Conquer Stress Doctor Shriniwas Kashalikar The news on tv showing; significant increase in mental illness due to poverty, unemployment and cut throat competition; should be an eye opener for all of us in the world. My books related to total stress management written about15 to 35 years ago and even my speech during my internship in miraj; had emphasized the socioeconomic causes of physical and mental illness and are more than validated by this news. My views were then; ridiculed, humiliated, neglected, suppressed and at best; appreciated with mere lip sympathy, wry smile and ice cold response of zero cooperation. My views ; more than endorsed by this news and its corollary; insist that we can never succeed in total stress management; without participating in the socioeconomic, political and other issues influencing our lives. We may or may not join a political party or an organization, but we have to assert our conscience, enlightenment, objective consciousness that is. Innate core of true self; for successful total stress management; firmly. All those (so called spiritual leaders and so called stress management professionals and so called yoga teachers); who are trying to advocate “merely personal stress management” and all those (political leaders); who are trying to solve social problems; through their ad hoc, petty and or callous politics; are bound to fail miserably. Thus; the number of so called spiritual leaders and political leaders; being exposed and brought to justice is bound to increase exponentially! The maharashtra government (and probably many governments in the world) is adopting alcohol promotion policies which ensure mass suicide or even worse than suicide! We all; if we witness these steps of government passively; then suffer miserably and exponentially; due to being party to the sin of passing on this legacy to the posterity! But this will not happen! Such policies; responsible for the suffering of generations after generations; would be averted by the rising global consciousness. Namasmaran that is. Reorientation to cosmic consciousness has to be the goal, the purpose, the core and the basis of every policy including the rejection of alcohol production. But mere opposition to alcohol without channelizing our vitality to cosmic self through namasmaran; can lead to defeat, frustration and many socio psychiatric and socio-pathological evils! Let us understand that we can not appreciate certain convictions, unless we have been sufficiently evolved and become reasonably objective. Thus if alcohol is our weakness, then we can not appreciate and support the opposition to alcohol production; even if it is destructive to us and the society! This is what causes innate conflicts and stress! Conquering these conflicts and stress; is difficult but inevitable! So, let us not be desperate and violent to others and or to ourselves! Let us simply practice and propagate namasmaran, assert our convictions, and experience the inner and outer revolution and individual and global blossoming! Many adjuvant measures can be useful in conquering from time to time and in different situations; but can never replace namasmaran!