STRESS AND CONSCIENCE: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

It is true that the technology has made life much easier for billions (though several billions have no access to it). There improvement in transport, communication, productivity, physical fitness and subsequent improvement in management, administration and physical efficiency.
However; this improvement is largely engaged; in wasteful gratification of our basal instincts, individualistic whims, personal fancies, petty pursuits, and trivial gains; with little or no attention towards our conscience and our innate core! They are moribund!
This has divided us; and made us lonelier. We have lost; our instinct to love, urge to unite, innocence to be spontaneous, and potency to conquer the adversities. We have lost the sensitivity to empathize, vigor to help and become caricatures of ourselves! We are drained of the very ambrosia of life!
If we want to rejuvenate our conscience and our innate core, then; what could we do?
The age old answer to this question is; practice of the ancient emancipating activity; NAMASMARAN (jap, jaap, jikra, sumiran, simaran i.e. remembering our true selves)! It appears preferable; however; not to believe or disbelieve in this; blindly; but verify the power of NAMA in redirecting the technology to serve our conscience and our innate core.

ART STRESS AND NUDITY: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

It is true that art is spontaneous and variably skillful expression of our instincts, feelings, thoughts and perspective. It can be even more profound! Nudity therefore may manifest in one way or another; in our sculptures, paintings and other forms of art.

However; nudity is conspicuous by its absence; in art related to our prophets, powerful people, mother, father, mother in law, father in law, brother, sister, daughter, son and even living leaders of our countries.

Nudity therefore; when appears; with respect to deities (of one religion or another), who cannot protest or object; is usually a careful, cautious and cunning (conscious or subconscious) expression of our basal instincts, in which we are shackled.

As viewers; we usually don’t go in the depth of this process; and hence attribute; some “ulterior motives”, “religious bias”, and/or “modern” and “revolutionary” qualities; to such art!

In contrast, the all time classic art is (whether the anatomy is explicitly depicted or not) the one that touches the hearts and stirs the souls of millions; for millennia; and hurts none! It springs from our soul; the deepest core of our being!

STRESS AND PROGRESS: DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Mismanagement of stress; manifests in defective, perception, feelings and actions.

Due to defective perception; there is deterioration of values. For example; we are oblivious of our conscience and misunderstand the very meaning of progress and well being. Thus; we do not consider the harmony, honesty, punctuality, discipline, accountability, tolerance, and physical and material conditions conducive to this; in individual and social life; to measure or assess the individual, national and global progress! We measure or assess it; on the basis of; income, achievements, positions of power, number and variety of luxury items, military power and so on!
Due to deterioration of feelings we have no enthusiasm to think about the individual, national and global stress; and its management! Instead; we are obsessed with petty pursuits (again; oblivious of our conscience); to increase the per capita income, accomplish achievements, get positions of power, increase the production and sale of luxury items, increase the military power, or simply delirious entertainment; irrespective of or at the cost of other individuals and countries.

Deterioration of our actions; is evident in piecemeal and/or sectarian and hence defective policies, planning, programs and their implementation. For example; our education policy does not have an element of holistic blossoming, our planning and programs do not provide for empowering education; but heavily provide money for wasteful parasitic education and crippling caste based reservations; and subsequently and eventually; our implementation is not honest; but understandably corrupt!

Similar examples can be observed in other fields as well!

Whether we are atheists or theists; whether we belong to one religion or another and whether we subscribe to one ideology or another; and whether we practice and propagate; NAMASMARAN (JAP, JAAP, JIKRA, SUMIRAN, SIMARAN i.e. remembering the name of God or true self) or not; these points; cannot be ignored; in the best interest of personal, national and global progress.