HEALTH, DEITIES, RITUALS, MUHURTA AND PILGRIMAGE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Posted by on Thursday, 8th March 2012
HEALTH, DEITIES, RITUALS, MUHURTA AND PILGRIMAGE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
The ideas and forms; especially those of deities; appear to be created by individuals.
But is this true?
Is it not true that right from the conception, gestation, birth and subsequent growth and development of an individual is not determined by that individual? In fact, is it not true that; even the genetic constitution and the heredity of that individual is NOT determined, decided and developed by that individual?
The case in point is that of ideas such as three hundred and thirty million deities in Hindu Dharma!
Such ideas and their forms; are ridiculed; as if they were created by some stupid individuals. Actually no individual per se; decides “his or her ideas”! They are the product of time, space and several other phenomena in society and nature.
The idea of three hundred and thirty million deities; is most probably through the appreciation of the interrelationship between the time, space, cosmos, solar system, peculiarities of different celestial phenomena, their effects on life, circadian rhythms, consciousness; and the ultimate culmination of life into superliving i.e. self realization.
This insight of the seers; also forms the basis of auspicious times, days (MUHURTA), horoscopes, different rituals, different rituals involved in acculturation (SANSKARA), and different ways of worshipping different deities for their characteristic blessing (e.g. enlightenment and wisdom from Ganapati and Saraswati ) for blossoming into superliving.
As per the perception of the seers; the individual human existence is but a miniscule of the universe or cosmos (including the cosmic consciousness, time, space etc), the deities are cosmic entities with specific predilection or correspondence and/or subtle relationship with specific loci in individual human existence.
The individual human beings are near exact replication and representation of the cosmic being; the PURUSHA and His attributes viz. PRAKRUTI; with potential to be PURUSHA and PRAKRUTI!
Hence worshipping deities; is actually rectifying, healing and empowering the corresponding loci in an individual human existence through the blessings of these deities; (who are part of PURUSHA and PRAKRUTI; i.e. true self!); for realization of true self; and concurrent global blossoming.
Strangely though; several authors have criticized or even ridiculed many Hindu ways of life and the rituals. This is; due to superficial study; or because of extraordinary trans-physiological enlightened state; beyond the realm; of a common man, referred to as VIDEHI AVASTHA.
Actually; even though Hindu way of life; which is heterogeneous; has some grossly aberrant ideas and traditions; broadly speaking; many of the customs and traditions embody a step by step process of evolution towards superliving (individual and global blossoming).
This is why; even as Hindu philosophy talks about the immortality of soul; still it prescribes the SANSKARA, rituals, traditions, customs, conventions, different worships, different auspicious days, times and so on; so that a child grows, develops and evolves to the state of self realization, which is being one with the immortal cosmic soul; i.e. superliving; benevolent to universe.
Hence irrespective of the names and titles of the religions; the practice of worshipping the deities; and following many of the rituals conducive to superliving; would soon be popular, sought after and practiced in every nook and corner of the world; for holistic welfare of the world!
It is true that the legacy of the ancient seers has been destroyed, distorted, adulterated and vitiated in many ways due to preponderance of TAMOGUNA and RAJO GUNA; (again; a function of time and not individuals); in the form of brutal bloody invasions, carnages and genocides by some and of some!
Hence study and scrutiny of the legacy has become difficult!
This is also because; mere rote, mechanistic, reductionist and lopsided logical thinking and learning; without evolving internally (As in case of westernized mainstream education or a traditional gurukul); cannot extract the essence of past wisdom in e.g. nyasa, vyahruti, achaman, pranayama, deities and pilgrimage.
The egalitarian socio-economic materialistic perspective; also cannot grasp the core of the hundreds of rituals, conventions and festivals in Hindu Dharma. It offers simplistic superficial explanations these phenomena and knowingly or unknowingly neglects, trivializes, vulgarizes and/or undermines their sublime and pivotal role in the holistic blossoming of individuals and human civilization.
But study and scrutiny of ancient wisdom is most certainly required. We have to be honest and holistic for this.
Like the rituals and rites; the places of pilgrimage are also criticized or ridiculed. This is partly; because; their relevance as sources of vitality and vigor and conduits of vitality to self realization, for one and all; became redundant; due to unprecedented rise of TAMOGUNA and RAJOGUNA; in the form of mean selfishness, cheating, deception and superstitions.
