STRESS LEADERSHIP AND NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

The fetus and child are stressed because of the stress of mother. The students are largely stressed because of distress of teachers. The employees are mostly stressed because of the vicious cycle of distress in employers. Many such examples can be given.

But most importantly; the common people undergo severe stress because of the mismanagement of stress by the leaders.

While it is alright to relax and manage stress by temporary and palliative measures with piecemeal approach; for some time; if continued for long; it perpetuates distress cycle that vitiates the individual and social life almost irreparably.

Today; we all (the leaders and common people); are generally shackled in individualistic frames of mind, with petty, sectarian, prejudiced and hence divisive and unjust perspective, policies and plans and hence mismanage stress and spread it perennially.

Often; we do things according to our whims, fancies, prejudices, past experiences and so on. This lands us in the stress of deceptive glitter and glamour or grueling debasement and distress; with illusion of success that is proved disastrous later!

We (leaders and common people) therefore; urgently require a radical and holistic solution to ensure Total Stress Management in everybody; simultaneously.

Fortunately; the time has also come when such a radical and holistic approach and a solution have been incarnated and are available for us; in the form of holistic renaissance and NAMASMARAN!

The concept of holistic renaissance embodies holistic health, holistic medicine, holistic education, holistic agriculture etc. Universal practice of NAMASMARAN in the past, present and future; is a universal mega fountain of ambrosia that can enliven, empower, unite and harmonize the habitants of the world and is inseparably associated with holistic renaissance.

PRAYER AND HEALTH: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

As youngsters, we often faced this question of why should we pray before every action!

Let us see the purport of Ganesh prayers.

SHRI GANESHAAYA NAMAH

Meaning and purport:

I offer my prayers to Lord Shri Ganesh, who is the God of self realization.

The meaning of the expression �God of self realization� is very interesting and profound. In the nature there are various divine �powers� or �energies� and express or manifest themselves in different forms. Lord Ganesh is the source of the experience of enlightenment i.e. oneness with the dynamic evolving essence of the inner and outer environment!

It is therefore customary and appropriate to pray Lord Ganesh; before starting any work, because; it reorients us to accurate vision, decision, desire, intention, conviction and effective action; referred to as; SWADHARMA.

Another prayer of Lord Ganesh:

VAKRATUNDA MAHAAKAAYA SURYAKOTISAMAPRABHA
NIRVIGHNAM KURU ME DEVA
SARVAKARYESHU SARVADAA

Meaning and purport:

O Lord Ganesh with beautifully twisted trunk and gigantic body; you are bright like billions of suns. Please endow me with success in all my actions (implicitly; all actions be aimed at individual and global welfare and complete fulfillment) by overcoming all the difficulties from inside and outside.

Thus; the prayers of Ganesh; are intended to rise above pettiness and prejudices; which pervert our behavior and thereby our own and others� health.

HEALERS AND HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE is the development of perspective, policies, plans, programs and implementation; of these for individual and global blossoming. The message of Geeta is; HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE is bound to manifest; through the life struggle (DHARMA YUDDHA) irrespective of whether we support it or oppose!

Appropriate care and nurturing of all the components and their subservience to absolute consciousness would be evolved and inbuilt; in the machines, industries, institutions, organizations, state machineries, nations, and universe; and of course; in the individual life; in coming future.

The instincts such as physical activity, locomotion, urination, defecation, cleanliness, hunger, thirst, safety, sexual desire, parental care, breast feeding; and emotional needs such as friendship, dialogue, expression of conscience through art and literature would be fulfilled in an appropriate manner culminating in the imminent process of individual and universal blossoming!
Some examples of how this would manifest are;

The education policy would be evolved into holistic education policy nurturing creative, productive, psychomotor, affective and cognitive domains. It would ensure promotion of self empowerment, self sufficiency and self esteem and freedom from the need and dependence on certificates.

The indiscriminate killing of animals for taste, sacrifice and/or other vested interests; would be stopped; spontaneously as well as by law. Abundant availability of healthy vegetarian food would be ensured by different agencies/organizations/governments.

