TRIUMPH OVER TIME: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Physical pain, vertigo, nausea, physical deprivation, instinctual deprivation, emotional deprivation, intellectual turmoil and many such things are associated with suffering. Every minute lived in suffering; leads to a reverberating activity in brain. Hence there is agony of the past incidence and inexplicable anxiety and fear of similar suffering in future.

When saints advise us to be satisfied in a given situation, it actually means; we should learn to conquer the circumstances and not allow them to take toll of ourselves” and NOT be submissive or passive as is often interpreted!

The saints knew that this is very difficult; almost impossible; because the factors producing pain are very fast and work in the subconscious realm; like a guerilla attack! To overcome this attack one has to become subtler than “the process of perception of time”! But this is not possible by mere thinking! Hence the saints advise us to recite, chant and/or remember the name of God. This activity is called NAMASMARAN.

What does NAMASMARAN do?

NAMASMARAN leads to a kind of enhanced and integrated encephalization. Grieves of past, concerns about the present and the worries of the future; are strong; because of the autonomic nervous and limbic system involvement, are overcome; through integrated encephalization. This leads to the conquest over “the process of perception of time” and eradication of ‘dragging sensation’ in one’s life.

NAMASMARAN gradually transforms us from our petty and individualistic perspective into cosmic one. This evolves the ability to “witness”; the intense ‘personal and subjective’ experiences of the past, the events of present and the apprehensions above the future; from the fourth dimension! This is being selfless and objective and is often associated with premonition, clairvoyance and so on and elevation of the ‘individual life and vision’ above the physiological limitations of the three dimensions. This is ‘triumph over time’!

The concrete and objective experience of being one with the universe and transtemporal cosmic essence of life; is explicit in the 10th and 11th chapters of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita!

Since this hypothesis can not be verified by using animals, it has to be experimented by large number of human volunteers; spread all over the world, from different racial and religious backgrounds; and for sufficient time with sincere involvement; before it can be generalized.