Hence this is the most opportune time to practice, teach, preach, sponsor and do whatever we can; to promote NAMASMARAN and consolidation, and implementation of holistic perspective, policies, plans and programs; so that the governance of pettiness, superficiality, individualism, selfishness and all kind of deception including the black money and “darkest money”; be destroyed!
This document discusses how stress can be overcome through holistic and spiritual approaches rather than superficial short-term solutions. It provides examples of issues like health problems, unemployment, farmer suicides, and more that are typically addressed through fragmented methods instead of addressing the root causes. The document argues that stress can be managed by developing a holistic perspective through practices like spiritual remembrance, which allow one to make choices that blossom individuals and society rather than further problems.
This document discusses how stress can be overcome through holistic and spiritual approaches rather than superficial solutions. It provides examples of issues like health problems, unemployment, price rises, etc. and argues the typical solutions focus on fragmented aspects rather than root causes. Holistic solutions proposed include spiritual practices like namasmarn, education empowering people, and policies prioritizing community welfare over luxury demands. The key message is that stress can be managed by developing a holistic worldview and making choices that foster individual and global blossoming.
This document discusses how taking a holistic approach through spiritual practices like namasmarn can help overcome stress more effectively than superficial or fragmented solutions. It provides examples of issues like health problems, education, unemployment, and more that typically receive band-aid solutions instead of addressing root causes. A holistic approach focusing on individual and global well-being through spiritual empowerment could help manifest more positive options and alleviate stress on all levels.
This document discusses stress and holistic solutions. It argues that current approaches to problems like healthcare, education, unemployment, and more are superficial and do not address root causes. True solutions require developing holistic, cooperative approaches that benefit all of society rather than just a few. Some examples of better solutions given include focusing on public transport instead of private vehicles to reduce traffic, and promoting traditional agriculture to help farmers. The overall message is that stress can be reduced by opening our minds to holistic, cooperative ways of addressing issues.
Tragedy Of The Commons And Other Ethics Topicshawaiiscott
This document discusses key concepts in ethical tourism including common pool resources, governance, accreditation, best practices, and the precautionary principle. It provides examples of the "tragedy of the commons" using a scenario about farmers sharing a common pasture. It also discusses solutions like regulation and cooperation to avoid overexploiting common resources. Overall the document stresses the importance of sustainability and using tools like the precautionary principle to guide responsible tourism development.
The Next Chapter in Cross Sector Leadership (TEDx)Jean-Paul Mouton
Keynote address at TEDxCurtinUSarawak.
TEDxCurtinUSarawak is an organisation that seeks to provide opportunities for the students at Curtin University, as well as residents of Miri to share ideas surrounding the theme “The Next Chapter”.
My keynote surrounds the idea of Cross-Sector Leadership and how our current education system fails to equip our future leaders to tackle the immense problems we’ve left them.
The document discusses the urgent need for global action on sustainability issues to prevent environmental destruction from negatively impacting humanity. It argues that traditional models of business and development have failed to address problems like poverty, disease, and climate change. However, the emergence of social-eco entrepreneurship offers hope by taking an approach measured by positive social impact rather than just profit. Widespread adoption of this model is key to building a sustainable future for generations to come.
This document discusses how stress can be overcome through holistic and spiritual approaches rather than superficial short-term solutions. It provides examples of issues like health problems, unemployment, farmer suicides, and more that are typically addressed through fragmented methods instead of addressing the root causes. The document argues that stress can be managed by developing a holistic perspective through practices like spiritual remembrance, which allow one to make choices that blossom individuals and society rather than further problems.
This document discusses how stress can be overcome through holistic and spiritual approaches rather than superficial solutions. It provides examples of issues like health problems, unemployment, price rises, etc. and argues the typical solutions focus on fragmented aspects rather than root causes. Holistic solutions proposed include spiritual practices like namasmarn, education empowering people, and policies prioritizing community welfare over luxury demands. The key message is that stress can be managed by developing a holistic worldview and making choices that foster individual and global blossoming.
