STRESS AND BHAKTI: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Posted by on Wednesday, 2nd May 2012
STRESS AND BHAKTI: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
The activities in body cells, various exocrine and endocrine glands go one and contribute to peculiar activities in nervous system. These contribute to our body consciousness, pains and pleasures. These pains and pleasures; in turn lead to desires, ambitions, hopes and despair or pride.
The sum total of these; however eludes most of us. Hence we remain discontent and disturbed irrespective of failures and successes.
The body however undergoes aging in the course of time and our restlessness and anxiety begin to deepen in view of impending end of our body.
This is the reason the saints have repeatedly preached to begin the activity of self realization in the form of NAMASMARAN; right from childhood; irrespective of whether we understand the essence of it or not.
NAMASMARAN has been emphasized also because; other activities e.g. exercise, diet, social norms, career building, etiquettes, manners, customs, traditions, conventions, rituals, festivals, hobbies, art, entertainment; are generally followed without much resistance and without much reluctance! But all these in absence of NAMASMARAN; are elusive and illusive.
BHAKTI is not mere subjective feeling. It is an objective benevolence to entire universe. It is true freedom. It is true selflessness and true fearlessness. Hence it is the real conquest of stress; and is the greatest “gain” from NAMASMARAN. Hence emergence of BHAKTI makes us richest source of ambrosia to blossom the whole universe.
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STRESS, BRAHMA AND BRAHMANA: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
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STRESS, BRAHMA AND BRAHMANA: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
One of the major causes of STRESS is inaction, which is caused by conceptual misunderstanding of the aphorism “I am BRAHMA”. We are BRAHMA in our talks, imagination and preaching. But due to insufficient blossoming; through NAMASMARAN and SWADHARMA; we are mediocre apolitical, petty, indolent, indifferent, irresponsible; and self destructive; in our personal and social behavior.
We do not realize that “I am BRAHMA” is true only for extremely few exceptional (transphysical, transphysiological) individuals; and not for all.
All of us are; Brahma + (body + mind + society + and many things included in internal and external environment) together called “maya”). Hence our aim should be to transcend MAYA; through the practice of SWADHARMA and NAMASMARAN; by evolving the international and national perspective, policy making, plans, programs and their implementation!
What is true about BRAHMA is also true for BRAHMANA.
Much has been written about BRAHMANA. Some praise BRAHMANA and some blame them for all the maladies in India. Some adore the BRAHMANA for acting as conduits of the knowledge and wisdom; from the ancient past to the present; and some hate them for allegedly writing and propounding scriptures such as MANAU SMRUTI and for allegedly being responsible for the socio-political discrimination and untouchability.
The word BRAHAMANA is explained in SAHASRANETRA. But a brief consideration of BRAHAMANA is worthwhile.
Even as BRAHMANA community; exists; and even as it is not easy to overcome the prejudices, preconceptions, grudges; related to a community; we ought to realize that every individual in the world; has all four tendencies viz. BRAHAMANA, KSHATRIYA, VAISHYA and SHUDRA and being BRAHMANA is not restricted to any community.
Being BRAHMANA (irrespective of one’s community and caste; by birth); is being in a continuous process of conscious evolution; embodying; blossoming of perspective, thoughts, feelings, aspirations, conceptions, articulations and overall behavior conducive to individual and global blossoming.
Holistic politics, holistic economics, holistic education, holistic health, holistic medicine, holistic agriculture, holistic industries, holistic trades, holistic banking, holistic art and literature, holistic sports and overall holistic way of living; are hallmarks of a BRAHMANA.
Being BRAHMANA is; the vitalization, promotion, regulation, coordination and harmonization of the KSHATRIYA, VAISHYA and SHUDRA elements; inside and outside; and realizing blossoming of individual and universe, as envisaged by Saint Dnyaneshwar in his PASAYA DAANA.
We all; irrespective of birth; have a privilege and opportunity to evolve as BRAHMANA; through NAMASMARAN; and participate in the process of blossoming of one and all. Merely blaming BRAHMANA or any other community as such; is suicidal for us; and also bound to throttle and jeopardize; the process of individual and global blossoming!
