GLIMPSE OF GONDAVLE: THE INFINITE SOURCE OF EMANCIPATING SPIRIT: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

In the India, there is Maharashtra State. This state is famous for many meritorious characteristics. The most outstanding of which, is the galaxy of individuals who had realized (not merely understood or known) the truth and imparted it to the mankind. Truth realization is ATMAPRACHITI (the word self realization does not convey the content of the word ATMAPRACHITI because the word ‘self’ does not convey the essence of the word ATMAN.

Truth realized individuals are not mere erudite orators, who preach, perform so called miracles, or merely do philanthropic work! They revive us from the stupefying dungeon of mortal subjective realm; into immortal objective consciousness.

Thus in Maharashtra, there have been truth realized individuals such as Dnyaneshvar, Ramadas, Tukaram, Eknath, Muktai and in 19th and 20th century Akkalkot Swami, Saibaba, Gajanan Maharaj and many others. One of these truth realized individuals was Shri Brahmachaitanya Gondavlekar Maharaj.

Gondavlekar Maharaj(1845-1913); had come in contact with Shri Saibaba, Akkalkot Swami, Vasudev Balavant Phadke, Lokamanya Tilak and also Nanasaheb Peshave (Biography of Gondavlekar Maharaj, by K.V. Belsare). He extensively toured India three times; and rest of the life he lived in Gondavle. His life exemplifies how a truth realized individual’s consciousness is one with the cosmic consciousness and benevolent to universe.

Gondavle is full of daily activities (conducive to individual and global blossoming) called NITYOPASANA (nitya = one which continues uninterrupted and upasana means getting nearer to God or truth). People interested in truth realization and/or global welfare; visit Gondavle, usually stay here and participate in NITYOPASANA and/or offer services in various ways; in this MAHA YAJNYA, SAMASHTI YOGA or MEGAPROCESS of GLOBAL BLOSSOMING and get set on proper path of ultimate fulfillment viz. individual and global blossoming in life.

The food and stay for specific period of time are kept free of cost as an expression of supremely benevolent supertransaction; beyond mercenary, commercial, professional and philanthropic concepts! Gondavle is near places such as Dahivadi, Pusegaon, Koregaon, Satara, Phaltan, Vita, Tasgaon etc. and about 60 to 90 km from Pandharpur, Pune, Sangli, Miraj, Mahabaleshvar etc. From Mumbai, Panvel, Vashi, New Mumbai, Lonavla, Thane one can drive to Gondavle in 5 to 7 hours by express highway.

Address & Phone
Shri Sadguru Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavlekar Chaitanyopasana (Sansthan)
At & P.O. Gondavle (Budruk), Taluka: Man, District: Satara
Pin code: 415 540;
Phone: 02165- 258292

HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Today; we are leaders for namesake. Actually we are the helpless prisoners; shackled in our drawbacks, deficiencies, degeneration, disease; and deterioration. We are victims; of the morbidity inside and outside, which we keep on surrendering to; and spreading knowingly or unknowingly to our family, our working places and our society; and pave a way of; all encompassing destruction!

We and our stooges; get spiritually destroyed through economic abundance; associated with spiritual antipathy and degeneration; and ensure the destruction of people through economic scarcity; associated with spiritual apathy and debility.

Even as we boast of the vain glory of our hollow leadership; we are actually beggars and seekers.

Our mediocrity and/or idiosyncrasies sometimes match with those of millions and culminate in mass mania. As a result; many mass movements, riots and even civil wars erupt! The tragedy is that these violent outbursts nurture the mediocrity and/or vested interests; of us and our followers”!

Let us understand that natural differences in color and character; features and appearances; qualities and peculiarities; and limitations and potentials as such; are harmless and are part of human civilization. But these same; when generate pride and prejudice; and subsequent exploitation, imposition, pressurization, suppression, cheating etc; they become obstacles in the way of evolution of and practice of holistic perspective and holistic leadership.

Our sectarian perspective leads to consolidation of petty identities such as color, race, region, history, religion, language; based on petty interests; and divide and tear apart the world violently; in pieces.

Holistic leadership must have a vision of underlying global unity amidst the apparent diversity. It must also have the perspective and appreciation of the innate and inherent complementarity amidst the apparent contradictions and controversies.

Such leadership would inspire and initiate; the marshalling and utilization of the human resources for the Conscious Evolutionary Transformation, implying; holistic health, holistic renaissance, superliving and total stress management.

The terms; ‘welfare’, ‘progress’, ‘development’, ‘advances’, ‘modernization’ etc, do not embody the holistic meaning and content; in holistic health, holistic renaissance, total stress management and superliving!

We can be holistic leaders in our respective fields; if:

1. We prefer to grow beyond our biological potentials, by choice; and NOT out of compulsion, through NAMASMARAN; as it is the greatest of all gains!

2. We recognize our innate urges or the calling of our soul; and live according to “these innate urges” matching with those of billions (called “Vishvache Arta” in Marathi).

3. We inspire our religious culture, economic culture, political culture, health culture, agriculture, and even our news culture with holistic approach

MAYA, SIDDHI, STRESS AND TECHNOLOGY: DR. SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

Technology has made many things, thought to be impossible in the past; easily possible!

In common language these technological feats could be conceived and appreciated as extraordinary achievements. In spiritual tradition such achievements (though through different means and ways) are called SIDDHIS.

ADWAITA philosophy refers to the internal and external universe as MAYA or MITHYA, to indicate and convey its changing, fleeting and hence deceptive nature. I conceive MAYA as relative reality as distinguished from absolute.

Technology validates this perspective in many ways.

It is through technology (modern siddhis) that we realize that; on the one hand; what we ‘see as reality’ in the immediate vicinity with naked eyes; is only ‘apparent’; what we ‘don’t see’ e.g. electromagnetic radiations is a ‘reality, which is not apparent’.

The transmission of news on the news channels of electronic media; validates with great impact, that every situation, every person, every success or failure and every moment, are ephemeral, transient and fleeting!

The internet highlights the fact, which is not appreciable to otherwise intelligent mind; that millions of people are reading and thinking about what is uploaded; and millions of people are engaged in different activities beneficial or harmful to mankind.

It is however necessary to appreciate; that whatever is apparent through technology is also fleeting and superficial. In other words, it is also; relative reality and not absolute!

In fact, my hypothesis is; technology can create; illusions, delusions, hallucinatory effects; leading to pleasant and unpleasant feelings, elation and depression and also schizoid and multiple personality like behavior. This is due to the larger than life and hence unrealistic presentation of movies, serials, reality shows, advertisements and even news and other reports!

The technological feats (siddhis) thus can unveil the maya on the one hand and create far more illusory, deceptive and destructive “replications of MAYA” on the other!

What is absolute?

We find ultimate culmination of our life in the absolute or cosmic consciousness. It is in this cosmic consciousness that we experience the ultimate of bliss, peace, and harmony; and the way to this “absolute” is NAMASMRAN! We should not believe, disbelieve, accept or discard this; blindly; but verify this conviction; on the basis of extensive study, discussion, contemplation and most importantly, the practice!