This document discusses how taking a holistic approach through spiritual practices like namasmarn can help overcome stress more effectively than superficial or fragmented solutions. It provides examples of issues like health problems, education, unemployment, and more that typically receive band-aid solutions instead of addressing root causes. A holistic approach focusing on individual and global well-being through spiritual empowerment could help manifest more positive options and alleviate stress on all levels.
This document discusses stress and holistic solutions. It argues that current approaches to problems like healthcare, education, unemployment, and more are superficial and do not address root causes. True solutions require developing holistic, cooperative approaches that benefit all of society rather than just a few. Some examples of better solutions given include focusing on public transport instead of private vehicles to reduce traffic, and promoting traditional agriculture to help farmers. The overall message is that stress can be reduced by opening our minds to holistic, cooperative ways of addressing issues.
Tragedy Of The Commons And Other Ethics Topicshawaiiscott
This document discusses key concepts in ethical tourism including common pool resources, governance, accreditation, best practices, and the precautionary principle. It provides examples of the "tragedy of the commons" using a scenario about farmers sharing a common pasture. It also discusses solutions like regulation and cooperation to avoid overexploiting common resources. Overall the document stresses the importance of sustainability and using tools like the precautionary principle to guide responsible tourism development.
The Next Chapter in Cross Sector Leadership (TEDx)Jean-Paul Mouton
Keynote address at TEDxCurtinUSarawak.
TEDxCurtinUSarawak is an organisation that seeks to provide opportunities for the students at Curtin University, as well as residents of Miri to share ideas surrounding the theme “The Next Chapter”.
My keynote surrounds the idea of Cross-Sector Leadership and how our current education system fails to equip our future leaders to tackle the immense problems we’ve left them.
The document discusses the urgent need for global action on sustainability issues to prevent environmental destruction from negatively impacting humanity. It argues that traditional models of business and development have failed to address problems like poverty, disease, and climate change. However, the emergence of social-eco entrepreneurship offers hope by taking an approach measured by positive social impact rather than just profit. Widespread adoption of this model is key to building a sustainable future for generations to come.
This document outlines principles for Earth Charter Cities. It begins by noting that cities are major engines of the global economy but can also have negative environmental and social impacts if not managed sustainably. It then presents 16 principles for Earth Charter Cities to guide them towards sustainability, including recognizing interdependence with nature, caring for all life, protecting human rights and the environment, ensuring democratic participation, and managing resources carefully. The goals are for cities to flourish culturally and economically while protecting the planet for future generations.
Small, individual actions like recycling and reducing personal consumption have little political impact and do not create meaningful social change. While making personal lifestyle changes can raise awareness and reduce individual harms, the root causes of issues like climate change lie in large-scale corporate and industrial activities, not individual behaviors. True political change comes from organizing collective resistance through tactics like protests, boycotts, and lobbying that challenge existing power structures, not from individual consumption choices.
This document discusses trends in the food service industry towards sustainability. It notes that customers increasingly want restaurants to reduce waste and use sustainable and ethical practices. Many consumers are seeking out local, organic, and fair trade options due to health and environmental concerns. Restaurants are responding by offering more plant-based, sustainable seafood, and local menu options. Going green has become necessary for the food industry due to these shifting customer demands and expectations.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build financially sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on promoting women entrepreneurs, climate resilience solutions, and measuring social impact.
The document provides information about the Hult Prize regional final competition being held in London on March 11-12, 2016. It includes welcome messages from the competition organizers, an overview of the Hult Prize competition goals and format, schedules and locations for the regional final events, profiles of the judges, and a call for participants to help promote the competition through social media. The regional final will feature student team presentations pitching social enterprise ideas to address issues faced by those living in crowded, impoverished urban areas, with the winning team advancing to the global finals to compete for $1 million in seed funding.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on empowering women entrepreneurs, promoting climate resilience, and helping social enterprises effectively measure their social impact.
This document provides an agenda for the World Design Forum 2012 conference on social innovation. The conference will explore how social innovation can create local, living economies from the ground up. It is organized around three themes: co-creation, social learning, and ignition. Co-creation will discuss enabling grassroots participation and shared values. Social learning will focus on skills sharing and assessment. Ignition will examine managing organic urban development and propagating successful models. The agenda includes case studies, keynotes, and a roundtable discussion on the role of design in addressing these challenges.
