STRESS AND PRALHAD: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

PRAAYENA DEVA MUNAYAH SWAVIMUKTIKAMAA
MAAUNAM CHARANTI VIJANENA PARAARTHA NISHTHAA
NAITAANVIHAAYA KRUPANAAN SWAVIMUKTI EKO
NAANYAM TADASYA SHARANAM BHRAMATONUPASHYE


Oh Lord, in general, most of the great saints, sages, yogis and rishis renounce the world, live in seclusion and observe silence in search of salvation/liberation for themselves.

Since you are the only savior for my billions of brothers; and since they can not get salvation from anywhere else (in case I do not seek it from you for them), hence I do not want to be a mean person to seek liberation for myself alone.

So says the great Pralhada as is articulated in SHRIMAT BHAGAVATAM.

The stress (and conceptual stress) is a universal phenomenon. Billions suffer from it. The stress is multifactorial and has to be managed in a holistic way. This is possible if the enlightened and selfless experts and world leaders with holistic perspective; come together and work in coordination.

Thus few can (and not all) understand and manage it; even for the others. It is their privilege and DHARMA to help others in managing the stress. Individual liberation and individual stress management in isolation; is not possible as it is intricately and inseparably bound with the liberation and stress management of billions others!

This essence of Total Stress Management was exemplified in the lives of the great mythological figures Bhagiratha and Prometheus.
Bhagiratha brought the river Ganga (hence also called Bhagirathi) from heaven to the earth and Prometheus stole fire from Zeus to save the mankind.