But enlightenment and empowerment of the Total Stress Management (the core of which is NAMASMARAN); are not confined to mere socioeconomic progress of the world. They go far beyond. They become truly sublime. They transcend space and time to go on invigorating and blossoming billions after billions for millennia.

1. MAYA
SIDDHI
STRESS
AND
TECHNOLOGY
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Technology has made many things, thought to be
impossible in the past; easily possible!
In common language these technological feats
could be conceived and appreciated as
extraordinary achievements. In spiritual tradition
such achievements (though through different means
and ways) are called SIDDHIS.
ADWAITA philosophy refers to the internal and
external universe as MAYA or MITHYA, to
indicate and convey its changing, fleeting and
hence deceptive nature. I conceive MAYA as
relative reality as distinguished from absolute.
Technology validates this perspective in many
ways.
It is through technology (modern siddhis) that we
realize that what we see in the immediate vicinity
with naked eyes is only apparent and the ‘reality’

3. of electromagnetic radiations and microbes is not
apparent.
The transmission of news on the news channels of
electronic media; validates with great impact, that
every situation, every person, every success or
failure and every moment, are ephemeral, transient
and fleeting!
The internet highlights the fact not appreciable to
otherwise intelligent mind; that millions of people
are reading and thinking about what is uploaded
and millions of people are engaged in different
activities beneficial or harmful to mankind.
It is however necessary to appreciate; that whatever
is apparent through technology is also fleeting and
superficial. In other words, it is also; relative reality
and not absolute!

4. In fact, my hypothesis is; technology of electronic
media can create illusions, delusions, hallucinatory
effects; leading to pleasant and unpleasant feelings
and elation and depression and also schizoid
behavior and multiple personality disorder like;
changes in the personality. This is due to the larger
than life presentation of movies, serials, reality
shows, and advertisements!
The technological feats (siddhis) thus can unveil
the maya on the one hand and create far more
illusory, deceptive and destructive “replications of
MAYA” on the other!
What is absolute?
We find ultimate culmination of our life in the
absolute or cosmic consciousness. It is in this
cosmic consciousness that we experience the
ultimate of bliss, peace, and harmony; and the way
to this “absolute” is NAMASMRAN! We should

5. not believe, disbelieve, accept or discard this;
blindly; but verify this conviction; on the basis of
extensive study, discussion, contemplation and
most importantly, the practice!