NAMASMARAN evolves, enlightens and enables us to see, appreciate, scrutinize, verify and modify if necessary; the wisdom of the seers of the past (irrespective of the race, region and religion); who have left behind the invaluable treasure of the legacy such as Ayurveda, Jyotish, Yoga, Smrutis, Acupressure, Medicinal Herbs and so on; and participate in true individual and global welfare!
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YOGA AND STRESS: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Posted by on Wednesday, 7th March 2012
YOGA AND STRESS: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
One of the causes of STRESS in individual and global life; is; we have relegated the concept of yoga to mere physical postures, breathing techniques, kriyas and dietary fetish; hyped and sold for mere petty personal gains or gratification of ego!
This is largely because of the influence of reductionist and individualistic way of life; revolving around petty personal benefits.
This is not unnatural and we need not condemn ourselves for this.
However; this is not justifiable also; and hence we have to (not as a matter of compulsion, but as matter of opportunity, choice and privilege); explore, understand, appreciate and practice yoga in its essence and entirety.
Yoga is a connection between right and left cerebral cortex and yoga is also the connection between metabolic, endocrine, autonomic and central nervous activities. It is an overall ascending and integrated process of global perspective, thoughts, emotions, instincts and actions leading to; individual and global blossoming in every sphere of life. Thus it cannot be separated and isolated from:
1. The perspective of global unity and harmony,
2. The thoughts and policies of global welfare,
3. Motivation and concern for global welfare,
4. Mutually gratifying and satisfying instincts
5. Activities conducive to individual and universal blossoming!
Yoga is actually the experience, appreciation and manifestation of the essence of individual and universal consciousness; in every walk of life and through out life. This becomes possible primarily by clinging to the core of yoga viz. NAMASMARAN, which is remaining connected; with the absolute, objective or cosmic consciousness! The other procedures and techniques (including those in hathayoga) are at best adjuvant.
This way we can manage the individual and global stress in the form of deception, deceit, delirium, delusion, despondency, despair, defeat, degeneration, degradation, destruction and devastation!
We have a golden opportunity to practice and propagate NAMASMARAN and verify this; irrespective of our country, religion, ideology, race, tradition, conventions, customs etc; and irrespective of what we think and feel; we are!
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Health and Global Recession: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Posted by on Wednesday, 7th March 2012
Health and Global Recession: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
The root cause of global recession is petty perspective that enhances antagonism and suppresses; the holistic perspective that consolidates complementarity, inclusive growth and harmony.
This conflict is not new. But it has now crossed the regional and national boundaries and hence its impact has become global.
How does petty perspective cause global recession?
Petty perspective embodies inner cravings for physical, monetary, political, cultural and other kinds of supremacy and control; beyond physiological needs and the unscrupulous pursuits to gratify them.
Thus the industries produce and aggressively market (by emphasizing individual physical fitness) cosmetics, sexual stimulants; tonics, exorbitant spas, so called fitness clubs; for more profit (as against holistic health).
Similarly; the political leaders and their medical expert advisers; support such industries favoring the hegemony of respective different systems of medicine (as against holistic medicine); for petty personal gains.
We support such industries and policies due to our ignorance and/or indolence.
As a result of this; the economic activities in different fields of life; revolve around the petty perspective; and lead to exorbitant growth of utilities and services for serving petty demands of few and for ensuring the petty gains for few!
In poor countries; markets of jewelry, five star and seven star hotels and hospitals, unproductive glamor, wasteful glitter, petty luxuriousness, and vulgar yet expensive entertainment flourish; while neglecting the urgent needs of the majority. As a result; few of us become rich, glamorous, arrogant, but hollow, weak and sick; but glorified by media and gullibly worshiped by us.
Since a large majority does not have money to avail these five star services; the sale begins to fall. Then the rabid competition begins. This is often called free market, free completion etc. This is followed by the frantic and unscrupulous efforts to market such useless and/or counterproductive commodities and services, through mutually exploitative ways! This involves colossal waste.
The economy revolving around pettiness is sustained first by;
the sickeningly rich for some time. In fact the economy is made to appear booming; by the show of glamor and glitter! But soon these industries begin to slow down due to wasteful marketing efforts and lack of purchasing power in the majority.
But the economy revolving around pettiness is still sustained by the political leadership through loans, subsidies and waving of loans. In other words; public funds are pumped in these wasteful and petty ventures; while the majority is further throttled!
