GITA AND HEALTH: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

My physical, instinctual, emotional and intellectual realms are contradictory and cause conflicts. Even as I keep discussing, reading and experimenting; they keep multiplying and deepened; instead of getting resolved.

I keep on vacillating between physical pleasures and renunciation, atheism and theism, violence and nonviolence, glamour and austerity, regionalism and internationalism, fear and bravery, followership and leadership and so on!

Fears of dejection, humiliation, and defamation, loss of the loved ones, illness, death and old age seem to make me miserable; even as I try to think and act globally and holistically.

Gita is a divine mother. She soothes, heals, inspires, nurtures and empowers all my faculties towards individual and global blossoming. She propels me into the eternal life, in which the deaths and births are contingents!

How does she do this?

She teaches through the arguments, which tear off subjective paradigms, including those of life and death; and enables me to transcend from my limited and mortal physical existence; to my cosmic reality, see my cosmic and unfathomable nature.

Since it is difficult to be (or even remain focused on) this SELF; she teaches me the ways; together called SWADHARMA; which help in this. Since SWADHARMA culminates in self realization, which is beyond words, space and time; it is beyond tangible, specific and demonstrable results. Naturally; Gita teaches us to NOT follow the results!

Gita teaches us that every profession, business, research, service, education, sports and art; be evolved into SWADHARMA (Holistic Health or SUPERLIVING); by connecting (YOGA) ourselves with our true SELF viz. cosmic consciousness.

One of the best ways connecting this way; is NAMASMARAN. It is the simplest way. It is upheld by almost all saints, creeds, traditions, prophets and religions, although with different semantics, methods and techniques.

WEIGHT OBESITY AND NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Obesity of various degrees can be agonizing. It can be pitiable. It can be ridiculous. It can be humiliating. It can be frustrating. It can be depressing. It can be destructive.

The most important way how radical cure from obesity results; is through the change in mind.

Our mind is always trapped in the our opinions about people’s opinions about us! We tend to get dragged in the whirlpool of self pity and self destruction. We keep on indulging or dieting and lazying and working out in alternation with no benefit whatsoever.

If we are eager and desperate to lose weight, we have to come out of this whirlpool!

This is possible only if we are convinced that we are living in a meaningful manner and develop self dignity.

But while we are in the whirlpool of frustration; we always feel worthless! Hence it is very difficult to feel dignified and worthy of accolades.

But there is nothing to worry.

The age old medicine (drug) or in fact panacea of HARI NAMA SMARAN or RAMA NAMA SMARAN can cure us!

It is very true that; NAMASMARAN is actually a mega-process of blossoming of self and the universe, but weight loss is one of its important and beneficial by products.

NAMASMARAN fills every moment of our life with the ambrosia that enlivens to the whole world through and along with us; and realistically lets us feel dignified and worthy!

Our obesity therefore should be treated as blessing in disguise and/or a waking alarm signal to start the practice for RAMA NAMA SMARAN while walking and/or climbing, which are otherwise mechanical, unexciting and boring activities!

HEALERS AND HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE is the development of perspective, policies, plans, programs and implementation; of these for individual and global blossoming. The message of Geeta is; HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE is bound to manifest; through the life struggle (DHARMA YUDDHA) irrespective of whether we support it or oppose!

Appropriate care and nurturing of all the components and their subservience to absolute consciousness would be evolved and inbuilt; in the machines, industries, institutions, organizations, state machineries, nations, and universe; and of course; in the individual life; in coming future.

The instincts such as physical activity, locomotion, urination, defecation, cleanliness, hunger, thirst, safety, sexual desire, parental care, breast feeding; and emotional needs such as friendship, dialogue, expression of conscience through art and literature would be fulfilled in an appropriate manner culminating in the imminent process of individual and universal blossoming!
Some examples of how this would manifest are;

The education policy would be evolved into holistic education policy nurturing creative, productive, psychomotor, affective and cognitive domains. It would ensure promotion of self empowerment, self sufficiency and self esteem and freedom from the need and dependence on certificates.

The indiscriminate killing of animals for taste, sacrifice and/or other vested interests; would be stopped; spontaneously as well as by law. Abundant availability of healthy vegetarian food would be ensured by different agencies/organizations/governments.

There would be evolution of voluntary efforts and laws, which would promote the practitioners of different disciplines of medicine; to grow into holistic healers and make it easy for the patients to get holistic advice and treatment for holistic health promotion and healing.
The divisions such as spiritual, material, theist, atheist, superstitious, rationalist etc would begin to dissolve in common pursuit of HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE through the common minimum program of NAMASMARAN.

The peculiarity of this age; is optimal conditions for holistic health i.e. SELF realization.

The objective cosmic reality, truth or God; manifests Himself; in many ways. These optimal conditions; is also a manifestation. It can be linked to the previous manifestations in the form of the penance, enlightenment and expressions of the thousands of seers, sages and prophets.

Eternal universal consciousness is NOW manifesting; in an identifiable form of NAMA; so that billions can access Him!

In common parlance; the imminent universal process of NAMASMARAN and realizing the true SELF; by billions; and the holistic renaissance - the individual and universal blossoming - a changing contingent without a regimentalized uniform pattern; is the will of God!

Intuiting this reality and sharing it with others is simply ecstatic.