STRESS ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO
Posted by on Monday, 27th September 2010
STRESS
ALCOHOL
AND
TOBACCO
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
One of the hallmarks of STRESS in our life; is discrepancy, dysrhythmia and discord within our own selves!
There is always a discrepancy, dysrhythmia and discord; between our imagination, thoughts, feelings, instincts, physical requirements and our habits! They are almost never identical or even in sequence, order or harmony. They may be not merely dissimilar; but often are; contradictory.
Thus we may not think the same; as what we imagine and we may not feel the same; as what we think (and talk and write). Our instinctual cravings also may not in tune with our emotions. Thus instinctual needs may force us to indulge in something that makes us sad and repent!
Hence even if we fantasize a utopia of some heaven on the earth, intellectually it may be inconceivable. Even if there is intellectual argument about good and bad feelings; it may not be valid in day to day emotional interactions. Even if there are deep sentiments about morality pertaining to passions; they may not match with our instinctual actions such as sexual behavior! Similarly irrespective of what we think and feel about our habits or addictions; many of us helplessly continue to indulge in them.
This is also why; spiritual perceptions occupy only a small corner of our thinking and intellectual debates occupy a small fraction of our literature and art.
In fact; adolescent and often illicit sex, voyeurism, crimes such as kleptomania, and habits such as smoking, drinking etc. form a romanticized and conspicuous part of our cinematic and dramatic creations.
On this background it should be easy to understand; why habits such as tobacco and alcohol in different forms; are popular amongst many of us; irrespective of age, sex, occupation, economic status, nationality, race, religion etc.
This continues to be so inspite of their well publicized risks for health; and their condemnation by the ministries of information and broadcast of different countries and several philanthropic organizations; in the world.
Whether the alcohol and tobacco are the culprits or whether our vulnerability to addiction; are responsible for the sway these things hold on our life; is a moot question.
Moreover; our nature also seems to vacillate between elation in hedonistic pleasures and some kind of fantasizing of austerity!
One question that tends to bother us; is; what are we going to gain by “sacrificing our pleasures and/or excitement of indulgence; while facing the reality of life; especially when no one can guarantee sound physical health and sound financial status; by abstinence?”
It is in this context that the ancient wisdom, which is valid today; guides us!
The seers of the past such as Sadguru Shri Gondavlekar Maharaj; comprehended all these and many more complexities of our nature; and provided us with; the eternally benevolent guidance.
Thus; our problem is of inadequate emergence of our consciousness, which is entrapped in pettiness of perspective, policy making, motivation and actions, inevitably associated with excitement of petty gains and misery of petty failures!
Hence; even if we are not addicted to tobacco, alcohol or anything else, (and may take pride in it); we still can be destructive to self and the others.
Hence they did not indulge in fanatic and inconsiderate condemnation or blatant encouragement of our vulnerability and weakness. In stead; they provided us with the means of empowerment and enlightenment to rise above and grow out of the vulnerability, weakness, weariness and pettiness! They enabled us to overcome the attitude of delirious justification and pride; as well as the incapacitating sense of guilt about our addictions and habits!
They showed us the way of fulfillment of our life. They actually showed us the immortal and sublimely romantic culmination of the essence of our perspective, imagination, thoughts, feelings, instincts, needs and also our habits! They gave us a holistic solution to evolve a sublimely meaningful life, instead of nagging or pampering us; about our habits in isolation!!
Hence; in stead of going into the domestic, economic, medical, cultural and other angles and issues involved in the habits/addictions (including those of tobacco and alcohol); with a fragmented approach; we should (at least provisionally) unhesitatingly accept and verify the scope and limitations of the holistic solution provided by the seers!
Which is this holistic solution?
This holistic solution is; a really universal practice of NAMASMARAN that endows the enlightenment and empowerment on us; irrespective of our age, sex, occupation, religion, race, nationality etc; to blossom all inclusively and experience the ultimate fulfillment in life!
In fact; the benevolence of NAMASMARAN does not limit to helping us to conquer alcohol and tobacco; but it reveals to us; the individual and global blossoming embodied in Total Stress Management; which is the mega synthesis or mega reunion of philosophy and science, spiritualism and materialism; and theism and atheism!
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STRESS RESERVATIONS AND COMMUNALISM
Posted by on Monday, 27th September 2010
STRESS
RESERVATIONS
AND
COMMUNALISM
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
Merely belonging to different castes, different religions or merely following certain customs, which are running through the generations in a family and a community etc. do not make us discriminatory, unjust, prejudiced and communal; and does not produce STRESS of communalism!
