STRESS ROMANCE AND RATIONALITY: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

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 by measures such as NAMASMARAN and ascend from the pettiness to physiological and human romance and there from the divine or universal romance! This is Total Stress Management!