASMARAN THE GOLDEN CHANCE The life begins with separation of petty self from true self. The geniuses, seers and prophets have almost complete awareness of true self. The others are variably aware of petty self and
  • 6. true self. The life manifests as a result of conflicting awareness of a true and petty self. NAMASMARAN is a GOLDEN CHANCE for increasing awareness of the true self. This awareness is usually associated with increase in braveness, buoyancy and benevolence in all the walks of life in different forms! The other features of this awareness are perspective, policies, plans and actions for evolving awareness of true self universally . NAMASMARAN WHEN & WHY?
  • 7. If there is a thorn inside, then it hurts badly and the child cries. But if you try to remove it, then it resists and cries more. A sick child refuses to take injection because it is apprehensive about the pain it produces. The list of such instances can be very long in fact unending. The point is simple. If you do not know the cause and nature of your problem and the efficiency of its solutions, then you tend to despise and reject the solutions. Today, most of the people are complaining of one thing or another. Some people are not complaining but the others are complaining about them! This is especially important because “normal” people are suffering! There is no clinical disease and yet they are suffering or at least they say so! The suffering is largely because of immature or maturing perception, feelings and actions. The solution is to development and maturation of these. This requires consciousness that emerges triumphantly out of the biologically dominated perceptions, feelings and actions. This is actually the freedom of your soul or your conscience! This requires NAMASMARAN in every place you go and in situation face. This is why you need NAMASMARAN. But it is most important to realize that NAMASMARAN is a supreme option open to you and is a golden
  • 8. opportunity. You are privileged to know about and practice NAMASMARAN. The answer to “when” NAMASMARAN is; from the moment you come to know about it and always! The answer to “why?” is, because it is an accurate and radical solution to the problems, for which you seek a solution! WHAT IS NAMASMARAN? Namasmaran means; remembering the name of God, Guru, great souls; such as prophets and holy objects such as planets and stars. It may be remembered silently, loudly, along with music, dance, along with breathing, in group or alone, either with counting by rosary (called SMARANI or JAPAMALA) or without counting. The traditions vary from region to region and from religion to religion. However the universal principle underlying NAMASMARAN is to reorient your physiological being with your true self. In fact while reorienting with true self you aim to establish and strengthen the bond or connection; between; your physiological being; with your true self. You aim at reunification with yourself! Since remembering your true self is the pinnacle of or culmination of individual
  • 9. consciousness, and individual consciousness is the culmination of every activity in life, remembering any name of God or Guru (any symbol of your true self) is equivalent to opening the final common pathway for the individual consciousness associated with every possible activity to get funneled into or unified with objective or cosmic consciousness. Thus NAMASMARAN is in fact the YOGA of YOGA in the sense that it is the culmination of consciousness associated with every possible procedure and technique in the yoga that you are familiar with. It is the YOGA of YOGA because it is the culmination of consciousness associated with all the activities in the universe, which it encompasses as well! It is YOGA of YOGA because everybody in the world irrespective of his/her tradition and the beliefs; would eventually, ultimately and naturally reach it it; in the process of liberation. Even so called non believers also would not “miss” the “benefit of remembering the true self through one symbol or another”! Just as NAMASMARAN is YOGA of YOGA it is meditation of meditation also! It is the natural and ultimate climax of every form of meditation. These facts however have to be realized with persistent practice of NAMSMARAN and
  • 10. not blindly believed or blindly disbelieved with casual approach! In short NAMSMARAN is super-bounty of cosmic consciousness for every individual to realize it (cosmic consciousness)! This is truly a super- bounty because a person who experiences it, rises above mercenary, commercial and even professional and charity planes and manifest super- transactions in his or her life! These are just few observations to give rough idea about what is NAMASMARAN. NAMASMARAN is an ocean of bliss. Its true meaning is beyond description in words and has to b experienced, most preferably, by billions! WHY NAMASMARAN? Some said that poverty is due to exploitation. Some said that the misery is due to invaders. Some said the malady is due to imperialists. Some said the strife is due to religious fanaticism. Some said the stress is due to social oppression and injustice. Some said that the stress is due to deprivation of biological instincts. These are not completely wrong, but not entirely accurate also. Such partial understanding usually breeds indiscriminate hatred and violence, towards others.