The document discusses how mismanaged stress can negatively impact romantic relationships and overall well-being. It states that practicing total stress management, including through namasmarn (remembrance of the divine name), can help reduce stress, make people more understanding and open, and allow them to better enjoy life's pleasures, including romance, from a young age throughout their lives. Total stress management trains people to thoughtfully choose how they approach different subjects and ideologies rather than feel compelled by external pressures.
Dr. Kashalikar discusses how education and culture can promote superficial values that create stress. Our idols and ideals are shaped by many factors beyond just appearances, such as our moods, constitutions, and life experiences. While idols may seem to vary in their qualities and backgrounds, they all exemplified living "larger than life" by bettering society or transcending human limits in their fields. True ideals are living according to principles of truth, expanding perspective, and reducing stress through reflection and spiritual practices like remembrance of God.
The document discusses stress and how yoga can help integrate the left and right brains to reduce stress. It states that when the normal stimulus-response sequence is disturbed in quality or quantity, it causes stress. Yoga is defined as the integration of the different hierarchical components of the brain and various physiological and mental activities. Practicing yoga, particularly namasmarnan which is the remembrance of God, ensures the process of being connected to an absolute cosmic consciousness and can help alleviate stress caused by imbalances and lack of integration between the left and right brains.
This document discusses how stress and corruption are ubiquitous and complex concepts. It argues that corruption stems from a corrupted perspective, which then leads to corrupt thinking, emotions, and actions. Specifically, it states that a narrow, sectarian perspective gives rise to discriminatory laws and systems that prioritize certain groups over others without concern for overall welfare. Total stress management, especially through namasmāran or remembrance of the divine, is presented as the key to addressing corruption by healing one's perspective and breaking restrictive thought patterns.
The document discusses the concept of "cerebral orgasm", which is described differently in various spiritual traditions like yoga and bhakti. While the need for sexual orgasm is commonly felt, the need for cerebral orgasm is not as concretely understood. Cerebral orgasm results in temporarily forgetting external influences or "Maya", similar to how one forgets everything during a sexual orgasm. Cerebral orgasm is described as being more intense and durable than sexual orgasm, and helps reduce stress for millions without their awareness through its freeing and blossoming influence. The document suggests verifying whether total stress management practices like holistic perspectives and universal remembrance of God can culminate in cerebral orgasm and freedom from
Spiritualism materialism and namasmaran dr. shriniwas j. kashalikarshriniwas kashalikar
1. The document discusses spiritualism versus materialism and how places of worship have become focused on trivial material gains rather than spiritual enlightenment.
2. It suggests that the split between spiritualism and materialism has led to an imbalance, with overemphasis on materialism and hollow spiritualism.
3. The solution proposed is "namasmaran," or remembrance of the divine name, which can empower people to explore dharma and reestablish harmony within themselves and society.
Excessive use of electronic devices like TVs, phones, and computers can cause stress and potentially lead to mental health issues like borderline schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder. While technology has benefits, a lack of stress management allows unchecked growth in device production, marketing, and use, subjecting people to various forms of stress. Studying and practicing total stress management techniques like mindfulness can help address this stress and allow for individual and global well-being.
HEALTH GEETA AND NAMASMARAN
The divisions such as spiritual, material, theist, atheist, superstitious, rationalist etc would begin to dissolve in common pursuit of HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE through the common minimum program of NAMASMARAN.
The document discusses the difficulty in achieving total stress management. It states that a lack of holistic perspective leads to misdirected efforts at stress management that ignore globally beneficial policies and plans, resulting in exponentially increasing stress. It identifies the core of total stress management as "NAMASMARAN" or remaining oriented to one's true self. NAMASMARAN allows one to blossom, realize universal unity and harmony, and overcome the universal problem of the struggle between what is and what should be, aiding in true total stress management.
