NAMASMARAN AND HELPLESSNESS: DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Student: Sir, sometimes I feel helpless for a strange reason!
Teacher: What is it?
Student: Sir, I get sunken in questions; “How did I get into today; from yesterday; without any specific intention? Has anyone “transported” me irrespective of my wish from yesterday into today? Who is He? In fact; who made me live from my childhood up till now? Who made me feel, think and act?”
As these questions overpower and engulf me! I get terrified and helpless! I get shattered as I appear to lose everything - my possessions, my status, my passions, my feelings, my thoughts, my qualities, my values, my missions, my people and even the devotion and dedication for NAMA that I cherished for decades! My inner world full of love, justice, freedom and joy; appears deserted! This void is killing! I feel as if I cease to exist!
Teacher: Indeed your puzzle is uncommon! Very few people may be facing this!
The reason for your questions is this. We, who are actually beyond time; are trapped and wrapped in time, space and energy and the sensations, instincts, feelings and thoughts. This is actually trivialization of our selves. But this happens in most of us.
As a result we get addicted to this caricature state; and all the subjectivity and/or pettiness inherent to it!
As and when our true self - NAMA; involves us in its SMARAN i.e. NAMASMARAN, we begin to get deaddicted to our caricature state. But this deaddiction is painful. It does not happen as smoothly as we would have liked it! There are hiccups!
Your “helplessness and sinking” is the result of the “abstinence syndrome”, as is seen initially; in a drug addict, when denied a drug!
Student: Does everyone go through such deaddiction?
Teacher: Everyone goes through this process but variably. Everyone may not confront with the same questions and the same experiences. But this happens in every being and is often experienced by many as some inexplicable and indescribable restlessness referred to as; VISHVAACHE AARTA by Saint Dnyaneshvar.
Student: Can this happen due to physical pains?
Teacher: This happens due to the experience of physical pains, transient nature of pleasures, nostalgia of lost moments, dejected feeling due to alienation from the global events; and so on! All this is due to the process of “our retrieval to original state; from our amalgamation” with our caricature existence.
Student: What should I do?
Teacher: Always remember that the future road map is inbuilt in this state! The NAMA, true self or Guru; would involve you in NAMASMARAN and “restore” you from body and senses; to you original subtle nature! You WOULD get freed from the “hitherto cherished possessions as well as your caricature self”! Ultimately when you become the void itself, you would find NO VOID; BUT the whole universe TO BE within you!

A mentally retarded boy staying in a orphanage was bought to me with a scrotal swelling. The boy is 14 years old. He looks disturbed because of pain although he was not able to speak. I examined him and found that his scrotum was swollen and very tender.
The ultrasound showed that his testes had rotated and there was no blood supply – meaning it was already dead. His caretaker says its swollen since 5 days. Poor fellow. A normal boy would have come immediately with such a swelling. His mental retardation and absence of parents had led him to loose his organ.
I had to take him up for surgery. On opening his scrotum his testes was totally dead. There was nothing that i could do for an organ that had lost its blood supply for 5 days! In normal circumstances such surgeries taken up immediately after the onset of swelling can save the testes. Most of the times I have observed that if parents are prompt and bring their child in emergency, the testes can be salvaged. If its late, the testes is lost for ever.
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ELECTIONS AND NAMASMARAN DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Student: Sir! I find it difficult to concentrate on NAMASMARAN amidst the cacophony of election fever!
Teacher: The elections and the people involved in them directly or indirectly are doing their job according to their perceptions and their capacities. We should do our job according to our perceptions and our capacities!
Student: But I get disturbed because; it appears to me that I am not getting involved in the process of ushering in the golden age for India!
Teacher: The process of NAMASMARAN is central and crucial to golden age! In absence of it the ‘golden age’ would become sectarian and subjective!
Student: Are you sure?
Teacher: I am cent per cent sure!
Student: But why does the practice of NAMASMARAN appear irrelevant?
Teacher: That is because we are still far away from our inner ocean of light and power - the NAMA! We need victorious and steadfast efforts to practice and propagate NAMASMARAN!
Student: Thank you Sir! I shall try my best!

QUESTIONS AND NAMASMARAN :DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

The animals don’t seem to think about what, why, how, where, when where etc. A new born baby also does not seem to think that way.
But for some reason or the other; many of us are drowned in such questions for their life time! In fact; these questions are considered to be the backbone of learning. Even the fine arts, which otherwise seem to require no questions; on keener observation; are found to be enriched through these questions.
In short; human civilization and its development would not have been what it is today; in absence of these questions.
But interestingly, in the process of getting answers to many questions; we get entangled in newer questions; in the field of technology, science, art, ethics, philosophy and son!
The when the universe originated, why it originated, till where it extends, how it functions, what its purpose is; are all unknown. Naturally there are some efforts to provide answers, but they are obviously unsatisfactory.
All questions and answers; born from our instincts, feelings and thoughts even though unavoidable; are incomplete and do not yield ultimate fulfillment.
The past, present and future of “me”, every living being and the infinite universe are not known. There is a frightening and unending dark vacuum. But NAMASMARAN takes us to a realm of questionless completeness and fulfillment viz. NAMA, our Guru. He encompasses our past, present and future and is our final destination; contingent in whom is the creation and destruction of “me” and everything else.

NAMA, NAMASMARAN AND TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT (LAST PART 28): DR SHRINIWAS J. KASHALIKAR

Student: Now I can somewhat understand your peaceful dynamism!

Teacher: It is a great solace to be ever aware of the fact that Guru takes care of us like our mother! In fact Guru is our eternal mother! Just as our mother nurtures us in her womb for nine months; our Guru nurtures us through all our lives; through all the circumstances! Like our mother He delivers us at appropriate time; to the realm of immortality; His abode! This is the ultimate victory called GURU-BHET (being one with true self) and GURU KRUPA (the awareness of His most fulfilling benevolence and bounties)!

