STRESS AND JUSTICE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

We experience stress; when we cannot come to terms with a situation, which appears from the media reports; to be injustice.

If we accept it as a wish of God and not allow ourselves to be disturbed; then actually there is stress of accepting surrender and remaining inert and impotent.

Alternatively; if we were to reject and revolt against the �unjust� situation, then we get stressed; because; we have no clear and objective comprehension of the situation and no convincing road map to establish full proof justice.

What is true about situations is also true about individuals.

We are under stress; when we try to forgive someone; even when we are not convinced. In fact; through; such arbitrary (and unjust?) forgiveness we experience stress of being coaxed to be unduly sympathetic, sentimental and gullible. We get stress of being helplessness and pitiable!

Alternatively; we are stressed; even if we contemplate or try to take revenge in a vindictive manner. This is because we don�t have unprejudiced and objective assessment and evaluation; of the crime or mistake; of that individual and don�t have the knowledge of appropriate and just punishment or prayashchitta; to bring him/her to justice.

NAMASMARAN enables and empowers us; to see the underlying active divine reality.

Through NAMASMARAN; we overcome; our casual and superficial perception of the situation and don�t accept or reject it. Instead; we keep focused on the underlying divine reality, and gratefully welcome its verdict (which is always just); while wholeheartedly discharging our duties.

In the same vein; through NAMASMARAN; we are no more �gullibly and sentimentally forgiving� or �vindictively punishing�; any individual. Instead; we are happily witnessing �the divine operations� underlying and discharging our duties!

WHAT IS CORRUPTION
Corruption embodies; degradation of one�s perspective, thoughts, feelings and actions; being influenced by and influencing; the surroundings either consciously or subconsciously; and either knowingly or unknowingly!

Corrupt Perspective

Perspective is like the space of consciousness! Thus the normalcy of this �space� of consciousness i.e. perspective; is being universal! The degree of restriction of that �space of consciousness� i.e. perspective; determines the degree of the suffocation and throttling of consciousness, marking the beginning of stress and corruption!
Thus; the restriction of the space of consciousness (perspective) constitutes separation from nature, world, countries, religions, regions, provinces, sects, linguistic groups, castes, communities, creeds, sects and even our own family and from our true self and embodies corruption and stress!

This disease of corrupted perspective is subtle and hence not easily noticed. Since the medial systems today have not learnt to diagnose and treat the disease viz. �corruption of perspective�; they do not identify and treat this disease, which often inflicts the medical systems themselves!

Sectarian and corrupt perspective makes our thoughts, feelings and actions also increasingly mean, lonely, weak, inert, grumbling, intolerant, inconsiderate, resentful, vindictive and miserably selfish and pathogenic (many times concealed under deceptive glamour and glitter) for ourselves and the society!

The paradigms or premises; of the sectarian supremacy, racial superiority, financial expansionism, religious bigotry and fanaticism and so on (without concern for the well being of the entire world) constitutes corrupt perspective and highly infectious stress!

Corrupt Thinking

The holistic perspective or normal perspective as gets corrupted (diseased and degenerated) gradually becomes increasingly NARROW, sick and sectarian.
From this sick and sectarian soil of corrupt perspective, the sick and sectarian thinking germinates! Everything holistic gets degenerated into everything sick and sectarian! This is corrupt thinking and corrupt rationale; behind the coercive; international, national and local; laws, conventions, traditions, rules, pacts (formed without concern for well being of the entire world)!

Thus the racially discriminating constitutions, the legal discrimination on the basis of castes, legal yet unjust tax system/s to exploit certain section for the benefit of another section, the repressive laws against trade, shops and such commercial activities, the legalized destructive promotion of alcohol, the various laws and rules with respect to special economic zones and so on are examples of �corrupt thinking�! The present sectarian medical and education systems (conspicuously lacking in integration and productive domain respectively) are also glaring examples of corrupt thinking.

The so called corruption (embodying mere financial scams, bribing and even other corrupt activities) is actually crude and superficial symptom of the deeper disease viz. corrupt thinking, which in turn is the crude symptom of deeper disease viz. corrupt perspective!

Corrupt Emotions

The motivation behind the literature, art, media, movies, dramas, and advertisements and so on (serving the sectarian aims, petty objectives, and vested interests ingrained in the above intellectual themes; without concern for the welfare of people at large; or even at the cost of the welfare of people at large) constitute the corruption of emotions and instincts.

In our personal life; one such emotion, which we carry on from childhood; throughout life, is the craze for accolades, awards and honors!