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STRESS, AGING AND DYING: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
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STRESS, AGING AND DYING: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
We are blessed with the opportunity to realize the SELF and experience the process of simultaneous blossoming of one and all.
Life is like a ripe alfanso (hapoos) mango. Should we care to taste it or worry about its getting deteriorated?
It is like being jasmine flowers. Should we smell and relish it or worry about its drying out?
Our body is meant to realize the SELF and experience the process of blossoming of one and all. Should we waste time in getting worried and anxious about when and how it is going to deteriorate, decompose and destroyed? Should we not use our body, consciousness and all the means and modalities; to merge in NAMASMARAN the immortal, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent ambrosia?
Practice of NAMASMARAN is a golden opportunity; irrespective of our religion, race, age, sex, occupation, nationality etc. If we begin NAMASMARAN right from now; then the fear of aging and death would vanish because we would have “won the race”; with the rapid processes of bodily decay and death!
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STRESS AND CONCEPTUAL STRESS: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
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STRESS AND CONCEPTUAL STRESS: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Conceptual stress is not a separate entity. It is a part of over all process of stress. We can also call it intellectual confusion, doubts, chaos, conflicts, suspicions etc; born; out of physical, metabolic, endocrine, autonomic, and nervous i.e. instinctual, emotional and intellectual interactions; with internal and external environment.
It is true that we should manage to bypass or ignore some questions, and rightly so; e.g. mathematical problems need not; as a routine, bother a biologist. Similarly, the problems of school children are best dealt with in the text-books and guides and the experts in those fields; and need not worry a musician.
But there are issues which are a) inevitable b) inseparable c) unavoidable, d) faced by most of us; and affect our personal, family and social life; as well as the life of the society as a whole; immensely. These issues produce Conceptual or Intellectual Stress!
In modern life; the pace of life has become very fast. The nature of the influences of the scientific and technological advances is much more complex and there are rapidly emerging new issues and we are unable to understand and deal with them. Morality, ethics, customs, traditions and conventions, which guided us in past; are being proved inadequate and/or irrelevant!
Conceptual stress results from day to day questions; such as celibacy or free sex, divorce no divorce, legalization of homosexuality or no, caste based reservations or no, charity or SWADHARMA, vegetarianism or non vegetarianism, theism or atheism, rationality or shraddha, productive element in education or no; and so on!
Health related issues are even more troublesome. Thus complexity, mysteriousness and dread of; AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, muscular dystrophy; cause stress.
To give a simple example, excessive and unfounded fear of cancer; is a case of conceptual stress. Cancer phobia many times results from inappropriate views, feelings and actions (conceptual deficiency) about cancer, its nature, its symptoms such as pain and its outcome.
A patient of cancer phobia may suspect that he/she has cancer, whenever he/she gets pain. If he/she gets repeated pain, in a particular organ then he/she starts suspecting cancer of that particular part! This leads to morbid fear, anxiety, worry, and sense of helplessness; due to imagination of pain, agonies and physical, mental, economic and social dependence helplessness.
Conceptual stress involves:
1. Defective or inaccurate perceptions, imagination, ideas, thoughts, guesswork;
2. Lopsided, disproportionate imbalanced emotions;
3. Unreasonable instincts and unnatural physical needs,
These are associated with disturbed rates, interrelationships and proportions in electrophysiological interactions in brain, secretion of neurotransmitters, hormones; and metabolic activities. These cause deleterious effects on personal and social health.
“Conscious” conceptual stress is minimal or absent if we are totally ignorant and adjusted to a self centered, petty, indifferent, reflexive, passive, callous and stereotyped life style like a lower animal. But still; there can be “subconscious” stress; and it can play havoc!
Conceptual stress is not merely determined by the technological advances and their complex effects; but also by our nature, constitution and overall resilience, tenacity, fighting spirit, patience, killer instinct and objectivity. Confusing information about the risk of computers and mobile phones, radiations of mobile towers, swine flu, bird flu, chicken Gunia, cyber crimes; creates stress.
Maximum conceptual stress is developed; when begin to grow. As our perspective assumes global dimension our thinking reaches out to probe into; and explore the mysteries of various natural phenomena, our feelings reach out to the miseries of the millions including animals; the conceptual stress multiplies! This stress amongst Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Lokamanya Tilak and others; gave new light to world.