According to the world book dictionary, communalism refers to self-governance of a commune or communes and this is a kind of federalism. Communal means related to commune.
In Sanskrit there is a SUBHASHITA
PINDE PINDE MATIH BHINNAH
KUNDE KUNDE NAVAM PAYAH
JATO JATO NAVACHARAH
NAVA VANEE MUKHE MUKHE
The meaning of this SUBHASHITA is simple and enlightening. It boosts the spirit of tolerance.
It implies, every individual has different intellectual capacity, every source of water contains water with different characteristics and composition, every community has different tradition; and different linguistic expression is present in every individual mouth!
But in India this word has different connotation. In India, communalism implies disproportionate pride, concern about one’s caste, tribe, religion or any such group and disproportionate contempt, hatred and prejudice about those of others.
This is almost always associated with practices harmful to others. Communalism has become an everyday problem. It has infiltrated every walk and every stratum of life; like a cancer. Thus political parties, a variety of unions, various organizations etc and associations are diseased with communalism. Similarly, policies regarding employment, promotions, admission to different educational careers, competitive examinations in almost every sphere of life have been infiltrated by communalism.
To understand and overcome the menace of communalism and bring about harmony and justice in society effectively; we have to understand the caste system and the caste specific job distribution that has come into existence and remained for centuries and the emergence of religions and their impact on social life. In this article; we will consider the development of caste system.
In my view, (my theory of the emergence of caste system that disapproves the conspiracy and exploitation theories) the caste system in India was based on the physiological principle of homeostasis where many different type of cells perform different functions so as to maintain constancy of internal environment and thereby health of the organism.
Secondly it was based on the principle of variety, complementarity and harmony in nature. Thus the emergence of caste system was based on the observation that neither in body nor in nature the individual components perform the same work or job. In fact this kind of “equality” is dangerous. Complementarity of components is important and conducive to health. This entailed distribution of different jobs. This distribution of the jobs initially depended on the capacity.
However the distribution of jobs gradually became independent of the capacity and started depending on one’s caste. How could have this happened?
Firstly, it appears to me that this took place because of the observation; that the tissues performing a particular function in body; give rise to the cells with the same functions.
Secondly; there is heredity in nature. The mango tree gives mango fruits, banana tree gives banana and coconut tree gives coconuts. The offspring of a tiger is tiger and offspring of a cat is a cat.
Thus the fact the tissues give rise to daughter cells performing the same function and the plants and animals reproduce their own replicas; was probably extrapolated to the human society.
It must have been thought that such heredity must be working in human beings also. In fact, such extrapolation must have been buttressed by the observations that children do carry the traits of their parents which may include, from mathematical talents to musical skills, besides physical constitution and looks. In fact even today we use expressions such as “There is music in his blood”, “There is acting in his blood” “There is business in his blood” and so on. These expressions are based on observations of centuries. So every community was seen or perceived as a particular organ or tissue, which would give rise to specific type of cells; and subserve the homeostasis in the organism viz. holistic welfare or blossoming of the mankind!
The second reason for this change must have been due one of the most prevalent concepts viz. KARMA PHALA SIDDHANTA. In Marathi this is expressed as KARAVE TASE BHARAVE. In English this is expressed through “As you sow, so you reap”.
This concept gives a basis for why a particular child is born in a particular community or caste. This led to the notion that those who are born in a particular caste are born according their deeds in the past life. This lent a conceptual foundation for the stability and continuance of the caste dependent job distribution. So every individual in a particular community, caste, subcaste; was conceived as a particular individual cell in a tissue.
Now it can be appreciated why there were restrictions on all the communities (analogous to organs or tissues) to do a particular job.
Obviously this was to achieve social homeostasis (analogous to homeostasis in an organism). Clearly this was to avoid competition based on petty selfishness and unabated personal ambitions, which could, jeopardize the welfare of a society (analogous to endangering the homeostasis and life of an organism because of different tissues competing to perform the same functions).
The caste system also had one more and important aspect and that was punishment at local level. This punishment depended on the nature of “crime” or “sin” and the verdict of the traditional beliefs, conventions and consensus. This particular system included the punishment of outcasting.
Outcasting means; removing out of the community. The person or a family could not live in; and get any facilities from their community. There was total noncooperation. This was a kind of imposition of sanctions.
It is well known in India that the father and mother of the world famous saint of 12th century, saint Dnyaneshwar were outcasted and forced to commit suicide; for their “crime” of going against the then prevalent conventions.
