STRESS

MEDITATION,
YOGA AND NAMASMARAN

DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
Can we feel relaxed simply by meditation even as we are
in the STRESS of paying about 30 percent income tax
(apart from sales tax, property tax etc.) without
knowing how it is spent?

Can we feel relaxed by sheer practice of meditation;

even as we have to undergo STRESS of taking such
decisions under some pressure and against your
conscience?

Can we feel relaxed just by meditation; even while

taking the suffering of STRESS from all such decisions;
lying down?

Can we conquer the STRESS of commuting irrespective

of the crowding and other traveling menaces; merely by
meditation?

Can we conquer the STRESS of lack of housing, water,

electricity, education, medical care etc. by meditation
alone?

It is true that various practices of meditation and yoga,

are “marketed and sold” or “bought” by many of us so
as to conquer STRESS. In contrast; NAMASMARAN is
not directly sold and can not be sold.

It is true that the fashion, fancy or whim of meditation

and yoga, which can be “marketed and sold”; has
greater potential to cheat and get cheated financially.
Whereas; NAMASMARAN is free and hence there is no
scope for financial cheating or getting cheated; directly.

(Many self styled gurus and cults organized around

them; can sell the “specialization of giving or advising
name of God”; though NAMASMARAN as such is not
directly marketed or sold)

But the question in common is; “Can the practice of

MEDITATION, YOGA and/or NAMASMARAN “help”
the leaders, policy makers, decision makers, planners,
administrators and the sufferers amongst us; to evolve
and transform the scenario, and if yes; when?” Or is the
philosophy and practice of MEDITATION, YOGA or
NAMASMARAN a mere “running after the mirage of
STRESS MANAGEMENT”?

Are these questions erratic, irrelevant or heretic? Is it

arrogant to think; that it is “self inflicted spiritual
castration; to neglect every evil in self and the society
and keep practicing MEDITATION, YOGA or
NAMASMARAN; without any reference to the
objective material conditions”?

The answer provided is that; all religious precepts,

spiritual endeavors, spiritual disciplines, festivals,
celebrations and a variety of rituals including
MEDITATION, YOGA and NAMASMARAN; are
basically meant for evolving objective or holistic
perspective and working in accordance with it.

If we take the analogy of the body functions, then the

MEDITATION, YOGA and NAMASMARAN;
constitute the biochemical, biophysical and bioelectrical
activities in brain; and holistic international perspective,
policy making, programs and implementation at ground
level; constitute intellectual, emotional, instinctual and
physical manifestations.

MEDITATION, YOGA and NAMASMARAN never

were, never are and never would be sterile in terms of
individual and global blossoming. Whether marketed,
sold or freely distributed, if cut off from the ground
realities and the holistic solutions (Total Stress
Management or superliving), then they are merely the
caricatures of “MEDITATION, YOGA and
NAMASMARAN”!