1. WAKING
BEFORE
SLEEPING
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. It is true that we wake up after sleep.
But here, the word waking is used to mean rising from
the slumber of superficiality and pettiness and the word
sleeping is used to mean permanent sleep or death. We
do not realize how valuable is this chance to rise from
this permanent, unpredictable and irreversible sleep!
Our education, health care, political and legal systems
are oblivious to this rising and awakening because they
are the products of people (with few exceptions) who
themselves are in delirious slumber! The print and
electronic media, entertainment, advertising and such
businesses are trapped in mercenary interests and are
helpless themselves to salvage themselves and others.
Hence no one can help us in waking up from our
delirious slumber before we submerge in the permanent,
unpredictable and irreversible sleep and orient our life
towards self realization.
However; still we are blessed with the opportunity to
wake up from our delirious slumber and experience the
process of self realization and simultaneous blossoming
of one and all; if we understand that our mind; but in the

3. process of being involved in bodily welfare and
maintenance; forgets the very purpose of such
involvement! If we introspect ask ourselves; “If we are
provided with ripe alfanso (hapoos) mango, should we
care to taste it or worry about its getting deteriorated? If
we are provided with jasmine flowers, should we smell
and relish them or worry about their drying out? If we
are provided with our beautiful body for self realization,
should we start experiencing the process of self
realization or get worried and anxious about when and
how it is going to crumble and collapse?”
Practice of NAMASMARAN is a golden opportunity;
irrespective of our religion, race, age, sex, occupation,
nationality etc; for self realization and winning the race
with the time “wake up” before it takes us to the
unpredictable, permanent and irreversible sleep!
Let us assert the golden opportunity to use our body,
consciousness and everything; to experience the greatest
ever phenomenon of being one with the immortal,
omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent i.e. “waking up
before we sleep”; through NAMASMARAN; right from
now; without worrying about deterioration,
decomposition and destruction of our bodies!