Those who were outcasted were condemned to live as the outcaste. This system of giving “justice” by consensus; apparently did not have any provision for the upward traffic of the outcasted “lower” castes, who actually were not merely the conquered people or slaves. They included the “upper” castes individuals and families, which had to enter into “lower” castes because of what was then considered a “crime”.
However one does not know with certainty whether there were any ways of absolving from those so called “crimes” and promoting to “upper castes”.
Today most of these “crimes” may not be considered as crimes, blunders or even mistakes; because of the individualism, superficiality, pettiness as well as ideas of (right as well as wrong) freedom.
It appears that these castes, which were forced to live outside the villages, were declared untouchable. Due to the same notion of heredity, which consolidated caste system, their progeny was also considered inferior and forced to stay out of the village border, was made to accept dirty jobs and were declared untouchable. This is why; many villages in India used to have and still have; in many regions, the formerly untouchable people staying beyond the boundaries of the villages.
The caste system has been primarily a result of all that has been said above and NOT A CONSPIRACY; though it became unjust and perverted; through the subsequent influence of other factors such as vested interests, misuse of cultural superiority and authority, emotional blackmailing, exploitation of gullibility, religious persecutions, outright sadism, brutality, foreign invasions, forcible conversions, fear of the unknown, fear of the society, etc.
It can be clearly understood from the foregoing that the caste system in India which deteriorated into increasingly unjust and grave perversion; was to start with; NOT A CONSPIRACY; as is made out to be by many misguided individuals.
The theory that it was a conspiracy; can prejudice and mislead; the young and innocent people; and can create division, hatred and strife; amongst different castes. But since it does not go to the root cause; it can not solve the burning problems of the billions. In fact this has been vindicated by the history of many ad hoc measures; such as; reservations and other caste-caste interactions in India in last several decades.
The fact that the caste system did not develop as conspiracy can be clearly evident if following points are considered.
1) Caste system to be the conspiracy has not primarily been a result of political wars or religious wars also. The subsequent influence of such factors; however; can not be entirely denied.
2) Political, dictatorial, oppressive, exploitative reasons appear too simplistic to explain the phenomenon of casteism and untouchability, which has spread all over India and in every nook and corner of even the interior most aspects of country (which were ruled by extremely different rulers with extremely diverse backgrounds).
3) Caste system to be a conspiracy has not been primarily a result of winner-loser relationship. If that had been the case then there would not have been as many restrictions on certain “upper” castes as have been there in India.
4) If there had been winner loser relationship between two groups then one would have found fairly uniform characteristics amongst “upper” and “lower” castes. This is not so. Everyone would agree that there are people with very low capacity in so called “upper” castes and there are people with far greater capacity in so called “lower” castes. In fact almost all types of people are seen in all the castes. This applies not only to capacity but also to morality and social commitment.
5) The skin complexion of the individuals from “upper” castes and “lower” castes is also not uniform. Thus brahmins are not uniformly fair in complexion and the “lower castes” are not uniformly dark in complexion.
6) Caste system was not based on equality. But it was basically and to start with not based on inequality, injustice and exploitation also. It was based on; as is said earlier; the interpretation of homeostasis, heredity and complementarity, and its extrapolation to society, social harmony, social stability, social order and optimal social blossoming in holistic health.
7) In the ancient times; most of the rulers and great scholars were NOT brahmins and the scriptures were the products of consensus and any particular community.
It has to be appreciated that because of this, even as most of the saints did not practice caste discrimination, religious discrimination or any kind of discrimination for that matter, they did not condemn or allege the Indian scriptures with malicious and vicious intentions.
These scriptures (MANU SMRUTI, PARASHAR SMRUTI, VASISHTHA SMRUTI, NARADA SMRUTI, YAJNAVALKYA SMRUTI) were codes of conduct for different age groups, different professionals, different members of the family etc; such as and so on.
This was because they knew that by condemning them, the old wisdom of social homeostasis would be lost and by supporting and practicing it; the exploitative, coercive and inhuman element would be justified and would continue.
For this reason they chose the middle way. The saints did not make any disruptive and provoking statements; because they knew that this was not the solution to the evils of caste system. They knew that the solution to the evils of caste system lied in the opening of the floodgates of enlightenment and empowerment for one and all.
This is why, without making any stunts and gimmicks they spent their lives in trying to open the floodgates of enlightenment and empowerment for one and all.