In the course of time; awards accolades and honors become a means of profiteering in many ways apart from euphoria; for us!! They become a means of establishing upper hand, dominance, and sway of one kind or another; on the society. We enjoy this upper hand, dominance, power, which further inflate our ego and give arrogant happiness, which is not easily describable! But all of us have experienced this sense of addicting elation when our ego is boosted!

Corrupt Actions

The actual laws, literature, art forms, media campaigns, movements, and such every activity in different fields; either organized or unorganized (without concern for the welfare of the world; or at the cost of the world) constitutes the corrupt actions.

In personal life; we manipulate to get �prestigious� awards, bribe to get �accolades� and use every irregular means to get �honors�!

Isn�t it true that the degree of our petty greed and our mean addictions like these; in various fields (apart from helplessness and meekness born out of dire needs); determines the extent of financial and other varieties of corruption in our society irrespective of where we live in the world?

Considering the universal expanse of the corruption and the STRESS associated with it; from the brief discussion above, it should be clear how corruption and stress are really ubiquitous i.e. not only outside but inside us as well!!

The roots of the corruption thrive from the faulty perspective, followed by corrupt thoughts, emotions and actions.

ACTION AGAINST CORRUPTION
Corruption probably cannot be eradicated, as it is human weakness. Theoretically; even if it is eradicated today completely; it is going to resurge; through the new generation.

But it can certainly be brought down to �least troublesome� level. For this; we need to rectify, repair, restore, regenerate, rejuvenate and effectively blossom the ROOTS of global perspective and global conscience; maximally! For this; we have to break open the throttling shackles, restricting the space of our consciousness and minimize the corruption of our perspective, thinking, feelings and actions!

This can be done if we study the scope and potential of NAMASMARAN as is done in Total Stress Management; and practice and propagate it as a common minimum program for blossoming of an individual and the mankind.

Is this not happening at all?
It is happening.
Actually; many theists practicing, promoting and propagating NAMASMARAN as well as the many atheists not practicing NAMASMARAN; do NOT have this perspective. Hence they may appear opposed to this idea. But actually; their actions; though piecemeal in approach; are complementary and hence contribute to Total Stress Management. For example; they provide the fervor, motivation and driving force; and analytical, operational and technological capability respectively! Of course; they often do this unknowingly and are unaware of the fact that they are serving the cosmic plan!
But this is far from being enough.

For an effective ACTION AGAINST CORRUPTION; we have to take note of the qualities; by virtue of which corrupt people; have been proving victorious over HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE, SUPERLIVING i.e. Total Stress Management!

The qualities of the corrupt people are many! Some of these qualities are; leadership, clarity, focus, seriousness, courage, commitment, lack of inhibition and preparedness to face any consequences for their action, patience, shrewdness and planning. They have no weakness in terms of compromising with goal! They do not pardon anybody going astray.
They are ready to take any risk and stake not only their own, but their family�s life in their goal.
If we introspect honestly; then we would certainly admit; at least to ourselves; that we lack many of these qualities. We lack clarity, focus, seriousness, courage, commitment, lack of inhibition and preparedness to face any consequences for our action. Further; we lack patience, shrewdness and planning. We keep compromising with our goal! While they do not pardon anybody going astray from their goal we not only pardon, but actually leak the feet of our friends going away from our goal of �action against corruption�!!
We are NOT ready to take any risk and stake nothing! Forget about life, we are NOT ready to give any time, energy or money for; what we call as our goal viz. ACTION AGAINST CORRUPTION.
If we study and propagate the concept of Total Stress Management i.e. holistic renaissance or superliving (the core of which is NAMASMARAN) to merely 10 persons in a day only once; then in 10 days it would go across the whole mankind as a weapon for the action against corruption; as follows.
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But this is what can happen if we wish. In any case; Total Stress Management i.e. holistic renaissance or superliving (the core of which is NAMASMARAN); whatever be the semantics; is writing on wall. It is an incoming thing irrespective of our wish and will!! It is our fortune and privilege; if we understand and participate in it!

References:
1. Stress: Understanding and Management; Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
2. Namasmaran: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
3. Smiling Sun: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
4. Conceptual Stress: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
5. New Study of Bhagavad Geeta: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
6. Holistic Medicine: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
7. Holistic Health: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
8. Namasmaran (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
9. Tanavmukti (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar (Assistance Dr. Suhas Mhetre)
10. Bhovara (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
11. Sahasranetra (Comprehension of Vishnusahasranam; Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
12. Thakawa Ghalwa (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
13. Tanavmuktisathi Upayukta Lekh (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
14. SUPERLIVING: (English) Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
15. SUPERLIVING: (Marathi) Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar

Much has been written about VARNA and CASTE system.