Our conceptual stress also; increases as we search for solutions to the conflicting situations and observations and inexplicable issues and come close to the solutions; but encounter difficulty in expressing them! This becomes more disturbing when our solutions are proved ineffective, though not inaccurate! Since we seem to fail we get quite stressed in persisting with our views and mission; but cannot abandon them too! We are in agony! Why are we ineffective if we are accurate?
At this point the very foundation of our existence begins to shake and our existence almost gets uprooted! But through this devastating dark night; dawns; the capacity to assert ourselves and conquer the stressors on the one hand; and there is visible benevolent impact of Total Stress Management on the other!
The key factors involved throughout; is NAMASMARAN, which is very simple. There is no need of any technique, money, methodology, technology, cooperation; or anything for that matter. It is beyond all kinds of “barriers and walls” of beliefs and non beliefs. It is a super-solution provided by the immortal galaxy of saints, seers and sages; from round the globe, but most importantly by Shri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavlekar.
Lastly; every one of us is bound to go through the conceptual stress knowingly or unknowingly and hence; there is no escape. We can conquer it through NAMASMARAN (remembering our true self); and get the empowerment and enlightenment; and vision, clarity and clues; to individual and global blossoming; or else; suffer and inflict others with our suffering.
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STRESS AND FREEDOM: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Posted by on Wednesday, 2nd May 2012
STRESS AND FREEDOM: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
We experience STRESS; when our freedom is jeopardized.
In cellular jails the freedom is throttled in terms of even making movements and meeting people apart from all other things. Vast majority of suffer from lack of freedom of availability; of security, food, water, clothes, shelter, health care and education.
Lack of freedom of building shelters, cultivating and using medicinal herbs, cultivating land, running businesses etc; because of coercive and harrowing license system; or throttling restrictive laws; is denial of freedom.
Lack of freedom of moving to other countries, doing business in other countries, expressing ourselves in paintings, music, literature, movies, dramas and so on; is also a STRESSOR.
Lack of freedom from superstitions is also a major STRESSOR!
Thus; both the atheism and theism harbor the superstition of believing blindly; in existence and nonexistence of God.
The word existence is actually very deep and meaningful. We tend to ignore the deeper aspects of this word! Existence of a stone, existence of electricity, existence of laser rays, existence of space, existence of time, existence of a bird, existence of a boy, existence of mind, existence of feeling, existence of thoughts all are described by a single word existence. As a result of ignoring the different meanings of the word “existence”, the followers of so called atheism and theism go on arguing endlessly! Due to lack of appreciation of these meanings of the word, the truth i.e. the sense of satisfaction, unity, fearlessness, joy etc. keep on eluding us.
Let us understand that The God does not “exist” and does not “non-exist”; in routine sense of the word existence! The God experience is beyond the routine, crude and restrictive meaning of the word “exist”!
Lack of freedom to assert our conscience causes major STRESS. This is due to obstacles in our blossoming; such as; bigotry, religious and racial impositions, vested interests, fanaticism, terrorism, and pettiness of perspective, policies, plans, programs, and transactions inside and outside us! This imprisonment is fortified by restrictive laws, conventions, traditions, fashions, beliefs, films, literature, media and advertising.
Lack of freedom to be together (physically and mentally) also causes STRESS. We do not realize the unifying link, between us and others. Actually; every particle is connected by gravity, space, time and so on, and similarly but not exactly in the same way; we are connected with others; through consciousness.
When we define and hail political freedom; we have to consider these different aspects of freedom and see; whether majority of us in the world are FREE! Then we can work together; for total freedom to realize the unifying link. Moreover; through our perspective, thinking, policies, plans, administration, arts and creative efforts; create an atmosphere conducive to such individual and universal blossoming.
This is possible through the practice NAMASMARAN (JAAP, JAP, JIKRA) i.e. reorientation and realizing true self; supplemented by complementary efforts; in different walks of life. This is a process of overcoming subjectivity and being objective as taught by the immortal gurus; and is a core of Total Stress Management, superliving or holistic renaissance.
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