Being nishkama, or without desires, seems painful because people believe desires and their fulfillment are essential to life. However, remembering God's name (Namasmarn) is automatically associated with appreciating the universal and eternal benevolence of God. This appreciation is so powerful that it dissolves desires and expectations, resulting in a state of supreme richness of being without desires called vairgya shrimanti. The key to individual and universal blossoming is Namasmarn.

1. BEING
NISHKAMA
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Being NISHKAMA appears to be painful, as we are usually
under the impression that presence of KAMA and
fulfillment of KAMA are the integral to life and life
without KAMA and fulfillment of KAMA is actually vanity.
Knowingly or unknowingly we are repeatedly dragged in
painful pessimism because of the triviality of our
individuality and its utterly unnoticeable achievements in
personal or social life; from the state of excitement and
arrogance in our petty success! Strangely, neither we are
freed from the desires nor are we satisfied by the
fulfillment of the desires!
However; in the course of time; NAMASMARANi.e.
remembering NAMA is automatically associated with the
fulfilling appreciation of the universal, eternal and
victorious benevolence of NAMA! This fulfilling
appreciation is so powerful that our desires and
expectations i.e. KAMA, which are usually associated
with our trivial activities, literally get dissolved in it! This
is called VAIRAGYA SHRIMANTI or VAIRAGYA VAIBHAV,
which means supreme richness of being NISHKAMA or
being completely selflessness! This is why, the key to
individual and universal blossoming, is NAMASMARAN!