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STRESS AND THE POWER OF NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
STRESS AND THE POWER OF NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

Stress in one form or another and described in one semantic or another; has been with us for millennia. The scientific, technological, medical, industrial, agricultural, social, economic, political and various other efforts in conquering stress; are definitely noteworthy and praiseworthy.

But the philosophical and spiritual insights and precepts for conquering the stresses in life; such as NAMASMARAN; are trivialized, vulgarized, ignored and ridiculed; or flattered and hyped and misused for self promotion. But in any case; we generally fail to understand, appreciate its role in conquering stress and for individual and universal blossoming; and practice it; selflessly.

Instead we ask:

What do we gain by NAMASMARAN? What are the proofs?
What are the advantages of NAMASMARAN?
What are the benefits of NAMASMARAN?
How are we profited by NAMASMARAN?
How can mere remembrance some divine name blossom the universe?
What is; the cause and effect relationship; between our success and NAMASMARAN?
Aren’t our gains, benefits, successes and all pleasures; by virtue of our efforts; rather than the grace of God?

The answers to all above questions are negative. Frankly speaking; NAMASMARAN does not assure any gain, advantage, benefit, profit, wellness and even satisfaction; and practitioners of NAMA are often seen in difficulties, problems and even agonizing stress! We cannot show that pleasures, prosperity, success; are due to NAMASMARAN or God’s grace.

But why do we ask these questions?

This is because; we have forgotten our own selves, our glorious and majestic identity. We are trivialized and oblivious to our own sublime and invaluable richness. We are trapped, involved, engrossed, and addicted to our own caricature identity full of pettiness.

We have unknowingly lost our power and control and accepted or even chosen to be slaves or beggars, in our own house! This is why we judge every precept and every time on the basis of petty personal gains or losses. We cannot think beyond these.

This is why we keep asking questions oriented around trifles.

Be that as it may, let us see what NAMASMARAN can ‘do’ to us.

NAMASMARAN rectifies although in the course of time; the basic problem of forgetting our own glorious identity.

It reminds us that the “house is ours”. We are owners. So once we recognize that we are the owners; we stop being miserable and beggarly. We stop asking for things, as we are the owners!

NAMASMARAN reminds us that we have powerful wings and we can fly! With this reminder, we begin to fly instead of miserably waiting for someone to lift us!

NAMASMARAN reminds us that we are immortal “electricity” and not the fragile and perishable “bulbs”! Hence our fear and insecurity disappears!

NAMASMARAN reminds us that due to our obliviousness; to our transtemporal immortal identity, we had throttled ourselves in the stress of subjective and physical experiences of past, present and future; and empowers us to free ourselves from our self inflicted anxiety, depression, helplessness; and stress!

NAMASMARAN reminds us that we should resume the forgotten capacity of riding on time; instead of getting dragged in time; and thereby ‘being victims of stress’ and ‘spreading stress’! We begin to live as kings every moment.

If we realize this, then questions asked earlier; become redundant and/or actually meaningless! There is nothing that we would ask for; and think of; in exchange for; or as a result of NAMASMARAN!


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