The document discusses the importance of addressing socioeconomic factors in stress management and mental illness. It states that political and spiritual leaders will fail if they do not participate in addressing issues like poverty, unemployment, and competition that impact people's mental health. The document criticizes governments that promote alcohol production, saying it will lead to mass suicide and exponentially increase suffering for generations. It argues the goal for all policies should be NAMASMARAN, which is reorienting people to their cosmic consciousness.

1. CONQUER
STRESS
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. The news on TV showing;
significant increase in mental
illness due to poverty,
unemployment and cut throat
competition should be an eye
opener for the medicos all over the
world. My books on stress
management written about15 to 35
years ago and even my speech
during my internship in Miraj had
emphasized the socioeconomic
causes of illness and mental illness.
My views were either ridiculed,
humiliated for such “far fetched”
thinking or were deliberately and
permanently neglected and
suppressed. At best; they were
appreciated with lip sympathy and
otherwise ice-cold response.

3. The corollary of this news is that
you can never do proper stress
management without participating
in the socioeconomic, political and
other issues in the surroundings.
You may or may not join a political
party or an organization. But you
have to assert your opinions firmly
and act whenever and however
possible and feasible.
The spiritual leaders are bound to
fail miserably if they do not do this.
Conversely, the political leaders
who are equally blind to this
relationship between the
surroundings and an individual;
are bound to be miserable in their
ad hoc, petty and/or callous politics.

4. The recent issue is that alcohol
production.
The Maharashtra government (and
probably many governments in the
world) is adopting alcohol
promotion policies which ensure
mass suicide or even worse than
suicide! We all; witnessing these
steps of government passively;
would right from now onwards
suffer miserably and exponentially
due to being party to the sin of
passing on this legacy to the
posterity. Generations after
generations would continue to
suffer worst than mere one time
death; due to such policy.

5. NAMASMARAN i.e. reorientation
to one’s link with cosmic
consciousness has to be the goal, the
purpose, the core and the basis of
every policy including the one of
firm rejection of any proposal to
promote alcohol production.
Just as promotion of alcohol is
bound to be self destructive, mere
opposition to alcohol without
channelizing the vitality of
individuals to their cosmic self
through NAMASMARAN; can lead
to severe socio-psychiatric and
socio-pathological evils!