But the economy revolving around the petty perspective; and mutually antagonistic and wasteful activities; goes in loss when the last drop of blood of common man is finished and nothing is available. The industries can not get loans and cannot get buyers for its shares. The share prices plunge. Production of essential commodities being least profitable suffers most. The misery of we millions thus multiplies exponentially!!
We the common people all over the world suffer maximum, the investors with buffering power suffer less and the business houses with much greater buffering power; suffer least!
How to manage the global recession?
1. Teach the measures of inner blossoming and empowerment; such as hymns, prayers, jikra and NAMASMARAN; right from the beginning.
2. Nurture the productive domain and self reliant economic independence (stop production of unproductive economically dependent and helpless graduates)
3. Evolve holistic medicine and holistic health and practice in all the fields of life; thereby making the different fields; (industrial, agricultural, horticultural etc) complementary and synergistic to holistic renaissance by fulfilling the physiological needs of all; and not the morbid interests, whims and fancies of few.
4. Superficial measures such as changes in repo and reverse repo and other measures to save the diseased and dying industries would not only fail but further precipitate the misery of we millions.
5. The details in terms of laws, rules and their execution; however; have to be worked out by the experts with holistic perspective in the different fields.
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MEDICINE, HEALTH AND CORRUPTION: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Posted by on Wednesday, 7th March 2012
MEDICINE, HEALTH AND CORRUPTION: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
The word, corruption is used so extensively and in so many contexts that it’s definition, meaning, significance, causes, mechanisms, dimensions, effects and Total Management have become increasingly complex, ambiguous and obscure!
The corruption; of the political, religious, intellectual, industrial and other leaders in world; can promote and boost the corruption of (besides their stooges and supporters); any individual; in any and every part of the world; and vice verse.
Corruption is usually and wrongly equated with mere financial scams, bribing, kick backs; which constitute “the visible fraction of the iceberg of corruption”!
Hence; let us study the basic concept of corruption!
Actually the corruption and the enormous STRESS produced by it are as ubiquitous as life and the consciousness!
Corruption embodies; degradation of one’s perspective, thoughts, feelings and actions; being influenced by and influencing; the surroundings either consciously or subconsciously; and either knowingly or unknowingly!
Corrupt Perspective
Perspective is like the space of consciousness! Thus the normalcy of this “space” of consciousness i.e. perspective; is being universal! The degree of restriction of that “space of consciousness” i.e. perspective; determines the degree of the suffocation and throttling of consciousness, marking the beginning of stress and corruption!
Thus; the restriction of the space of consciousness (perspective) constitutes separation from nature, world, countries, religions, regions, provinces, sects, linguistic groups, castes, communities, creeds, sects and even our own family and from our true self and embodies corruption and stress!
This disease of corrupted perspective is subtle and hence not easily noticed. Since the medial systems today have not learnt to diagnose and treat the disease viz. “corruption of perspective”; they do not identify and treat this disease, which often inflicts the medical systems themselves!
Sectarian and corrupt perspective makes our thoughts, feelings and actions also increasingly mean, lonely, weak, inert, grumbling, intolerant, inconsiderate, resentful, vindictive and miserably selfish and pathogenic (many times concealed under deceptive glamor and glitter) for ourselves and the society!
The paradigms or premises; of the sectarian supremacy, racial superiority, financial expansionism, religious bigotry and fanaticism and so on (without concern for the well being of the entire world) constitutes corrupt perspective and highly infectious stress!
Corrupt Thinking
The holistic perspective or normal perspective as gets corrupted (diseased and degenerated) gradually becomes increasingly NARROW, sick and sectarian.
From this sick and sectarian soil of corrupt perspective, the sick and sectarian thinking germinates! Everything holistic gets degenerated into everything sick and sectarian! This is corrupt thinking and corrupt rationale; behind the coercive; international, national and local; laws, conventions, traditions, rules, pacts (formed without concern for well being of the entire world)!
Thus the racially discriminating constitutions, the legal discrimination on the basis of castes, legal yet unjust tax system/s to exploit certain section for the benefit of another section, the repressive laws against trade, shops and such commercial activities, the legalized destructive promotion of alcohol, the various laws and rules with respect to special economic zones and so on are examples of “corrupt thinking”! The present sectarian medical and education systems (conspicuously lacking in integration and productive domain respectively) are also glaring examples of corrupt thinking.
The so called corruption (embodying mere financial scams, bribing and even other corrupt activities) is actually crude and superficial symptom of the deeper disease viz. corrupt thinking, which in turn is the crude symptom of deeper disease viz. corrupt perspective!
