LIFE, DEATH AND STRESS: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

The stress is like an infinite and eternal ocean and hence it is impossible to study it completely! In fact it is nothing else; but the “eternal interaction” between the Atman and the Maya! Thus right from conception to death; and in all possibility; before birth and after death also; it continues!

The stress is inseparable from life. But it is said to end when we transcend the ‘life’, which is ‘ignorant or forgetful of our true self’ and hence considered to be “death”! As after we transcend such ‘life’, which is actually ‘death’; we merge into our true self; which is actually the cosmic conscoiusness or absolute consciousness, and is “true life” or immortality”!

Through the practice of NAMSMARAN; gradually our forgetfulness of our true self; producing stress of body consciousness begins to disappear. The body consciousness; producing the stress of fear, anxiety, worry; and tension of pain, loss and death; vanishes; as we experience oneness with our true self and the immortality.

When we experience the immortality, there remains nothing more to experience. This is the state of yoga and this is also the process of SWADHARMA i.e. holistic renaissance; which is associated with manifestation of universally benevolent activity (KARMA) from our true self; even amidst the symptoms of physical death!

Isn’t this a LIFE of victory over DEATH and STRESS?