There would be evolution of voluntary efforts and laws, which would promote the practitioners of different disciplines of medicine; to grow into holistic healers and make it easy for the patients to get holistic advice and treatment for holistic health promotion and healing.
The divisions such as spiritual, material, theist, atheist, superstitious, rationalist etc would begin to dissolve in common pursuit of HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE through the common minimum program of NAMASMARAN.

The peculiarity of this age; is optimal conditions for holistic health i.e. SELF realization.

The objective cosmic reality, truth or God; manifests Himself; in many ways. These optimal conditions; is also a manifestation. It can be linked to the previous manifestations in the form of the penance, enlightenment and expressions of the thousands of seers, sages and prophets.

Eternal universal consciousness is NOW manifesting; in an identifiable form of NAMA; so that billions can access Him!

In common parlance; the imminent universal process of NAMASMARAN and realizing the true SELF; by billions; and the holistic renaissance - the individual and universal blossoming - a changing contingent without a regimentalized uniform pattern; is the will of God!

Intuiting this reality and sharing it with others is simply ecstatic.

NEUROSIS & NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

One of the major hurdles in appreciating and experiencing the cosmic benevolence of NAMASMARAN is; the erroneous perception of NAMASMARAN as an activity of neurotics. It appeared to be a prescription for elderly, inactive, pessimists, escapists and failed individuals. This perception is often strengthened by the literature, movies, and dramas on saints and also; the typical mood of bhakti sangeet (devotional music) and dhoon.

But NAMASMARAN is a panacea. It is for everybody, young and old, rich and poor, ascetic and indulgent, theist and atheist, scientific, and religious, active and passive, and so on.

NAMASMARAN is 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 appears neurotic and is depicted that way; because we are petty, neurotic and cynical.

INTRODUCTION TO THE GREATEST EVER MASTERPIECE
ON THE PINNACLE OF HOLISTIC HEALTH: AMRUTANUBHAVA
DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Shaniwar; Phalgun shuddha 7 shaka 1932
Saturday; March 12, 2011; 11:25 am

Amrutanubhava means the indescribable experience of �being� beyond birth and death. It is the experience of �being� beyond body, instincts, emotions and intelligence. It is the experience of �being� �the field� encompassing �everything in universe from all eternity to all eternity; including space, time and consciousness i.e. �the contingent�!�

The Maharashtrian saint of 13th century Shri Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Kulkarni (Shri Dnyaneshwar Maharaj or Jnaneshwar Maharaj or Dnyanoba Mauli); wrote this all time masterpiece, which can be described as the cosmic consciousness crystallized into words, which in turn; blossom the careful, discerning and intense reader himself or herself; into eternal cosmic consciousness!

He actually dictated this �fountainhead� of super life to Shri Sacchidananda Baba, who penned it; after completing the first masterpiece viz. Dnyaneshvari; the world famous commentary on Bhagavad Geeta; in similar manner; in compliance of the articulate inspiration of his guru (and elder brother) Shri Nivruttinath.

Dnyaneshwar (or Jnaneshwar) Vitthal Kulkarni (popularly, fondly reverently addressed as Sant Shiromani Shri Dnyaneshwar Maharaj or Jnaneshwar Maharaj or Dnyanoba Mauli); was born on the same day as Lord Krishna on Thursday midnight; the 8th day called ashtami of the second fortnight (vadya-paksha); of the month Shrawan in the year 1193 of (King Shaliwahan�s calendar called Shaliwahan shaka) i.e. 1271 AD.

He did not die! He voluntarily reassumed or re-ascended to his pure and free immortal state; amrutavastha; described in Amrutanubhava or Anubhavamrut; by entering and sitting in samadhi in an underground place; in a place called Alandi; (district Pune in Maharashtra state of India [Bharat]) in the noon of 13th day (trayodashi) of the second fortnight (vadya-paksha) of the year 1215 (Shaliwahan Shaka) i.e. 1293 AD.

This phenomenon is referred to as sanjeevana (ever enlivening, ever vitalizing, ever empowering, ever inspiring, ever blossoming) samadhi (the state of being eternal cosmic consciousness).

Amrutanubhava is in old Marathi referred to as Prakrut. Hence it is difficult to understand even for a person whose mother tongue is Marathi and/or who is well versed with Sanskrit. However it is not difficult merely by virtue of its language; but by virtue of its being truly beyond every possible reach of human genius.