Corrupt Emotions
The motivation behind the literature, art, media, movies, dramas, and advertisements and so on (serving the sectarian aims, petty objectives, and vested interests ingrained in the above intellectual themes; without concern for the welfare of people at large; or even at the cost of the welfare of people at large) constitute the corruption of emotions and instincts.
In our personal life; one such emotion, which we carry on from childhood; throughout life, is the craze for accolades, awards and honors!
In the course of time; awards accolades and honors become a means of profiteering in many ways apart from euphoria; for us!! They become a means of establishing upper hand, dominance, and sway of one kind or another; on the society. We enjoy this upper hand, dominance, power, which further inflate our ego and give arrogant happiness, which is not easily describable! But all of us have experienced this sense of addicting elation when our ego is boosted!
Corrupt Actions
The actual laws, literature, art forms, media campaigns, movements, and such every activity in different fields; either organized or unorganized (without concern for the welfare of the world; or at the cost of the world) constitutes the corrupt actions.
In personal life; we manipulate to get “prestigious” awards, bribe to get “accolades” and use every irregular means to get “honors”!
Isn’t it true that the degree of our petty greed and our mean addictions like these; in various fields (apart from helplessness and meekness born out of dire needs); determines the extent of financial and other varieties of corruption in our society irrespective of where we live in the world?
Considering the universal expanse of the corruption and the STRESS associated with it; from the brief discussion above, it should be clear how corruption and stress are really ubiquitous i.e. not only outside but inside us as well!!
The roots of the corruption thrive from the faulty perspective, followed by corrupt thoughts, emotions and actions.
Hence the efforts without this insight constitute a phase in the groping crusade against corruption, but can not eradicate the roots of corruption and can not blossom the global perspective and global conscience.
For this i.e. to rectify, repair, restore, regenerate, rejuvenate and effectively blossom the ROOTS of global perspective and global conscience the answer is; to break open the throttling shackles restricting the space of our consciousness and thereby effectively eradicate the corruption of our perspective, thinking, feelings and actions!
This is called HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE, SUPERLIVING i.e. Total Stress Management (the core of which is NAMASMARAN).
Interestingly; the theists practicing, promoting and propagating NAMASMARAN as well as the atheists with clear conscience; without this perspective; also; actually contribute to Total Stress Management (total well being, holistic health, superliving or holistic renaissance). They provide the fervor, motivation and driving force; and analytical, operational and technological capability respectively!
This is because; holistic renaissance or superliving an incoming thing; irrespective of our wish and will!! We understand this if we are fortunate!
References:
1. Stress: Understanding and Management; Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
2. Namasmaran: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
3. Smiling Sun: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
4. Conceptual Stress: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
5. New Study of Bhagavad Geeta: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
6. Holistic Medicine: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
7. Holistic Health: Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
8. Namasmaran (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
9. Tanavmukti (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar (Assistance Dr. Suhas Mhetre)
10. Bhovara (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
11. Sahasranetra (Comprehension of Vishnusahasranam; Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
12. Thakawa Ghalwa (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
13. Tanavmuktisathi Upayukta Lekh (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar
14. SUPERLIVING: (English) Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
15. SUPERLIVING: (Marathi) Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
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WONDERS OF WALKING: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Posted by on Wednesday, 7th March 2012
WONDERS OF WALKING: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
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Miraculous Advantages of walking
Physical
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Sweating secretion containing NaCl which acts as mild antiseptic
Cleansing of Skin due to perspiration
Prevention of Skin Infections
Mild Cardiovascular Activation
Activation and strengthening of respiratory system assisting in removal of mucus or expectoration
Toning Up of Digestive System
Freedom from Gases and Constipation
Relief from Joint Pains and Arthritis
Relief from Back Ache
Possible benefits of Reflexology Treatment Due to Stimulation of Soles
Supply of Vitamin D through Sunlight; if we walk in sun.
Prevention of infection in lift-Elevator; when we practice climbing the stair case instead of using lift/elevator.
Economic and Financial
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Saving of Electricity and Fuel when we avoid lift and vehicles.
Saving on medical bills because of improvement in health
Spiritual, Social and Psychological
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Practice of Namasmaran
Maun (Silence)
Avoidance of Gossip & Backbiting
Improvement in interpersonal and social relationships due to mood elevation
Great boost to overall stress management due to above positive aspects (of walking and climbing).
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