  • 11. On the other hand there are many theories basically indicating the root of the distress in individual frailty. These are also not completely wrong but not totally accurate either. They usually lead to self abnegation and indiscriminate violence towards oneself. There is one simple and practical process that has benevolent and emancipating impact on individual and the environment. This process is called NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering the God i.e. your true self. Billions of people of the world actually are engaged in it without using this terminology. If billions more get engaged in it, the blossoming of the individuals and the world are absolutely inevitable. There is no proof for this; so; one need not believe in this, but as the idea of proof itself has its limitations one need not disbelieve also! Unprecedented events have no proofs. They are realized only after they happen! YOGA KARMA & NAMASMARAN One of the enigmas of Geeta (Gita) philosophy is NISHKAMA KARMA, which means action without expectation of a particular result. How can you perhaps do anything without expectation of a result, when you see that everything is associated with result?
  • 12. Excepting perhaps involuntary actions and activities during sleep, every action and its planning are associated with anticipation or projection of its result. It is understandable that if you focus on; or get obsessed by a particular result or start day dreaming about it, then it can distract you from the procedural skills and concentration. But how can you completely forget or get rid of the thought or idea of the result? It is also true that you should not get involved in the result, because it can disappoint you if you don’t get the expected result. This is also fair and pragmatic. It can protect you from imminent reactive depression or psychiatric maniacal elation. But still, how can you totally dissociate the vision about the result from the action? While thinking about these questions; suddenly I realized that even as most actions are associated with results, all the actions and their results i.e. cause and effect relationship; do not follow the same logic. This is especially true of subtle actions; for example, my thinking or feelings are not describable in terms of their physicochemical details and hence their cause and effect relationship/s with their results and the nature of their also can not be defined!
  • 13. It is true that actions are roughly and in general; associated with successes and failures. But the human civilization is evolution of actions (including the thoughts and feelings and the vision). As they evolve further; they become subtler and cosmic. Their nature and results; can not be qualified or quantified by routine gauging and assessment. Further, neither the actions nor the results remain personal or subjective and hence their “Ownership” or “Credit” ceases completely! So we no longer remain attached to it. This is NISHKAMA KARMA! Geeta (Gita) inspires us for evolution of our actions from crudity, tight attachment to or insistence on cause and effect relationships, arbitrariness and subjectivity; to; subtlety where subjectivity and objectivity and the procedure and the results conceptually merge and the ownership ceases!! One such absolutely evolved action is NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering God or one’s true self! Billions are already practicing it in different religions and billions more are most likely to practice it and emancipate themselves and others! One can ponder over these explanations and decide about the option of NAMASMARAN! YOGA, STRESS & NAMASMARAN
  • 14. YOGA is integration of right and left parietal (cerebral) cortex i.e. right and left brain. Inability to realize the unity of universe, inability to realize unity of different ‘pathies’ in medicine and inability to understand the interrelationship, interactivity, interdependence and complementarity in various fields of transactions such as agriculture, science, technology, industry, trade, culture, politics; is due to deficient development and disintegration between right and left brain. This inability leads to mismanagement of stress and sectarian prejudices and fanatic bigotry, prevalence of injustice, exploitation, hatred and crimes in different forms. Even if a person is intelligent in terms of memory, analytical thinking, and innovation and so on, i.e. (left cerebral development) he/she can be vicious, perverted and antisocial if not balanced and integrated with right brain. Conversely; a person with excellent development of right brain but without integration with left brain is likely to be artist or a saintly individual but oblivious to social reality.
  • 15. Can NAMASMARAN be useful to integrate left and right brain and enhance stress management and blossom individual and global life? PHYSIOLOGY & NAMASMARAN Meru is a golden mountain that supports the heaven, earth and hell. It supports the three levels of consciousness. It also means Tartar range of mountains north of Himalaya. This golden mountain is analogous to the brain, which supports all the aspects of individual life. One of the meanings of the word Meru (Sanskrit) seems to be brain. Hence the vertebral column is called Meru danda (Column or Rod). Meru-mani means a big bead, in the japamala i.e. rosary. It is said that while reciting or remembering the name of God; and counting it on the japamala, i.e. while practicing namasmaran; you are not supposed to cross the meru-mani. What could be the reason for this? According to me, the penance of any kind; including namasmaran; is aimed at reaching the controlling center of the inner and outer universe. Physiologically it is clear that there is a continuous flow of impulses to and fro the cerebral cortex on either side.