One can hope to understand, appreciate and experience its purport by not only reading it with acute, pin point attention and concentration; but by actually getting submerged, dissolved and reunified into cosmic consciousness; through the practice of NAMASMARAN.

There are ten chapters in Amrutanubhava
The first is; Shiva Shakti Samavesha Namana.
When we reach the root of our consciousness we experience the inseparable two in one principles Shiva and Shakti. These probably correspond to yin and yang.

These are beyond space and time and barely reachable through individual consciousness.

In fact the individual consciousness begins to dissolve and allowing such dissolution of one�s individual consciousness into these cosmic principles is called NAMANA.

The second chapter is titled Shri Guru Stavana Kathana.

The chapter includes the praise and reverence to the guru of the author. In routine sense; the author and his guru lived as human beings. But going deeper one realizes that; they have been the beating heart of the cosmic consciousness.

Guru Stavana Kathana is narration of the surrender of individuality to the Guru i.e. cosmic consciousness, beyond the dimensions of matter, space and time and beyond languages of letters and digits and beyond all possible concepts conceivable human genus.

The third chapter is called, Wacha Runa Mochana.

There are four modes of expressions of an individual, which are called PARA, PASHYANTI, MADHYAMA and VAIKHARI.

Crudely speaking; these are originated from physical, instinctual, emotional and intellectual strata of individual consciousness.

The experience of transcending these is called VACH RUNA MOCHANA.

The fourth chapter is Dnyana Abheda Kathana.

Dnyana here pertains to pure knowledge or realization and embodies barrier less unifying experience.

This state of dnyana is beyond all the concepts of the very existence and on existence, origin and end and creation and destruction.

The fifth chapter is Sacchidananda Padatraya Vivarana.

Padatraya means combination of three words.

Sacchidananda (Sat-Chit-Ananda; Sat is eternal, controlling; Chit is vitality or sprit or light; and Ananda is ecstasy or bliss) is a word that is used to imply the experience of infinity in every sense.

It is indicated here that that the experience is beyond this descriptive semantics of SACCHIDANANDA also!

The sixth chapter is called Shabda Khandana.

It is proved here that every expression is a result of interaction between an individual consciousness and stimuli which are born from ever changing universe and hence the �experience beyond change� is independent of any word!

The seventh chapter is Adnyana Khandana.

Adnyana here; means absence or void or non existence. It is shown here that there is nothing like absence, void or nonexistence.

The concept of zero itself is a function of the descent of cosmic consciousness into transient individual consciousness and hence unreal in absolute terms.

The eighth chapter is Dnyana Khandana.

Dnyana when contraposed to Adnyana is rendered subjective and hence in an absolute state of consciousness there is no interaction of knower, knowing and knowable.

Hence the realm of knowledge vanishes in objective state of consciousness.

The nineth chapter is Jeevana Mukta Dasha Kathana.

Here there is depiction of a state of an individual who ceases to �live� as an individual with respect to his or her body, instincts, emotions and intelligence. He lives in consonance with or inseparable from cosmic consciousness.

The tenth i.e. the last chapter is titled as Grantha Mahima Varnana.

Grantha is the book, Mahima means significance or potential and Varnana means description.

In this chapter; the author inspires and enables the reader to �see� what invaluable cosmic bounties he or she is bestowed with; through this capsule of immortality articulated; in terms of the highest possible fulfillment or achievement of life for an individual and the whole universe.
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One feels;
This book gives not merely the solution to the unperceived and perceived problems; but enables us to see the solution, empowers us to rise and be the solution and also reaffirms unequivocally that we ARE the solution!

One also feels;
What appears to have sedimented from the cosmic consciousness, timelessness and dimensionlessness, wordlessness, questionlessness, omnipresence and immortality; into individual consciousness, time, dimensions, words or semantics or terminology, questions, individual frame and mortality; respectively; is assumed as �I�!

The true �I� the GURU described by the word SACCHIDANANDA; eternally exists; irrespective and independent of anything and everything conceivable by any conceptual framework or experience; of existence and nonexistence!