STRESS
AND
CAREER



DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
When we are children we often cherish dreams of being somebody great in terms of being wealthy, powerful, glamorous, popular, and respectable and so on, based on our concepts of progress.

Actually our concepts are distorted and perverted in the whirlwind of superficiality, glamour and glitter! This has leaded us to virulent, infectious and suicidal pursuit of lucrative careers. This pursuit in turn; has resulted into rabid competitions embodying; such violent conflicts such as; pro reservation vs. anti reservation, pro privatization vs. anti privatization, pro donations vs. anti donations, legal procedures vs. illegal tactics, fair means vs. unfair means; and even pro corruption vs. anti corruption for grabbing careers, which give “license to amass wealth and power irrespective of the welfare of others and often at the cost of others”.

The basic fault lies in not realizing the fact that the progress actually means simultaneous blossoming of an individual and the society.

The political, economic and other powers, the literary merits, artistic excellence, the professional expertise, the technical skills, the intellectual competence; all have to subserve this basic theme or core of progress viz. simultaneous blossoming of an individual and the universe; or else; all these facades of “excellence”; nurture and promote indiscriminate conflicts and violence, which is what is happening today.

If we; the policy makers, educationists, teachers, parents, go closer to our heart and our conscience; then we would work for holistic education and ensure blossoming of one and all. If we are children; and go closer to our heart and our conscience; then we would be able to choose and work in a correct field to the best of our satisfaction; ensuring blossoming of one and all!

The way to go to our innate core; i.e. our selves; or our heart; or our conscience; is NAMASMARAN.

Let us take this opportunity to practice NAMASMARAN as a matter of topmost priority; and learn to reach our own conscience at the earliest and achieve the goal of blossoming of individual and the universe. This is also referred to as
AATMNAO MOKSHAARTHAM
JAGAT HITAAYA CHA