NAMA is a word used to indicate true self; inseparable from the unifying universal self. Hence forgetting our self or being oblivious to our self can be referred to as NAMAVISMARAN [NAMA (self); VISMARAN (forgetting)]. As we “forget” our true self (NAMAVISMARAN), i.e. undergo a “descent” into our caricatures, we begin to live as our caricatures. We then get segregated into races, philosophies, ideologies, religions, cultures, nations, regions, families and individuals! Latter we descend further by the downward momentum of individualization and into pettier and meaner life!

1. IMPERIALISM
AND
NAMASMARAN
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Imperialism is born out of the instincts of racial,
religious, ideological, cultural, economic and political
supremacy on the one hand and helpless submission
to them on the other. These are natural and
understandable; but at the same time; undoubtedly
retrogressive, exploitative, oppressive, coercive,
brutal and destructive and/or suicidal.
The racial, ideological, cultural, economic and
political aggressions, invasions, expansions are either
deceptive, illusive, disguised, surreptious, concealed,
covert; or blatantly barbaric and coercive or both
and have been taking place in many parts of the
world, for millennia. These have been usually
associated with corrupt distortion of historical facts
of philosophy, religions, ideologies, sociology, politics
and even art and literature and science and gullible
submission to; and admission of; them.
If we introspect and try to understand and
appreciate our own deepest aspirations, then we
would realize that the basic desire of ownership, and
possessions when multiplies cancerously; it

3. culminates into all types of imperialism and
expansionism.
Through NAMASMARAN, the desires of ownership,
possessions and “control” are consumed into our
inner growth enabling us to unite internally with the
core of the whole universe and appreciate, admire
and enjoy everything; without craving for ownership.
When the craze for ownership declines through
NAMASMARAN; the rabid competition and the
indiscriminate violence for petty ownership and
possession also dwindles and the era of unity,
cordiality and mutually fulfilling individual and
global blossoming dawns.
When billions of people begin to get immersed in
NAMASMARAN and share the ambrosia with
billions others; the corrupt distortion of historical
facts begins to get reversed. All the ideologies,
philosophies, religions, literature, art, science and
law; begin to get revitalized, rejuvenated, remodeled
and holisticized so as to become globally blossoming.