STRESS AND BHAKTI: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

The activities in body cells, various exocrine and endocrine glands go one and contribute to peculiar activities in nervous system. These contribute to our body consciousness, pains and pleasures. These pains and pleasures; in turn lead to desires, ambitions, hopes and despair or pride.

The sum total of these; however eludes most of us. Hence we remain discontent and disturbed irrespective of failures and successes.

The body however undergoes aging in the course of time and our restlessness and anxiety begin to deepen in view of impending end of our body.

This is the reason the saints have repeatedly preached to begin the activity of self realization in the form of NAMASMARAN; right from childhood; irrespective of whether we understand the essence of it or not.

NAMASMARAN has been emphasized also because; other activities e.g. exercise, diet, social norms, career building, etiquettes, manners, customs, traditions, conventions, rituals, festivals, hobbies, art, entertainment; are generally followed without much resistance and without much reluctance! But all these in absence of NAMASMARAN; are elusive and illusive.

BHAKTI is not mere subjective feeling. It is an objective benevolence to entire universe. It is true freedom. It is true selflessness and true fearlessness. Hence it is the real conquest of stress; and is the greatest �gain� from NAMASMARAN. Hence emergence of BHAKTI makes us richest source of ambrosia to blossom the whole universe.