  • 16. Impulses flow from right brain to the left body and from left body to right brain. When you start counting the name of God, you tend to replicate the above process and go from meru-mani to the japamala and back. This is like going from left brain and coming back. The next counting is begun by reversing the position of the meru-mani as if starting from right brain to the body and coming back. One can tally this explanation with one’s experience. POSITIVE THINKING AND NAMASMARAN Most of the times it is said advised by most of the people to most of the people to think positively! But most of the times it is forgotten that a person does not think negatively by choice and does not have any conscious plan; of not thinking positively either! However most of the times this advice of positive thinking is given and taken passively and superstitiously as if there is no other option! It has to be appreciated that a person in depression or frustration may have negative thoughts which are destructive and need to be shunned. But the strength for this is what is utterly lacking at the point of depression or
  • 17. frustration. Hence in this point of depression the positive thoughts are countered by equally powerful and far more convincing negative thoughts by that person. Sometimes the positive thoughts sermonized by the others become irritating as they appear too unrealistic and utopian to the person in depression and frustration; and hence can be counterproductive. The utter weakness of depression or frustration can be overcome by NAMSMARAN which revitalizes and rejuvenates the person. It is in fact the best preventive and curative measure against depression and frustration. VALUE EDUCATION AND NAMASMARAN Many people related to the field of education keep talking about VALUE BASED EDUCATION as a panacea to all the problems in the world. The idea of value based education is probably well intended in case of some of the proponents, but …. 1. The influence of value system of the society (now global values) (which does not come in the purview of any formal education) influences ideas and behavior of the students and every one connected with education tremendously. 2. Common men follow the celebrities in different fields, in the world. The celebrity status is decided by the global
  • 18. value system and the media hype in accordance with it! Today, all of us in the world are suffering with the disease of “individualism, superficiality and pettiness”. Interestingly, it is disguised in glamour, glitter, hype and glorification! We have become caricature of ourselves. We are unable to think and behave conducive to our happiness and that of others. 3. The value system (enlightenment and inclusiveness or otherwise) of the constituent assemblies decide the contents and drafting of the laws. 4. The laws (whether they represent the noble aspirations of the millions or not) and the legal system (whether it provides any kind of assurance, support or solace against being subjected to injustice and/or crimes) influences common man’s (and hence of every one related to the field of education) beliefs and interactions. 5. Our listlessness and emaciation to rise above individualism, pettiness and superficiality and our sectarian and fragmented perspective and thinking (the cause of global problems) are because of getting disconnected from our powerhouse (our true self)! NAMASMARAN can reconnect us with our powerhouse. In other words, this is like watering our roots! 6. In absence of NAMASMARAN, arbitrary teaching of some arbitrary values, become pitiable and utterly ineffective in serving the purpose viz. providing any kind of solution to global or individual problems. 7. One need not believe in this, but think over the issue and verify the empowering and rejuvenating experience of cosmic benevolence of NAMSMARAN and its byproducts.