This document discusses the relationship between stress, diabetes, and stress management techniques. Some key points:
1. Stress can cause and exacerbate diabetes, while having diabetes can also cause additional stress.
2. Specific stress management techniques like Namasmaran (remembering God's name) are described as being helpful for managing stress, diabetes symptoms, and complications like dizziness.
3. Questions are raised about the study of factors like hormones and the effect of foods, sleep, and illness on diabetes treatment to reduce patient and doctor confusion. Consistent practice of stress management techniques like Namasmaran can help provide peace and clarity during diabetes treatment.
This document discusses Namasmaran (remembrance of God) as the core of total stress management. It argues that while Namasmaran may seem useless or escapist at first, realizing the endless human suffering and problems leads some to see it as a way to evolve one's perspective beyond temporary fixes. Namasmaran is described as universal and able to reorient anyone to their higher self. Several objections to Namasmaran are addressed, concluding that there is freedom to practice and experience it without needing proof of its effects.
The document discusses the need to move past basal instincts like racial, religious, and political supremacy, which obstruct individual and global progress. It argues that conversions done through force, deceit or temptation promote superficial ideas rather than the true spirit of religions. As world citizens, we should abstain from conversions and oppose them through moral, legal and other means. To rededicate ourselves to our religions properly and conquer our basal nature, we must begin the practice of Namasmaran, or remembrance of the divine name, as our respective traditions prescribe. Promoting Namasmaran through various means can help ensure individual and global blossoming in line with the ideals of all religions.
This document discusses the concept of holistic physiology and its applications. It proposes studying physiology in a holistic way that promotes healing. Developing a holistic perspective requires studying all aspects of life while practicing mindfulness. Some key areas discussed include the physiology of religions, laughter, oral health, and their relationships to holistic health. Applied holistic physiology can provide insights on lifestyle factors and guide practices to prevent disease and promote well-being.
This document discusses the causes of stress, namely a lack of honest and heartfelt communication. While technology allows people to connect, most suffer from stress due to an inability to communicate at a deeper level and express their true selves. This dishonesty and lack of self-awareness leads people to be hypocritical without realizing it. The document suggests that focusing inward through practices like Namasmaran can help people reduce stress by overcoming barriers to honest communication.
Stress from various sources like hunger, illness, lack of freedom can damage romance. Romance is vital to life like water is to a tree - it blossoms when romance flows freely from roots to top. Mismanaged stress first harms close relationships, then social institutions, and eventually the world. Total Stress Management, with Namasmaran meditation at the core, trains people to overcome stress and nurture romance by choosing spiritual study voluntarily and linking it to their romantic self. This conscious evolution reduces dogma and opens the mind, allowing romance to blossom from within throughout life.
This document outlines principles for Earth Charter Cities. It begins by noting that cities are major engines of the global economy but can also have negative environmental and social impacts if not managed sustainably. It then presents 16 principles for Earth Charter Cities to guide them towards sustainability, including recognizing interdependence with nature, caring for all life, protecting human rights and the environment, ensuring democratic participation, and managing resources carefully. The goals are for cities to flourish culturally and economically while protecting the planet for future generations.
Small, individual actions like recycling and reducing personal consumption have little political impact and do not create meaningful social change. While making personal lifestyle changes can raise awareness and reduce individual harms, the root causes of issues like climate change lie in large-scale corporate and industrial activities, not individual behaviors. True political change comes from organizing collective resistance through tactics like protests, boycotts, and lobbying that challenge existing power structures, not from individual consumption choices.
This document discusses trends in the food service industry towards sustainability. It notes that customers increasingly want restaurants to reduce waste and use sustainable and ethical practices. Many consumers are seeking out local, organic, and fair trade options due to health and environmental concerns. Restaurants are responding by offering more plant-based, sustainable seafood, and local menu options. Going green has become necessary for the food industry due to these shifting customer demands and expectations.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build financially sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on promoting women entrepreneurs, climate resilience solutions, and measuring social impact.
