SPIRITUALISM, MATERIALISM AND NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

Why are many places of pilgrimage; full of activities responsible for the downfall of mankind?

Why can�t the spiritual masters change these places for better; through their devotees, local administrative heads and/or the political leaders?

Why are these places immune to spiritual rejuvenation and or revitalization in view of the socioeconomic and political misery?

Why do we find people in pitiable life conditions in most respects?

The answer to all these questions; is:

There is a split or chasm; between the so called spiritualism and so called materialism!

The saints and their shrines provide the infinite enlightenment and empowerment.

But we are intoxicated by petty selfishness to such an extent that we visit the places of pilgrimage in a parasitic mindset. We visit these shrines and temples with beggarly mentality. We approach these abodes merely for trivial gains for our own selves or our families. We see social evils; but merely criticize them cynically and callously! We are ourselves degenrerated!

This is because; we have forgotten SWADHARMA, in which there are no separate compartments like; spiritual and material. It is holistic. SWADHARMA is holistic renaissance. We have forgotten pitru dharma, matru dharma, putra dharma, acharya dharma, kula dharma, raja dharma (duties or privileges; assigned to father, mother, son, teacher, pedigree, ruler; respectively) for individual and global blossoming.

The answers to all our questions are in NAMASMARAN.

NAMASMARAN empowers, enlivens and enables us to get reoriented to and explore the SWADHARMA, which is beyond the prevalent ideologies, which make us arrogant on the one hand and meek on the other. It enables us to evolve holistic perspective, policies, plans, programs; and implement them; in all the walks of life; including the places of pilgrimages and bring about individual and universal blossoming.