There are differing views on whether the world is beautiful or hellish, and whether the past was better or worse. People respond to these views based on their own perceptions in seemingly inevitable ways, leading to conflict and violence. The practice of NAMASMARAN allows one to change themselves so they see the world more realistically and act in a less compulsive, more mutually satisfying manner. This conscious evolution reduces the burden of needing to change oneself or the world.

1. CHANGING
WORLD
OR
YOURSELF?
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Some say the world is beautiful.
Some say it is a hell.
Some say the past was better. Some
say the past was worse.
Some people seem to live almost
mechanically and face it as it comes.
Some insist vehemently on changing
it.
If you carefully observe, then you
would find that everyone is
responding to one’s own perceptions.

3. Not only that, everyone is responding
almost inevitably as if there was no
other alternative!
This phenomenon of multiple
responses with multiple ideas and
views about “change” has lead to a
kind of apparent cacophony and
chaos with indiscriminate violence in
various forms.
The practice of NAMASMARAN
leads to a change in yourself in such a
way that you get freed from your own
compulsions. Simultaneously you

4. start seeing the world differently and
more realistically. Your actions in
field and in every transaction become
less compulsive and less inevitable.
They become more connected with
the innate source of light. They
become mutually satisfying. They
become satisfying to yourself and
others. They become less arbitrary
and less imposing. They become
more comforting to yourself and
others. This may be called conscious
evolution or the evolution of which
you become pleasantly conscious.

5. The question and burden of changing
yourself and the world gradually
disappears in a meaningful and
fulfilling fashion.
You may not believe but verify this!
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR