1. GHOSTS
AND
NAMASMARAN
DR.
SHRINIWAS
JANARDAN
KASHALIKAR

2. The words such as ghosts, spirits (and synonyms
such as bhoot, pishaccha, hadal, devachar,
sammandha, mrutatma, pretatma; in Indian
languages) indicate inexplicable, intangible
phenomena; often written off as “psychological”;
while hardly knowing mind!!
When a common man thinks of various problems
unexplainable on physical, chemical or any other
basis, he or she tends to attribute the problems to
the entities mentioned above.
The modern medical experts, who laugh/ridicule at
these terms, must introspect and admit to
themselves that they do not know anything about
physiological location, extent, dimensions and
chemical/physical characteristics of mind, to which
they attribute all these phenomena.

3. Let us not take pride on our semantics! Let us not
fight over the semantics. Let us not hide our
ignorance and boost our self destructive arrogance
with the crutches of so called modern or traditional
terms; such as idiopathic, schizophrenia, hysteria
and ghosts, spirits etc. respectively!
Let us understand that whether we conceive the
inexplicable phenomena in terms of modern terms
or traditional terms, what matters is, whether we
can conquer them, and if so how!
Just as we can not define and demonstrate ghost, so
also, we can not define and demonstrate
subconscious, unconscious and other phenomena
attributed to and described in relation to mind in
psychology and psychiatry. They are only ideas,
experienced or agreed upon by some.
In my experience, self empowerment is the most
important and common answer irrespective of
semantics.

4. According to me, various problems including mental
problems begin to get minimized and milder, in the
process of practice of NAMASMARAN; in
accordance with one’s tradition. The various means
and techniques for empowerment and
enlightenment such as medicaments, yogasana,
pranayama, and various other remedies can work as
adjuvant measures. But they require suitability of
certain physical circumstances, and these suitable
circumstances also keep getting evolved around the
transtemporal cosmic consciousness (which we
merge with through NAMASMARAN).
It is said that, NAMASMARAN enables us to
conquer (and even emancipate) ghosts; categorized
as unexplainable or partially explainable
psychosomatic and other individual and social
problems. NAMASMARAN is the hallmark and also
the core of individual and cosmic blossoming!
As and when the majority would begin to practice
NAMAMSRAN the disputes created by and based

5. on semantics would begin to get dissolved because of
the commonality of the sublime experience!
One can verify this, but not merely for oneself, but
by sharing this conviction with maximum people.