The CONQUEST OF STRESS; resulting in value crisis; would be increasingly successful; through NAMASMARAN coupled with actual and global implementation of holistic medicine, holistic education, holistic agriculture, and holistic laws and so on, which may be called Total Stress Management; to keep on continuously developing an environment to catalyze SELF REALIZATION and GLOBAL BLOSSOMING.

1. STRESS
AND
VALUE CRISIS
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. STRESS and value crisis are interwoven intricately. Which is
the cause and which is the result; is difficult to say! Many of us
are not even aware of what is value crisis.
Value crisis means being misguided with respect to our aims,
objectives and purpose of life. Value crisis means conflicts and
confusion with respect to our missions and ambitions in life.
Value crisis means misconceptions about what we like, love,
respect, adore and dedicate to. Value crisis means inability to
deicide and implement our innate choices. Value crisis means
difficulty in internal evaluation and prioritization. Value crisis
is uncertainty; in giving more or less importance to our likes,
dislikes, principles, relations and living accordingly.
Various influences from our body, mind, media and peers
create the overall value system/crisis; and in accordance; we
want to be some one different; than our best choice. In the
process we remain unhappy and unsatisfied even amidst a
reasonable well to do condition, because; neither do we
accomplish our dreams nor do we succeed in the pursuits we get
trapped into!
How has this value crisis developed in India and the world?
Once upon a time the question “How are you?” and the answer
to this question; implied; how keenly and completely we
adhere to our religious duties leading to “connection with
God”. Our success and failure and our pleasures and pains

3. also; depended this; irrespective of glamour and glitter, (which
were loathed as garbage if possessed at the cost of religious
duties). The precepts in various religions and ethics were
formulated so as to develop connection with God as per one’s
age, capacity, relationship in family, season, circumstances etc.
However; these days; every time we ask this question, or we
have to answer this question; we think of our physical
condition, climate, salary, salary of children etc. and NEVER
about “connection with God”.
Naturally if we have amassed wealth; we are proud and
arrogant and if we haven’t; then we are meek and submissive.
Similarly if we are robust and physically sturdy, then we feel
“on top of the world” and if we are ailing physically; we feel
miserable.
Some one can argue; “we do not see and understand the
connection of God”! So; we ask and answer what is
perceptible! (In other words; we have dumped the profound
ancient (and of all times) wisdom and have chosen to remain
immersed in superficiality and pettiness.
We dumped the ancient wisdom of “connection with God” and
started worshipping and boosting the hysterical craze for petty
success at the cost of “connection with God”; as well as the
violent reactions to such craze, leading to ubiquitous stress! It
can be conquered by universal practice of NAMASMARAN,

4. japa, jaap, jikra etc and globally benevolent wisdom born
through it!
This value crisis has emerged and spread; like a wild fire;
because of we being disconnected from our true selves and
oblivious to the assertion of our true selves; i.e. our DHARMA.
The maximum, respect or following for DHARMA and
SHASTRA; was a cherished value in the past. It has become
feeble and almost ineffective today.
Being disconnected from our true selves has leaded us to
become our own caricatures. As a result we have been
deprived of the sap of vitality and become listlessness,
emaciated, individualistic, petty, and superficial. Our
perspective and thinking have become sectarian, mean, fanatic
and fragmented. This is the beginning of value crisis.
Thus; we are increasingly overtaken by the value of unabated
unleashing of individualism (free from any sort of self
knowledge and conscience) and are overwhelmed by the
craving to fulfill our individual whims and fancies, making
quick money, fame and popularity and all kinds of power and
sway on people; even at the cost of others! This is the progress
of value crisis and further crumbles our perspective, policies,
programs, plans and their implementation at individual and
global levels; and produces STRESS in walk of life!

5. The media is also immersed and intoxicated by individualism
and hence keeps on creating; the tempting hype of hollow
glamour and petty successes in individualistic pursuits; besides
attributing glorified martyrdom to petty failures (as in case of
the novel and movie/s Devdas)!
Since the media hype largely decides the celebrity status and
we (who have become our own caricatures) follow the
celebrities in different fields; our pettiness and hence value
crisis is further reinforced.
Trapped in this way; in value crisis; we all vote; and form
assemblies and parliaments, which decide the contents and
drafting of the laws; which protect and promote the vested
interests of few at cost of billions; and do not provide any
justice in turn exacerbate our value crisis and STRESS!
As a result, we either become “successful” in our
individualistic and antihuman pursuits; or we become
“failure” and turn towards crimes and suicidal activities. The
remaining amongst us; lead the life of compromises.
In any case; we are STESSED; because; individualism; the
root of value crisis; NEVER gives the fulfillment and
satisfaction to anybody. In fact; it has caught us in a state of
suffocation and STRESS, through which we are unable to find
a way out.

6. The return to the old value of respecting DHARMA and
SHASTRA appear to be very difficult, because DHARMA and
SHASTRA of any particular religion are not likely to be
accepted by or even beneficial to the whole world.
The solution in this STRESS of value crisis is evolving
individualism into SELF REALIZATION and democracies
into GLOBAL BLOSSOMING. One of the simplest ways for
this; is; the practice of NAMASMARAN (which is the core of
Total Stress Management); which “reconnects us with our
powerhouse” or “waters our roots”!
In absence of NAMASMARAN, formal teaching or
propagating of some arbitrary code of conduct (under guise of
value system) becomes a) alien, unsuitable or repulsive to;
different people in different parts of the world; belonging to
different cultures, religions and socioeconomic conditions. It is
almost impossible to arrive at democratically; to a universally
acceptable code of conduct. Such efforts in formal education
or in the propaganda; become pitiable and utterly ineffective
in serving the purpose of rectifying the value crisis and the
STRESS produced by it.
The CONQUEST OF STRESS; resulting in value crisis; would
be increasingly successful; through NAMASMARAN coupled
with actual and global implementation of holistic medicine,
holistic education, holistic agriculture, and holistic laws and so
on, which may be called Total Stress Management; to keep on

7. continuously developing an environment to catalyze SELF
REALIZATION and GLOBAL BLOSSOMING.
It is then; when the working conditions, monetary returns and
public appraisal and accolades; required for smooth progress
to SELF REALIZATION and GLOBAL BLOSSOMING are
available for all of us in different jobs or professions; that the
philosophical notion; “every work has its own dignity and
glamour” would be actually vindicated.
It is then that we all can live to the best of our satisfaction; and
CONQUER STRESS of value crisis; by going to the root of our
job and churning out the results beneficial to ourselves and the
mankind and thereby keep facilitating the wellness cycle of
Total Stress Management.