The document provides information about the Hult Prize regional final competition being held in London on March 11-12, 2016. It includes welcome messages from the competition organizers, an overview of the Hult Prize competition goals and format, schedules and locations for the regional final events, profiles of the judges, and a call for participants to help promote the competition through social media. The regional final will feature student team presentations pitching social enterprise ideas to address issues faced by those living in crowded, impoverished urban areas, with the winning team advancing to the global finals to compete for $1 million in seed funding.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on empowering women entrepreneurs, promoting climate resilience, and helping social enterprises effectively measure their social impact.
This document provides an agenda for the World Design Forum 2012 conference on social innovation. The conference will explore how social innovation can create local, living economies from the ground up. It is organized around three themes: co-creation, social learning, and ignition. Co-creation will discuss enabling grassroots participation and shared values. Social learning will focus on skills sharing and assessment. Ignition will examine managing organic urban development and propagating successful models. The agenda includes case studies, keynotes, and a roundtable discussion on the role of design in addressing these challenges.
The document discusses how mismanaged stress can negatively impact romantic relationships and overall well-being. It states that practicing total stress management, including through namasmarn (remembrance of the divine name), can help reduce stress, make people more understanding and open, and allow them to better enjoy life's pleasures, including romance, from a young age throughout their lives. Total stress management trains people to thoughtfully choose how they approach different subjects and ideologies rather than feel compelled by external pressures.
Dr. Kashalikar discusses how education and culture can promote superficial values that create stress. Our idols and ideals are shaped by many factors beyond just appearances, such as our moods, constitutions, and life experiences. While idols may seem to vary in their qualities and backgrounds, they all exemplified living "larger than life" by bettering society or transcending human limits in their fields. True ideals are living according to principles of truth, expanding perspective, and reducing stress through reflection and spiritual practices like remembrance of God.
The document discusses stress and how yoga can help integrate the left and right brains to reduce stress. It states that when the normal stimulus-response sequence is disturbed in quality or quantity, it causes stress. Yoga is defined as the integration of the different hierarchical components of the brain and various physiological and mental activities. Practicing yoga, particularly namasmarnan which is the remembrance of God, ensures the process of being connected to an absolute cosmic consciousness and can help alleviate stress caused by imbalances and lack of integration between the left and right brains.
This document discusses how stress and corruption are ubiquitous and complex concepts. It argues that corruption stems from a corrupted perspective, which then leads to corrupt thinking, emotions, and actions. Specifically, it states that a narrow, sectarian perspective gives rise to discriminatory laws and systems that prioritize certain groups over others without concern for overall welfare. Total stress management, especially through namasmāran or remembrance of the divine, is presented as the key to addressing corruption by healing one's perspective and breaking restrictive thought patterns.
The document discusses the concept of "cerebral orgasm", which is described differently in various spiritual traditions like yoga and bhakti. While the need for sexual orgasm is commonly felt, the need for cerebral orgasm is not as concretely understood. Cerebral orgasm results in temporarily forgetting external influences or "Maya", similar to how one forgets everything during a sexual orgasm. Cerebral orgasm is described as being more intense and durable than sexual orgasm, and helps reduce stress for millions without their awareness through its freeing and blossoming influence. The document suggests verifying whether total stress management practices like holistic perspectives and universal remembrance of God can culminate in cerebral orgasm and freedom from
Spiritualism materialism and namasmaran dr. shriniwas j. kashalikarshriniwas kashalikar
1. The document discusses spiritualism versus materialism and how places of worship have become focused on trivial material gains rather than spiritual enlightenment.
2. It suggests that the split between spiritualism and materialism has led to an imbalance, with overemphasis on materialism and hollow spiritualism.
3. The solution proposed is "namasmaran," or remembrance of the divine name, which can empower people to explore dharma and reestablish harmony within themselves and society.
Excessive use of electronic devices like TVs, phones, and computers can cause stress and potentially lead to mental health issues like borderline schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder. While technology has benefits, a lack of stress management allows unchecked growth in device production, marketing, and use, subjecting people to various forms of stress. Studying and practicing total stress management techniques like mindfulness can help address this stress and allow for individual and global well-being.
HEALTH GEETA AND NAMASMARAN
The divisions such as spiritual, material, theist, atheist, superstitious, rationalist etc would begin to dissolve in common pursuit of HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE through the common minimum program of NAMASMARAN.