They suffered during their lifetime because of the harassment from callous, rigid, orthodox and inhuman conservative elements; and centuries after their death; still continue to be misunderstood, misquoted, condemned and ridiculed by many misguided elements.
From the work of the saints it appears that the saints had diagnosed the flaw in the caste system; and hence foreseen and predicted; the end of caste system (without losing the essential concept of social homeostasis) through generalized enlightenment and empowerment; irrespective of caste, religion, region etc, which is of paramount importance and inevitable and indispensable (but neglected) in really annihilating the castes even today.
The major flaw; in the caste system that rendered it extremely exploitative, coercive and inhuman; is the omission or ignorance of i) Human beings are different from tissue cells; by virtue of greater freedom and flexibility ii) mango, coconut, tiger and cat do not have the choice and freedom to transcend their mango-ness, coconut-ness, tiger-ness and cat-ness. In contrast human beings have this potential and hence must get choice and freedom to transcend their caste characteristics, the process which is called enlightenment or self-realization.
The saints seem to have realized that the children are not of the parents (to get exactly the same characteristics or to be blamed for the “sins” of their parents), but they come through the parents.
The saints also seem to have realized that it is a great fallacy to condemn some one as sinful; merely because of being born in a particular caste; and punish him/her for the so called sins/crimes of the past generations or past lives.
The purpose of this article is not to glorify or to condemn anybody, or to describe the detailed history of caste system but only to i) conceptualize the theory of the mergence of caste system based on the understanding physiology and ii) having gone to the root of the caste system and the main determinants of the caste system; take it to its logical end by blossoming everybody; at individual and global levels in every possible way!
This implies that everything coercive in caste system would come to an end and the wisdom of harmony and complementary would continue.
This is because, we must remember that while evolving out of the caste system, and annihilating it; mankind has already begun to be plagued by and suffer from; individualism, pettiness and superficiality.
Those, who attribute all the evils to the caste system in India; must be explained; that; in rest of the world; where there was no caste system like that in India, individualism, pettiness and superficiality are playing havoc and proving to be malignant and fatal!
We must learn from the saints; the importance of opening the floodgates of self realization to people irrespective of caste, creed, race, religion, nations and study, practice and promote; the Total Stress Management (the core of which is NAMASMARAN), which embodies holistic perspective, policies, plans, programs and actions; for individual and global blossoming; through international laws, rules and conventions; in holistic healthcare, holistic productive education, and every field of life!
As and when this begins, everybody would become self reliant, independent, empowered, self sufficient, and enlightened; and the ad-hoc steps such as reservation policy, free education, concessions, free food, subsidies, loan wavers etc; would become redundant and unnecessary. Moreover; majority would begin to realize that in absence of this; even 100 percent reservations in parliaments, assemblies, jobs and everywhere; for that matter; would NOT solve the problems of the suffering billions.
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STRESS AND SUPERTRANSACTIONS
Posted by on Thursday, 16th September 2010
The transactions usually constitute those, which are carried out in unconscious realm, or in response to instinctual urges or emotional frenzy, or in accordance with well thought out and well planned exchanges. Usually these are called fair, when they are mutually agreed upon and unfair when they involve profit of some at the cost of others. The STRESS caused during routine transactions therefore can only be overcome if we try to blossom all our transactions into supertransactions.
Supertransaction means; acquiring a perspective, thinking, motivation; so as to achieve individual and global blossoming; through appropriate policies and plans, programs and actions.
When and if this happens in every walk of life and situation; naturally, spontaneously; urgently and inevitably; just like going through labor pains, giving birth to a baby, feeding a baby, blossoming of flowers, emanation of fragrance, bearing of fruits by the trees, then it is a SUPERTRANSACTION!
Supertransaction is characteristically devoid of any mercenary, commercial or condescending attitude.
In traditional terms; supertransaction means a most virtuous act (PUNYA or SATKARMA); in possible field of life; associated with A-grade happiness for one and all; and inseparable from NAMASMARAN!
WHAT IS NAMASMARAN?
Namasmaran usually embodies; remembering the name of God, Guru, great souls; such as prophets and whatever is considered as holy e.g. planets and stars. It is remembered silently, loudly, along with music, dance, along with breathing, in group or alone. Further, NAMASMARAN is either counted by some means such as fingers, rosary (called SMARANI or JAPAMALA), or electronic counter; or practiced without counting. The traditions vary from region to region and from religion to religion.
However the universal principle underlying
NAMASMARAN is to reorient our physiological and social being; with our true self and establish and strengthen the bond between; our physiological and social being; with our true self; and finally reunification or merger with our true self!