Student: Sir! Even though I understand what you say and would not like to refute it; isn’t it difficult; at least initially; to believe that Guru does everything; including whatever we can or cannot witness?

Teacher: This question does arise initially! It is because; we have not yet experienced the total control of Guru! Even if we repeatedly reiterate that our Guru is none other than the Almighty Himself; we are always influenced by and involved in; His personal life, His nature, His charisma, His feelings, His articulate preaching and His supernatural and superhuman feats; all embodied in His human form! This is our view about other mystics, prophets and incarnations as well! All of them; while extraordinary, superhuman and supernatural; still have limited capacity; as individuals. Since in their human form; they don’t govern; the complex scientific inventions, rapidly developing intriguing technology, world wars, earth quakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and several cosmic phenomena, we find it difficult to believe in “Guru does everything”!

Student: In other words; we find it difficult to believe in supreme control of Guru; because; we identify Guru or prophets with their human forms!

Teacher: Yes! They appear to be the contingents in the cosmos; to us. The events in the universe appear to be either the products of the concerned individuals or teams; or impersonal, unplanned and automatic. They do not appear to be under the control of our Guru or any other prophet!
Actually; the Guru, mystics, prophets and incarnations of God in human form “do not do” (and do not say; “they do”). They know that their human forms actually “do not” do anything! Their human forms are merely the peripheral instruments through which the activities are executed not caused, designed or controlled! They are aware of the fact that the essence or root of all them as individuals; is the invisible supreme controller; the Mahakaran, the NAMA!

Student: I remember many saints saying that God does everything!

Teacher: Moreover; when it is said that Guru ‘does’; it does not imply an action such as driving a car, delivering a speech or cooking. Here doing implies ultimate control. An inexact analogy is that of superliving space-time! In absence of such superliving space-time; nothing would exist; nothing would work!

Student: This is rather difficult to comprehend! I will just restate and confirm! Firstly; the human forms are not doers; and secondly the expression “Guru does everything” actually implies a supreme and inevitable control! Am I right?

Teacher: Yes! Exactly! Even; all this “writing” and “I” are contingent amidst the eternal kingdom and supreme reign of my Guru i.e. NAMA. “SHRIRAM SAMARTH” also implies the same as “Guru or NAMA does everything”! To put in other way; what we perceive, feel and respond to; constitutes; changing, dependent, deceptive and limited “effects” and NOT the self controlled, independent causal reality. We are merely the instruments, the puppets! Whether great or small, wise or stupid and good or bad; we are puppets! Puppets may blame or adore other puppets just as a sword may blame or adore another sword; for some heinous or noble act respectively.
The controller of all this; is NAMA or Guru; the truly independent causal reality. It is eternal and super controlling cause of all this! It is the ‘field’, in which everything else is a ‘function’ or ‘contingent’. It is the ultimate controlling reality beyond time, space and human consciousness. It is also termed SHRI RAM. The supremacy of this; in every respect is implied in “SAMARTH”! SHRI RAM SAMARTH is simply; the reiteration of this fact and reminder or reorientation to NAMASMARAN and NAMA!

Student: Now I am also experiencing; at least to some extent; the vibrant quietude that has filled you! RAMA KARTA also must be implying the same; isn’t it?

Teacher: Yes! It also implies the same. Looking at it little differently; we are some specific ‘engines’, with some specific energies, specific powers, specific capacity and differing versatilities. This probably holds true for all living, nonliving and other possible entities inside and outside. During our primitive states of evolution and during embryonic life, childhood and even latter; we are not aware of this! That is phase of ignorance.
At some later time; appropriate for us; we become aware of ourselves as “we”! We get charged with our instincts, emotions, thinking, perspective; and some pursuit or another. We begin to be flooded with and enthralled by urges! The urges when in the unconscious realm simply keep manifesting; resulting into temporary pleasures or pains. When we are in conscious realm; the urges prompt us that; “we have to do it, we cannot do without it, we are doing it, we will do it; or we cannot do it”; and give us the associated pains and pleasures; and agonies and ecstasies! Thus our life gets unfolded in the form of all varieties of actions inside and outside.
At some time appropriate for us we realize that everything in our life and the universe is the supreme orchestra of our Guru, who is beyond time and consciousness. RAMA (Guru) and KARTA (the ultimate supreme master implies that)! He is the supreme controller every entity and every event in universe! We also realize that the increasing emergence of NAMASMARAN i.e. reorientation to NAMA i.e. Guru in our life; is His bounty, His Krupa!
We become increasingly grateful as we begin to get an increasing and pleasant assurance from Him that He is always; literally always; with us; nurturing and blossoming; us in as much as the whole universe!
By now; it must have been clear to you; that this is a matter of study, practice and experience; and not of casual or cursory belief or disbelief.

Student: Sir, I have begun to experience the victorious revitalization! I thank our Guru immensely and whole heartedly; for initiating, enlivening, empowering and enlightening me; to be involved in His greatest ever bounty viz. universal mega process of NAMASMARAN and Total Stress Management; through you!
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SARVETRA: SUKHIN: SANTU
SARVE SANTU NIRAMAYA:
SARVE BHADRANI PASHYANTU
MA KASHCHIT DU: KHAMAPNUYAT

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LET ALL OF US BE HAPPY THROUGH EMPOWERMENT FOR UNIVERSAL PERSPECTIVE, VISION, THINKING, FEELING AND WORKING FOR SIMULTAENOUS INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL BLOSSOMING THROUGH FREEDOM FROM SUFFOCATING SUPERFICIALITY AND PETRIFYING PETTINESS