The document discusses the difficulty in achieving total stress management. It states that a lack of holistic perspective leads to misdirected efforts at stress management that ignore globally beneficial policies and plans, resulting in exponentially increasing stress. It identifies the core of total stress management as "NAMASMARAN" or remaining oriented to one's true self. NAMASMARAN allows one to blossom, realize universal unity and harmony, and overcome the universal problem of the struggle between what is and what should be, aiding in true total stress management.
This document discusses the relationship between stress, diabetes, and stress management techniques. Some key points:
1. Stress can cause and exacerbate diabetes, while having diabetes can also cause additional stress.
2. Specific stress management techniques like Namasmaran (remembering God's name) are described as being helpful for managing stress, diabetes symptoms, and complications like dizziness.
3. Questions are raised about the study of factors like hormones and the effect of foods, sleep, and illness on diabetes treatment to reduce patient and doctor confusion. Consistent practice of stress management techniques like Namasmaran can help provide peace and clarity during diabetes treatment.
This document discusses Namasmaran (remembrance of God) as the core of total stress management. It argues that while Namasmaran may seem useless or escapist at first, realizing the endless human suffering and problems leads some to see it as a way to evolve one's perspective beyond temporary fixes. Namasmaran is described as universal and able to reorient anyone to their higher self. Several objections to Namasmaran are addressed, concluding that there is freedom to practice and experience it without needing proof of its effects.
The document discusses the need to move past basal instincts like racial, religious, and political supremacy, which obstruct individual and global progress. It argues that conversions done through force, deceit or temptation promote superficial ideas rather than the true spirit of religions. As world citizens, we should abstain from conversions and oppose them through moral, legal and other means. To rededicate ourselves to our religions properly and conquer our basal nature, we must begin the practice of Namasmaran, or remembrance of the divine name, as our respective traditions prescribe. Promoting Namasmaran through various means can help ensure individual and global blossoming in line with the ideals of all religions.
This document discusses the concept of holistic physiology and its applications. It proposes studying physiology in a holistic way that promotes healing. Developing a holistic perspective requires studying all aspects of life while practicing mindfulness. Some key areas discussed include the physiology of religions, laughter, oral health, and their relationships to holistic health. Applied holistic physiology can provide insights on lifestyle factors and guide practices to prevent disease and promote well-being.
This document discusses the causes of stress, namely a lack of honest and heartfelt communication. While technology allows people to connect, most suffer from stress due to an inability to communicate at a deeper level and express their true selves. This dishonesty and lack of self-awareness leads people to be hypocritical without realizing it. The document suggests that focusing inward through practices like Namasmaran can help people reduce stress by overcoming barriers to honest communication.
Stress from various sources like hunger, illness, lack of freedom can damage romance. Romance is vital to life like water is to a tree - it blossoms when romance flows freely from roots to top. Mismanaged stress first harms close relationships, then social institutions, and eventually the world. Total Stress Management, with Namasmaran meditation at the core, trains people to overcome stress and nurture romance by choosing spiritual study voluntarily and linking it to their romantic self. This conscious evolution reduces dogma and opens the mind, allowing romance to blossom from within throughout life.
In absence of NAMASMARAN (even if we are reading, thinking, preaching; or actually doing charitable activities, which boost our ego); our DHARMA gets decomposed and we become oblivious to our destination and stray away from MOKSHA (the YOGA; global unity and harmony); in the wilderness of disruptive, degenerative, destructive and deceitful activities and downfall i.e. abyss.
This document discusses stress, punishment, and prayashchitta (atonement). It argues that stress is normal but mismanaging it is abnormal. It criticizes the view that increasing inner strength alone can overcome any level of external stress. The document advocates changing laws around punishment to focus more on prayashchitta - actions that help wrongdoers realize the truth and rise above their deficiencies to achieve individual and social well-being. It provides examples of alternative punishments aimed at rehabilitation rather than retribution.
