STRESS AND ART OF LOVING: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Most of us believe that love is spontaneous. There is no volition. There is no effort. There is not intention and motive. Hence this title; �How to love?� may sound absurd to many of us.

But actually love is an extremely familiar yet obscure and occult phenomenon; in view of its oceanic dimensions! In the process of trying to understand what love is; we get drowned, absorbed and dissolved in love!

But roughly speaking; love evolves within us, through all shades. It ranges from passionate fixation, to free and sublime bond! It ranges from; interpersonal liking, caring bond between a pet and owner and specific attraction for an object; to deep silent feeling of global benevolence irrespective of any thing and any particular individual.

One of the worst effects of mismanaged STRESS is �degradation, degeneration and desiccation� of love!

In other words; we can say that the quality and intensity of LOVE is directly related to the degree of success; in Total Stress Management! After study and practice for years; it is found that NAMASMARAN taught by immortal gurus; is an inseparable core of Total Stress Management, which itself is �the art of loving�!

The vacillation between; likes and dislikes, attraction and repulsion and favors and vengeance; is because of �our unevolved love� that emerges and is driven by physical needs, instincts, emotions and thoughts. It is controlled by hormones, autonomic nervous system and central nervous system. In other words; it is the product of our ego or subjectivity. We become strongly attached or united; when our wants are satisfied and strongly dispersed and divided; when our wants are unsatisfied.

These get added up and multiplied so as to determine scenario of life; on local, national and global platforms!

Naturally the antidote for this phenomenon is conquering, controlling, harmonizing and synchronizing; the physical, instinctual, emotional and intellectual subjectivity; by �evolved love� i.e. objective and silent global benevolence! This is �art of loving�.

The most rewarding way of learning this; is NAMASMARAN, which is a uniting, emancipating and organizing phenomenon; on universal canvas!

This is because;

1. Just as disruptive influences add up and get stronger, the practice of NAMASMARAN; by billions of people also gets added up and yields the result of bringing people closer.

2. The unique feature of NAMASMARAN is that, unlike most other activities; it can never yield retrogressive or mere individualistic or sectarian gains, benefits or profits.

3. NAMASMARAN is always universally blossoming. This is because NAMASMARAN revitalizes that core of an individual which is inseparable; from that of every other element in the universe.

4. NAMASMARAN may be (though not completely satisfactorily) compared; with proper control/rectification of the individual and cosmic homeostasis, which is vital for the health of every cell in the body; and every being in the universe.

5. We can pardon and absolve or provide PRAYASHCHITTA or punishment; and thus avail justice for ourselves or others; through the practice of NAMASMARAN appropriately.

6. NAMASMARAN is broadly comparable to an upward and correct step taken by the mountaineers; who are tied together by a rope (bond of true or objective love), climbing uphill. Each upward step; i.e. NAMASMARAN; helps every other person, while opposite of this; causes downfall of every one.


7. Our core is linked with the core of even the worst criminals in the society and even the smallest animal in the universe. In as much as we are affected by and are responsible (though not apparently or overtly); for the crime, we can affect and be responsible for the chastisement or emancipation also; of the criminals (though not obviously); through NAMASMARAN!

8. The objective love of NAMASMARAN can be realized clearly and convincingly by us; if we practice NAMASMARAN with this conviction.

The secret or cohort link of objective or cosmic love; between the cores; of the billions of individuals; becomes overt and manifest, (in the form of blossoming of an individual and the universe) through NAMASMARAN! This is endorsed by many immortal gurus including; Sadguru Shri Brahmachaitanya Gondavalekar Maharaj, who reiterated that; name of God NAMASMARAN would emancipate the whole universe!