  • 19. TOP PRIORITY AND NAMASMARAN For all those; who believe that all the human efforts should culminate in individual and universal blossoming, the holistic perspective and activities in tune with it; form the only way of success! If you believe in realizing and manifesting the universal unity and harmony, then the simple way is NAMASMARAN. Through NAMASMARAN you begin to blossom and realize universal unity and harmony and ironically, land up in magnificent bliss and infallible conviction (some may call it obsession) of NAMASMARAN! It is through such conviction, that you realize the need for top priority to training of children (and also adults) in first aid, nursing, home remedies, cooking, farming, gardening, stitching, carpentry and various such household skills and crafts, power sports, gymnastics, athletics, martial arts and everything related to physical and mental fitness, which have to be aimed at empowering the individuals to streamline the resources in problem solving; and achieve individual and global prosperity and profundity. SPIRITUALISM, MATERIAISM AND NAMASMARAN
  • 20. In the district of Satara in Maharashtra state there is a place called Gondavle (Budruk). I first visited this place; where there is a samadhi mandir (shrine) of Sadguru Shri Brahmachaitanya Gondavlekar Maharaj; about thirty years ago. I have also visited the place called Shirdi where there is a shrine of Shri Saibaba and Shegaon; where there is the shrine of Shri Gajanan Maharaj. These are the places where millions of devotees visit with reverence; every year. I respect their feelings. However the questions that used to gnawing me were; “Why are these places full of activities responsible for the downfall of mankind? Why can’t these (and other) spiritual masters change these (and other respective) places for better; through their devotees, local administrative heads and/or the political leaders? Why are these places immune to spiritual rejuvenation and or revitalization? Why do we come across the socioeconomic and political misery? Why do we find people in pitiable life conditions in most respects?” The answer to all these questions; is the development of the split or chasm; between the spiritualism and materialism! The saints and their shrines provide the enlightenment and empowerment; but we are intoxicated by petty selfishness to such an extent that we visit these and
  • 21. other places of pilgrimage in a parasitic mindset. We visit these shrines and temples with beggarly mentality. We approach these abodes merely for trivial gains for our own selves or our families. All this is because we have forgotten our DHARMA, which is different from the concept of religion. We have forgotten the concepts of pitru dharma, matru dharma, putra dharma, acharya dharma, kula dharma, raja dharma etc. (duties or privileges assigned to father, mother, son, teacher, pedigree, ruler etc. respectively for individual and global blossoming). As a result; we are being dragged by petty, narrow, superficial, glamorous, and individualistic considerations born out of disrespect (for our ancestral traditions; wherever we belong to); and leading to; hollowness on the one hand; and we are being compelled by our insecurity to visit shrines and temples out of helplessness and meekness on the other! The split between the spiritualism and materialism is evident today in the form of lopsided materialism associated with the cancerous growth of mercenary vested interests on the one hand and lopsided spiritualism associated with unjustifiably glorified pathetic escapism on the other!
  • 22. Namasmaran is the solution, which follows the answer to our questions! Namasmaran empowers, enlivens and enables us to get reoriented to and explore the dharma concept and reestablish the dynamic harmony and justice within ourselves and the society; ensuring individual and global blossoming! In nutshell, with namasmaran; we begin to understand and get inspired to rectify individual and social conditions so as to achieve individual and global blossoming (including the places of worship). Further, it is to be noted that namasmaran lifts us up conceptually; above the dehumanizing and shackling concepts of development prevalent in socialistic and/or capitalistic ideologies and societies. With namasmaran we evolve holistic intellectual, emotional, instinctual and physical responses in the form of perspective, policy making, planning and implementation; in all the walks of life. Namasmaran helps us to live holistically; and neither lopsidedly spiritually nor lopsidedly materially! MIND MANAGEMENT AND NAMASMARAN The physical needs, passions, emotions; at different ages; are governed by physiological principles.
  • 23. We need a society and laws; in which these are neither suppressed, nor unleashed, because both are counterproductive! Gita, Dasbodh and such light houses guide us in developing such a society, in which the physiological needs are neither condemned nor glorified. They guide us to sublimate our needs smoothly into individual and global blossoming! But as it may not be possible for every one to study these and interpret them, as it was in my case and many like me. Hence I have written a book SUPERLIVING describing some simple tips (the most important being NAMASMARAN) for people from every possible field; but especially children, so that empowerment and enlightenment rejuvenate the society (which in turn would revitalize me and many like me)! YOGA MANAGEMENT AND NAMASMARAN I think yoga has been discussed by many scholars with more or less common perspectives, which lead to drifting of yoga from the mainstream life of vast majority of common persons. Thus; either yoga is left for the privilege of ascetics, or it is practiced in the form of physical exercises, posture and breathing exercises.
