ROAD ACCIDENTS: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Stress if not managed properly leads to defects in regulation, control, coordination, harmony, efficiency inside and outside us and leads to hundreds of psychological, neurological, endocrine and metabolic disturbances; and leads to defects in the policies; which are responsible for excessive production and marketing of small vehicles of individual use and severe shortage of vehicles of mass transport (buses, trams, trains, ships etc).
This leads to increase in
1. Difficulty in disciplined and efficient vehicular movement
2. Fuel consumption, chemical pollution, import expenses, fuel prices and food prices!
3. Wear and tear of roads, maintenance expenses
4. Noise pollution
5. Load on meager number of local trains and other means of public transport [where ever available] and consequent accidents, quarrels and mishaps
6. Stress leading to defective driving behavior
7. The number and severity of accidents, difficulty in providing medical aid (and disaster management) due to difficulty in movement of ambulances and fire fighters.
8. Unproductive and wasteful work; such as insurance, registration and traffic policing!
9. Road crimes such as thefts due to difficulty in enforcing law and order because of slowing of police movement
10. Undegradable solid waste.
11. Area of concretization (at the cost of irreplaceable trees extremely important for avoiding global warming, pollution, rain and organic manure and open earth surface vital for absorbing and holding rain water) and disruption of natural habitat of the animals.
12. Difficulty for use of eco-friendly bicycles.
Thus, one wrong policy, due to mismanaged stress, multiplies stress in several ways besides increasing road accidents.

Selfless thinking, motivation, urge and determination emerging from involvement in NAMASMARAN empowers us to conceive and implement the immediate and most important solution (besides others) viz. the policy of quantitative and qualitative improvement of public (mass) transport and restriction of the number of small vehicles of individual use!

BEYOND WORDS: DR SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Our passions, obsessions, missions, desires, goals and aspirations are subjective and inaccurate. When we go beyond actions and words, born out of them; we reach our true desire, which is objective, selfless and hence is the same; as cosmic, divine or God’s desire.

NAMASMARAN (Sanctified action that results from and in turn, takes us to the absolute truth).is a process of going into syncytium of interiors; common to all; and without separating barriers! It is the controlling source of all actions, passions, feelings, thoughts, words and articulations; including the holistic concepts!

Whereas various enlightened actions, speeches and writings are useful; they are inadequate and feeble; as compared to this vibrant, vitalizing and uniting source of universe; NAMA, SADGURU, the true self; accessible trough NAMASMARAN.

SATISFACTION AND NAMASMARAN: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Student: Sir, in spite of years of practice of NAMASMARAN; I am still not able to experience what is described as satisfaction! What should I do?

Teacher: As far as I understand it, satisfaction is even more difficult than achievement of extraordinary feats.

Student: What do you mean?

Teacher: Practice of NAMASMARAN is actually a training of doing an activity where you do not get any tangible, predictable and measurable “benefit”! Being such a practice; NAMASMARAN actually transforms us to our original omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient state, which is totally devoid of any desires! This is an immortal state. But this may require not years and decades but even more.

Student: I don’t understand!

Teacher: When we are told that we should not expect anything; we think that we should not expect money, name, fame, power etc. So we stop expecting those things and start expecting satisfaction; because we think it is assured by Guru! But this concept of “getting” itself traps us! We mistakenly take the satisfaction referred to by our Guru, to be some kind of gratification and keep waiting for it; and are eventually disappointed!

Student: So what to do?

Teacher: Just as we breathe oxygen; we ought to practice NAMASMARAN. As per our stage of transformation our physical, emotional and intellectual needs, desires and aspirations have to be unhesitatingly and legitimately fulfilled through our own efforts; in the light of guidance and empowerment of inner voice i.e. our Guru! Actually our needs and desires go on changing or disappearing in the process of our transformation, without any coercion or suppression!

Student: In short, we should not expect anything, even happiness, peace, satisfaction from NAMASMARAN?

Teacher: It may appear strange. But it is true! For example, when we feel cold, we "want" or we "desire" warm clothes. But how can we want warm clothes or warmth from NAMASMARAN, which transforms us to our original state of being “fire”? Moreover once we become fire, how can we experience the warmth of warm clothes?
Hence NAMASMARAN is said to be for the sake of NAMASMARAN only!

Student: Sir, this is quite different from the emotional exuberance of millions of devotees!

Teacher: Actually, most of us are in need of some solace, some peace; some escapism and so on. Hence we try to cling to some tradition, some cult and feel secure in it. Often we infatuate piety, devotion, surrender, blessings, bounty, freedom from instincts; etc as these are our emotional crutches. We seek some social acceptability, social recognition and some social cohesiveness. There is nothing objectionable in it.

But for me; NAMASMARAN is a straight forward and transcientific process of individual and universal blossoming, i.e. “holistic evolution” over and above “organic evolution”. Hence my Guru Shri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavalekar says that practice of NAMASMARAN is for the sake of NAMASMARAN only!