I can increase the inner strength (and satisfaction); only by conquering (through holistic perspective, policies, plans, programs and their implementation); all the STRESSORS simultaneously! This is Total Stress Management or superliving (the core of which is NAMASMARAN) and is like oxygen. Can I be cynical and escapist about breathing oxygen?

1. STRESS
AND
CAREER
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. All the careers; involving the political, economic and other
powers; or the literary merits, artistic excellence, professional
expertise, technical skills and intellectual competence; all have
to subserve the basic theme of progress viz. simultaneous
blossoming of an individual and the universe.
In absence of this; the “so called excellence” in different fields;
would nurture and promote indiscriminate and rabid
competition, conflicts and violence, which is what is happening
today.
When we are children we often cherish dreams of being
somebody great in terms of being wealthy, powerful,
glamorous, popular, and respectable and so on, based on our
concepts of progress.
Actually our concepts are distorted and perverted in the
whirlwind of superficiality, glamour and glitter! This has
leaded us to virulent, infectious and suicidal pursuit of
lucrative careers.
This pursuit in turn; has resulted into rabid competitions
embodying; such violent conflicts such as; pro reservation vs.
anti reservation, pro privatization vs. anti privatization, pro
donations vs. anti donations, legal procedures vs. illegal tactics,
fair means vs. unfair means; and even pro corruption vs. anti
corruption; for grabbing careers, which give “license to amass

3. wealth and power irrespective of the welfare of others and
often at the cost of others”.
The basic fault lies in not realizing the fact that the progress
actually means simultaneous blossoming of an individual and
the society.
If we; the policy makers, educationists, teachers, parents, go
closer to our heart and our conscience; then we would work for
holistic education. If we are children; and go closer to our
heart and our conscience; then we would be able to choose and
work in a correct field to the best of our satisfaction.
The way to go to our innate core; i.e. our selves; or our heart;
or our conscience; is NAMASMARAN.
Let us take this opportunity to practice NAMASMARAN as a
matter of topmost priority; and learn to reach our own
conscience at the earliest and achieve the goal of blossoming of
individual and the universe. This is also referred to as
AATMNAO MOKSHAARTHAM
JAGAT HITAAYA CHA