First point is: In spiritualism we often hear people preaching that you have to forget yourself in memory of God.

Prima facie this appears to be a horrible idea of complete amnesia or dementia.

The first reaction to such preaching is aversion towards spiritualism. In fact if you are honest and realistic, about genuine personal and social issues, then you develop loathe and disgust about spiritualism.

Those who preach this obviously do not seem to have forgotten themselves or even their petty interests, in memory of God.

Actually; forgetting yourself in memory of God means; being able to get freed from the nagging and harrowing shackles of individualistic or subjective ideas and feelings. NAMASMARAN helps you to gradually get freed from the harassing and obsessive reminders of your own subjective ideas and feelings.

Second point: In spiritualism it is often insisted to the extent of coaxing that you have to give up everything and renounce all the relationships and excepting the one with God.

This also is obviously shocking and repulsive as it induces hatred about all sublime and adorable relationships.

What it actually means is; you acquire the capacity to see every relationship more objectively in the course of time; due to being focused on God i.e. beyond petty self through the practice of NAMASMARAN. As a result; your emotional bonds in all relationships evolve and become mature, subtler and refined.

It is important to understand that of subjective ideas and feelings (memory of petty self) and subjective perceptions about the relatives, friends etc (relationships) should get evolved as a result and NAMASMARAN.

Arbitrarily trying to “forget yourself” or “cut off relations” can be harmful for a common person like me.

One can think over and decide whether to practice or not NAMSMARAN.

The third point: In spiritualism there is a philosophical depiction of reality of different philosophers with different perspectives.

This can be really very harsh on budding minds (if inadvertantly imposed) and induce a knid of cnflicting process in them.

For example when a boy sees the world and comprehends it in a particular way, it is counterproductive for the boy to assume that contrary to his perception is correct (e.g. Brahma Satyam Jagat Mithya) and his perception is wrong!

It is essential to understand that philosophy provides answers to certain questions. Understanding the answers can provide you 50 percent satisfaction and conviction. But remaining 50 per cent clarity comes only through experience.

In life it is always good to ask questions, seek answers and verify the answers on the basis of one’s experiences.

The efforts one must take for one’s evolution to internalize and comprehend experiences are called SADHANA.

In as much as it is wrong to try to blindly forsake your ideas, because some philosophy preaches it, it is also wrong to condemns the answers provided by the philosophy without practicing the SADHANA with some patience; of course similar patience required in any scientific experiment.

NAMASMARAN is one of such globally prevalent SADHANA.

As a result of deification of democracy, the voters and the candidates, have apparently developed an illusory feeling that elections and democracy are panacea for the cure of all evils. If not, at least we tend to pretend so.

Elections and democracy are actually the means (amongst many others such as study, analysis, experimentation, research, industry, agriculture, craft, business, art, literature, sports, rituals, festivals, conventions, prayers, various techniques of meditation etc); evolved during the development of human civilization. They are meant for ushering in the ambience that would be conducive to individual and global blossoming. They are not the end in themselves.

In as much as it is true that elections and democracy are important means, it is truer that assuming elections and the democracy as the end in themselves and neglecting the other means of global blossoming such as those mentioned above, would be naive and counterproductive.

From immediate practical point of view, isn’t it true and important that we get empowered to vote selflessly and bravely and elect benevolent candidates? Conversely isn’t it true that those who get elected evolve into able and noble individuals (if they are not at present)?

The visionaries have reiterated time and again that; NAMASMARAN i.e. remembrance of; and connection with; the true self; is the source of universally benevolent and empowering inner light. They have insisted and affirmed that it is the basis, essence and culmination of all the means; conducive to individual and global blossoming! Shouldn’t NAMASMARAN be our topmost priority before, during and after elections and irrespective of the stage of evolution of democracy?

The accidents on the roads are mainly, if not exclusively, (apart from many other causes), are due to excessive number of vehicles on the roads.

This excessive number is due to increase in demand of small vehicles and two wheelers. This is due to 1) inadequate production and promotion of vehicles of mass transport such as buses, 2) Artificial creation of felt status need 3) Aggressive marketing 4) excessive production and supply of private cars, auto-rickshaws and two wheelers and 5) Easily available low interest (easily affordable for a certain class of people) loans for purchase of private cars, rickshaws and two wheelers.

Ideally the government should have proper policies, rules and regulations for rectification of this aberration, in terms of excessive production. In addition, the government should also make it mandatory for the banks to give substantially lower interest loans for the purchase of buses as compared to and in preference to private cars, rickshaws and two wheelers.

But even if government fails to do so, the banks can volunteer and take initiative and lead to provide substantially lower interest loans for purchases of buses as compared to and in preference to the loans for cars, rickshaws and two wheelers.

This can have some rectifying influence in terms of preferential purchase of buses and running public undertakings and businesses of mass (bus) transport.

The persons in the money lending sectors such as banks, and especially those in decision making position, have to realize that their concern for the prevention or reduction in the number and severity of road accidents can be effectively expressed to the satisfaction of their conscience, through such a bank policy and its implementation. This is because even though, this measure obviously can not prevent the road accidents completely, it would certainly tackle one of the major causes of road accidents, viz. easy financing and thereby unabated increase in the number of vehicles on the roads. This would surely reduce the number and severity of accidents.

This point certainly does not undermine the importance of the individual precautions. But it is important to realize that this measure is not merely complementary to all the precautions the car owners, drivers, pedestrians and the traffic police should take, but its impact, like that of any accurate decision, is far more effective, widespread and on massive scale than any individual or institutional precautions, taken in isolation.