  • 24. Yoga is an art of learning to ride and manage the horse that life is! Due to the dominating influence of barbaric forces of regimentalization in the past several centuries and crudely individualistic and/or socialistic ideologies, in the modern times, the Indian fabric of society was terribly damaged. It is important and urgent to salvage the Indian and the world society by beginning to re-explore the wisdom from the scriptures. But that requires a simultaneous practice of yoga, which is the art of reorienting yourself to the concept of simultaneous blossoming of individual and the universe. This; in other words is purification. There are many ways for this. But the simplest and most feasible way, which can revitalize and rejuvenate the mainstream life style, is NAMASMARAN. COW BEEF AND HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE Once; someone ridiculed the idea of consuming cow urine; as a therapeutic agent. I had not studied Ayurveda in those days and was not sure whether the cow products such as ghee, curd, milk, urine and dung, of cow are really beneficial for health and if so in what way and how. So I argued that it was not fair to ridicule the
  • 25. ideas without proper study and research, merely on the basis of some unfounded prejudices and delusions. Cow and many other animal products can be useful medicinally. Having said that; it must be realized; that mere utilitarian view point can be counter productive. It is important to acquire and practice holistic perspective and holistic rectification of our concepts and our actions in every field, which is possible only through the individual and global blossoming, through NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering your true self. (You can get more explanation about NAMASMARAN in my articles and books). Presently we are being governed by superficiality, pettiness, dullness, lassitude, parasitism, ethnocentricity, individualistic obsessions, and many perverted elements (which we justify and feel proud of) at the cost of other living and nonliving elements in the nature, hence we come across such statements. At that time I was not in retaliatory mood, so I did not point out that every person who consumes meat in one form or another actually consumes dead bodies of animals (can be called some kind of necrophagia) and also consumes the urine and the dung of that animal (can be called some kind of urophagia and coprophagia)! Even as we uphold the principle of nonviolence we are slaves of our cruel obsession to keep on practicing not merely violence per se, but viciously perverted violence in killing and eating dead animals and glorifying and glamorizing it as if it is the ultimate pleasure in life! The shameless hype of all this
  • 26. leads to perpetuation of the perversion into the next generations far and wide in the world! I do not want to blame any one but only to appeal to find out if we are in inner harmony through all this or we are simply delirious! Such introspection is possible through universally acceptable and practical process of NAMASMARAN! NAMASMARAN is like a process of oxygenation of the dying organism! We urgently need it! More explanation about NAMASMARAN is given in my articles and books, uploaded for free download (like this article)! COW OR MOTHER? Once; someone ridiculed the idea of consuming cow urine; as a therapeutic agent. I had not studied Ayurveda in those days and was not sure whether the cow products such as ghee, curd, milk, urine and dung, of cow are really beneficial for health and if so in what way and how. So I argued that it was not fair to ridicule the ideas without proper study and research, merely on the basis of some unfounded prejudices and delusions. Cow and many other animal products can be useful medicinally. Having said that; it must be realized; that mere utilitarian view point can be counter productive. It is important to acquire
  • 27. and practice holistic perspective and holistic rectification of our concepts and our actions in every field, which is possible only through the individual and global blossoming, through NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering your true self. (You can get more explanation about NAMASMARAN in my articles and books). Presently we are being governed by superficiality, pettiness, dullness, lassitude, parasitism, ethnocentricity, individualistic obsessions, and many perverted elements (which we justify and feel proud of) at the cost of other living and nonliving elements in the nature, hence we come across such statements. At that time I was not in retaliatory mood, so I did not point out that every person who consumes meat in one form or another actually consumes dead bodies of animals (can be called some kind of necrophagia) and also consumes the urine and the dung of that animal (can be called some kind of urophagia and coprophagia)! Even as we uphold the principle of nonviolence we are slaves of our cruel obsession to keep on practicing not merely violence per se, but viciously perverted violence in killing and eating dead animals and glorifying and glamorizing it as if it is the ultimate pleasure in life! The shameless hype of all this leads to perpetuation of the perversion into the next generations far and wide in the world! I do not want to blame any one but only to appeal to find out if we are in inner harmony through all this or we are simply delirious!