Since individual consciousness is the culmination of every activity in life; and NAMASMARAN the pinnacle of or culmination of individual consciousness; NAMASMARAN is actually opening the final common pathway to objective or cosmic consciousness; so that individual consciousness in every possible activity gets funneled into or unified with Him (our true self)!
Thus NAMASMARAN is in fact the YOGA of YOGA in the sense that it is the culmination of consciousness associated with every possible procedure and technique in the yoga that we are familiar with. It is the
YOGA of YOGA because it is the culmination of consciousness associated with all the activities in the universe, which it encompasses as well! It is YOGA of YOGA because everybody in the world irrespective of his/her tradition and the beliefs; would eventually, ultimately and naturally reach it; in the process of liberation. Even so called non believers also would not “miss” the “benefit of NAMASMARAN as they may remember true self through one symbol or another”!
Just as NAMASMARAN is YOGA of YOGA it is meditation of meditation also! This is because the natural and ultimate climax of every form of meditation; is remembering true self or merging with cosmic consciousness effortlessly!
These facts however have to be realized with persistent practice of NAMSMARAN and not blindly believed or blindly disbelieved with casual approach!
In short NAMSMARAN is super-bounty of cosmic consciousness for every individual to realize it (cosmic consciousness)! This is truly a super-bounty because a person, who experiences it, rises above mercenary, commercial and even professional and charity planes and manifest super- transactions in his or her life!
These are just few observations to give rough idea about what is NAMASMARAN. NAMASMARAN is an ocean of bliss. Its true meaning is beyond description in words and has to b experienced, not by one or few persons sporadically; but most preferably, by billions!
One is said to achieve ANUSANDHAN is a state of ultimate freedom; or being connected with true self; remembered through the name of God as inspired by the Guru (NAMASMARAN); in traditional practice. It is beyond all subjective considerations and pursuits; and has benevolent effect of facilitating ANUSANDHAN; on the entire universe!
The last point is; NAMASMARAN would certainly enlighten, empower and enable some people; out of those billions practicing NAMASMARAN; to evolve, guide and consolidate the global conscience and thereby manifest global unity and harmony and justice, through globally benevolent proper policies!
References:
Namasmaran: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Sahasranetra: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Holistic Medicine: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Stress: Understanding and Management: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Conceptual Stress: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
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STRESS AND POLICE
Posted by on Thursday, 19th August 2010
STRESS
AND
POLICE
DR.
SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
Yesterday and today it has been reported in the electronic media that; in a check up organized by the Jain organization and rotary club in Beed in Maharashtra; over 50 % police were detected to be suffering from diabetes, hypertension and other diseases resulting from stressful working conditions.
We tend to be disturbed by such news and start worrying about. When we start looking for solutions, we come across, the typical solutions offered and hyped; such as the practice of yoga, change in life style, regular check up and so on.
But is this honest? Is this true? Is this fair?
If we are not involved in the mercenary games of marketing, selling and encashing hathayoga techniques voraciously; or we are not immersed in exploiting others through the exotic, individualistic, selfish and tempting ways of stress management; or if are not naïve/dishonest; then we would never superstitiously believe that; individualistic and selfish hathayoga and stress management techniques are panacea and can replace holistic perspective, holistic policy making, holistic planning, holistic administration and actual holistically working towards holistic health.
If we are honest to ourselves; then we would appreciate that; inner blossoming is possible only if it goes hand in hand with suitable or conducive social transformation. Conversely, the accurate direction of conducive social transformation; is possible only if we are simultaneously blossoming from within.
To put it differently; we have to give holistic dimension (of individual and global blossoming); to the techniques of yoga or stress management on the one hand; and quality of being conducive to the inner blossoming; to the process and steps of social transformation.
If we are against NAMASMARAN, unaware of NAMASMARAN; or idle and indolent practitioners of NAMASMARAN; then that we must wake up most urgently; to realize; that this is possible through the universal practice of NAMASMARAN.
NAMASMARAN can enhance and catalyze; the actual evolution of universally beneficial perspective, laws, policies, administration and functioning through the inner blossoming and the public understanding, appreciation of all these; and global mobilization in their support and implementation!
We are bound to suffer from unbearably malignant, global and inescapable stress and its ill effects; whether we are police or otherwise; in absence of enlightened wisdom of the leaders on the one hand; and absence of our own growth so as to recognize, appreciate, respect and follow such enlightened wisdom (possible only if we wake up to the omnipotence of NAMASMARAN) on the other!
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