Even as BRAHMANA, KSHATRIYA, VAISHYA and SHOODRA as a communities; exist; and even as it is not easy to overcome our prejudices, preconceptions, grudges; we ought to realize that every individual has all four tendencies viz. BRAHAMANA, KSHATRIYA, VAISHYA and SHUDRA.

The BRAHMANA element predominantly embodies; vision, perspective and ideas, KSHATRIYA; courage and gallantry, VAISHYA; expertise to gather resources and SHOODRA; painstaking patient physical work that is put in.

We need to evolve all these qualities; according to our characteristic predisposition. We all need holistic perspective, thoughts, feelings, aspirations, conceptions, articulations, courage, expertise, physical steadfastness; according to our potentials.

Holistic politics, holistic economics, holistic education, holistic health, holistic medicine, holistic agriculture, holistic industries, holistic trades, holistic banking, holistic art and literature, holistic sports; have to be conceived. Their implementation has to be carried out meticulously with courage. This needs calculation of pros and cons for individual and global blossoming and employment of resources in appropriate manner. Lastly, all this requires unflinching dedication and steadfastness.

These are the hall marks of; healthy individual and society.

For this we need to nourish, vitalize, promote, regulate, coordinate, and harmonize the BRAHMANA, KSHATRIYA, VAISHYA and SHUDRA elements; inside and outside. This can be achieved through the great boon in the form of NAMASMARAN. It is the simplest and universally acceptable solution and would bring about the blossoming of one and all; as envisaged by Saint Dnyaneshwar; the cosmic consciousness personified.

Can the whirlwind know the direction of its velocity and acceleration?

Can the earthquake know its epicenter?

Can the earth know the direction of movement?

Can the body know the nature of inter-molecular forces?

Can the deer know the location of musk?

But all these don�t seem to be under stress!

Whereas we are under stress!

This is because; whereas we keep on darting intellectually, emotionally, instinctually and physically without knowing the destination; the destination itself viz. the core of individual and universal existence (our musk!) keeps on haunting us! This haunting; sparks the restlessness and stress!

The forms vary. The semantics vary. But the haunting is universal.

Since the stress is because of the haunting, which is often subconscious and we do not realize it; the solution is usually unknown to us.

Nothing is the world can manage our stress and nothing ever can calm our restlessness and anxiety, permanently.

The only solution to our stress; is; the process of our merger with our core (our musk!). It leads to pleasant beginning of the Total Stress Management; embodying simultaneous blossoming of us along with others. The haunting by the �musk� does not stop. But now onwards; it is absorbing, pleasant, romantic and fragrant!


The simplest and universally acceptable way for this; is NAMASMARAN.

One of the moot questions; is; how do billions of people live throughout with their spouse, till they die? What is the nature of bond between them?

Another moot question is; why and how are millions of people devotees of some body or else and practice some or other kind of religious rituals every day and throughout their life? What is it that motivates the people to devote their lives; for their guru, their deity or their leader? What is it that bonds them with their idol?

The rationalists try to analyze life. But beyond a point; the core of the life viz. the human bonds; cannot be analyzed. We can only experience and appreciate them!

Up to a certain stage of development; romance is a physiological need and hence an unwritten, yet inbuilt goal of life. There is definitely a sense of fulfillment and achievement in life, as and when one falls in love that culminates in a family and later a pedigree! In human beings; this fulfillment has physiological as well as social, religious, and ideological ingredients!

This fulfillment is however; insufficient after a certain stage of development (not necessarily age). Hence the people of various ages and different backgrounds; turn to some one whom they instinctively identify as their own leader, guru or deity; and follow, devote to; or worship him or her; respectively! This is a transition from jismani (physiological) to ruhani (spiritual or divine) mohabbat (romance).

Thus the natural leaders with different intellectual and spiritual stature; are gifted with; an inbuilt �concern� for the people of their race, religion, nation and at a highest stage of their development; for the whole mankind or universe! They and their followers have matching and fitting points in their personalities. They get bonded like the antigen � antibody or receptor � ligand; which bind with high specificity and high affinity.

It is not possible to prove this, but can be appreciated.

What is the role of rationality?

Rationality is important for us; to understand that the stupidity, ignorance and pettiness ditch us into the abyss of individual and global disagreement, discord, degeneration, derangement, disease, decay and destruction; and to reach divine romance, we have to first overcome these basal, barbaric and beastly elements inside us and also outside us!

But since the same rationality often laden with ego; may justify our pettiness; we need to purify it. We need NAMASMARAN for this ascent from the pettiness to physiological and human romance and there from the divine or universal romance! This is Total Stress Management!