  • 28. Such introspection is possible through universally acceptable and practical process of NAMASMARAN! NAMASMARAN is like a process of oxygenation of the dying organism! We urgently need it! Through such introspection what I have realized is, eating animals is a matter of slavery to one’s own cravings, which are aggravated by media hype, promotion, glamorization, glorification of such slavish trends; upheld by many slaves in the positions of leadership (political, economic, cultural, scientific etc.)! I have begun to understand that: 1. Considering cow as a mother is far more evolved and cultured than killing and eating her. 2. Considering rivers as mothers is far more evolved and cultured than simply treating them as utility of life. 3. Treating plants as goddesses such as holy basil i.e. ocimum sanctum and ceremoniously worshipping them, is far more evolved and cultured than treating it is as a living element low in the scale of evolution. 4. This applies to the earth also. Considering earth as mother viz. DHARANI MATA is far more evolved and cultured than treating it as obvious element on which we live! 5. In short, it is a far more advanced culture, in which the nature around is worshipped with festive spirit and never exploited. 6. The cruelty, exploitativeness, ungratefulness are (even if they are glamorized, glorified, hyped and promoted as superior)
  • 29. counterproductive and cast detrimental influence on others; thus throttling, suffocating and thwarting the blossoming process of individuals and universe! ANIMAL SACRIFICE AND NAMASMARAN In the process of evolution at some stage, the art, skill and courage involved in hunting (RAJOGUNA) were vital in view of the fact that the survival of the individuals and the societies depended on hunting. In the process of protecting from the predators, the animals were killed in as much as they were killed to satisfy the need of food. The fishing and hunting were practiced not only without any guilt, but in fact with some kind of pride and dignity, because of their utility for the society! When the mankind began to sense the influence of unknown and unseen deities, he began to offer his food (sacrificial animal) to the deity. To celebrate and cheer up; the yajnas were performed and bravery was invoked, admired, promoted and celebrated! This is probably the logical basis of the dignity that the sacrificial killing (RAJOGUNA) enjoyed in yajnas. The respect and honor for hunting and killing animals; was logical also because cowardice (TAMOGUNA) in those circumstances could have meant destruction of the individual and the specie.
  • 30. As and when the mankind evolved further, the tradition of sacrificing animals in yajnas became redundant and did not signify bravery (RAJOGUNA) but signified basal, carnal, animalistic and cowardly behavior (TAMOGUNA); in view of preferred vegetarian food being easily available; and hence gradually declined to almost zero. But I was once told that the practice of sacrificing animals as offering to their deity still goes on! Irrespective of the region or religion; this is not bravery (RAJOGUNA) but cold blooded risk free cowardly cruelty; worst than mere cowardice and hence worst than TAMOGUNA. In my view this is a perverted and brutal (and not brave) hangover of the redundant traditions and customs belonging to the primitive stage of the development of the society, which belonged to RAJOGUNA and were much required in those times. But those traditions are rendered retrogressive and detrimental (TAMOGUNA) in the present context! Once my friend asked, why don’t majority of the people offer animals to the deities? I did not have instant and satisfactory answer at that time and thought that probably it could be blind following of the egalitarian or god fearing tradition of offering vegetarian food to deities.
  • 31. But later I came to realize that unnecessary killing belongs; as alluded to earlier; to worst form of TAMAS OR TAMOGUNA (fanaticism) and those who evolve in the course of evolution; rise from TAMOGUNA and RAJOGUNA to SATVA GUNA and choose not to opt for brutal, cruel and absolutely unnecessary killing of cows, bullocks, sheep, goats and other animals or birds for any purpose; eating, offering or any other luxury! Through probably the practice of NAMASMARAN, I realized that as the mankind evolves, the SATVA GUNA becomes preponderant and hence he gradually does not need to perversely assert his bravery by killing; especially when absolutely not required for protection or feeding. A SATIVK individual irrespective of his or her region or religion; does not fancy killing harmless and in fact loving and serving animals; ungratefully; for so called offering and/or eating but prefers vegetarian food, for all offerings and celebrations. IS NAMASMARAN USELESS IN STRESS MANAGEMENT? When I used to be charged with physical needs, passions, emotions, thoughts and ideas, I used to feel agitated with the thought of similar plight of the people! The social circumstances appeared extremely dark and annoying. The change, the revolution
  • 32. appeared to be the only purpose of life, even as the exact program of action and/or blue print of the revolution was far from ready! The frenzy of all these complex feelings used to be so much, that any proponent of God or NAMASMARAN used to appear as unconcerned about peoples’ true needs, unbothered about real issues such as poverty, injustice; and hence antisocial, hypocrite, parasitic etc or at best; stupid or gullible! The restlessness within; used to be so much that it used to propel me towards addressing every problem that appeared in the news paper or on TV, apart from those in my own personal life. As a result, I used get engrossed in relevant physical work, emotional expression in poetry, intellectual analysis, discussions, public speeches, writing articles and books etc, which appeared to be the methods of self assertion and solution to the problems! Withdrawal from such activities was suffocating, unbearable and killing! Namasmaran appeared to me a despicable escapism from such “very useful and urgent” activities. As regards it social importance, it appeared to make the people facing problems; parasitic and paranoid! It appeared to make people dependent and helpless. It appeared to dissuade them from accepting the challenges of life in personal and social life and facing them victoriously!
  • 33. The fervor of my mind would never get calmed by the thought of NAMASMARAN, though many a times I appreciated the honesty and selflessness of the individuals advocating it. Later in the course of reading about various arguments regarding NAMASMARAN in books such as the biography of Shri Brahmachaitanya Gondavlekar Maharaj, by Prof. K.V. Belsare; and through my experiences with a variety of activities of service and social struggle for justice; I began to get intellectually convinced that NAMASMARAN can evolve and transform an individual in terms of his/her perspective, vision, intellectual framework, emotions and instincts; and evolve him/her into objective or cosmic consciousness. I thought this; if happens in every walk of life; then it could usher in; individual and global blossoming, because; it could actualize globally benevolent perspective and policies! I wrote many books on NAMASMARAN and VISHNUSAHASRANAM; in Hindi, Marathi and English and besides getting them published, tried to sell or even distribute them free of cost and spread the message of NAMASMARAN with my perspective mentioned above, as far and wide as I could! But at this juncture I would like to address some arguments against NAMASMARAN! 1. What is the basis to prove that NAMASMARAN can lead to global blossoming? NAMASMARAN does not seem to do
  • 34. anything, if compared to for instance; scientific research or socio- political manipulations! It does not seem to work and produce results; even comparable to those produced by relatively simple agricultural activities or other handicrafts! 2. If I say that NAMASMARAN evolves us into objective or cosmic consciousness or imparts global perspective, then the argument is, “Can you prove the cause and effect relationship?” The answer obviously is “No”! I can not prove that NAMASMARAN evolves us into objective or cosmic consciousness or imparts global perspective! Looking back; I realize that my opinions changed due to the influence of factors beyond my comprehension constituting the “field”, cosmic consciousness or God that encompasses and influences not merely “me” but everything; including the people in the universe! Whether the people in the world would also change and begin to get associated with NAMASMARAN; would also therefore be determined by the same “field” and hence I need not feel restless about “this mission”! 3. What is the proof for existence of such a field? Obviously; I have no proof! 4. Another argument is; NAMASMARAN has no influence on individual or social life; practicing NAMASMARAN is wastage of
  • 35. time! One may feel that NAMASMARAN has benevolent role, because of erroneously attributing the good changes in him or her to NAMASMARAN! Actually it could be the other way round; that is good changes in him or her have lead to interest in NAMASMARAN! This argument also, can not be refuted. What can be said is that cosmic consciusness or objective bliss is somehow associated with NAMASMARAN. 5. But even this can not be proved. Neither can I show that some one is linked (through NAMASMARAN) to cosmic consciousness, nor can I can I prove that those; who are not practicing NAMASMARAN; are dissociated from cosmic consciusness or objective bliss! All in all, practice of NAMASMARAN and the experience associated with it are essentially personal and beyond linguistic communication. One may or may not believe in them; and may or may not provisionally accept, study, experiment out and decide their validity or otherwise! It appears however, that soon; the individuals and the societies of world; would get freedom from the conflicts generated from fulfillment or otherwise; of their physical needs, instincts, feelings, arguments, flights of imaginations, infatuations and restlessness, and get the privilege of being associated with NAMASMARAN,
  • 36. objective bliss, cosmic consciousness, globally beneficial perspective and policies and their implementation; irrespective of the nature of cause and effect relationship (which also incidentally; is a product of human intellectual framework!)!