These solutions are honest and holistic. But; they can be improved; and many better solutions also; can also be provided; by experts in different fields; if their third eye of cosmic consciousness is opened; through NAMASMARAN.
GSR's May 2013 Newsletter Issue No.23. It covers the latest major events and themes that shape the organization's activities and policies. Also featuring Christopher Danch's (GSR's CLO) article.
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The document discusses the unsustainable modern systems of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and waste disposal of natural resources and products. It notes that extraction rates have depleted one-third of the planet's resources in the past three decades. Production causes pollution and health issues while seeking lower regulations and costs overseas. Distribution aims to keep prices low by externalizing costs and obscuring supply chains. Consumption patterns in many areas are soaring while others have too little. Waste is increasingly exported to areas with weaker regulations as volumes rise. The anthropological perspective is relevant as it examines culture, learning, adaptation, the unnatural imposition on nature, integration and sharing.
Special Address by Pope Francis to participant in the meeting of Deloitte GlobalEnergy for One World
Pope Francis addressed participants from Deloitte Global, thanking them for their work assisting businesses. He suggested they use their expertise, networks, and influence to guide decisions toward integral human development and sustainability. The Pope called on them to take a cultural responsibility in line with Catholic social teaching, considering impacts on communities and the environment. He also encouraged enhancing diversity and an "integral" approach addressing interconnected issues like employment, environmental protection, social value, and community impact. The Pope hopes consultants can help transition to a more inclusive, moderate, and caring economic paradigm.
This document discusses several topics related to environmental ethics and gender ethics. It addresses the relationship between humans and the natural environment from an ethical perspective. It discusses how human decisions can impact the environment and future generations. It also examines the impacts of globalization on gender inequality and how women are often marginalized. Women face greater health risks and responsibilities. The document also discusses sexual harassment and discrimination against women.
CSCR Community Track #2: Community Resilience: Elan Shapiro and Eldred Harris...Sustainable Tompkins
Climate Smart & Climate Ready Conference Community Track #2 on April 20, 2013 at Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, NY. Elan Shapiro and Eldred Harris, Building Bridges. Community Resilience: Developing an Inclusive and Regenerative Strategy.
This is the introduction chapter extracted from the Manual “The Teacher´s Guide-Design for Sustainability” by Gaia Education. This is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, ecovillage and community design educators and facilitators who are conducting courses on the broad sustainability agenda.
A new vision of Economics will not emerge from the economic powers and mainstream capitalist systems alone. It is not a vision to be realized only by economists or business interests. This new vision will emerge instead from the bottom up in country after country and village after village around the world as people learn to build and take control of their own economic futures, find new ways to measure their own sense of well-being, learn to manage how the Earth’s limited natural resources are to be protected and nurtured for future generations -- after all these are our and their commons -- establish new ways to distribute wealth and secure basic living standards and dignity for all, protect the health of labour, and develop a sense of unique cultural and regional identity not dictated by global trends and political strong arms.
This case study discusses proper waste management. The objectives are to ensure environmental protection through effective waste management, increase recycling and reuse, and encourage waste-to-energy options. The goal is to maintain a cleaner environment and reduce disease by teaching proper waste disposal. The background discusses how waste management is important as population and industrialization increase. Proper disposal protects public health and the environment.
The document discusses the role of media in society. It argues that while media can educate and spread information quickly, television channels are primarily driven by commercial interests and corporate greed. Most programming aims to sell products to urban consumers and depicts lavish lifestyles unattainable by most of the population. This widens social divisions and fails to foster national unity or positive values. The document calls for media to incorporate more educational and development-oriented content to bridge urban-rural divides and promote issues like literacy, agriculture, health, and ethics.
Sustainability today and being a pioneer in your own right 2009Richard Seshie
The document discusses the lack of sustainability and flourishing in today's world. It argues that the current economic model, centered around endless growth, consumption, and the pursuit of economic success, is fundamentally flawed and the root cause of unsustainability. While many solutions have been proposed to increase environmental, social, and economic sustainability, the document is critical of solutions spearheaded by the economic community, like climate risk insurance and corporate giving, arguing they do not address the root causes within the economic system itself. It calls for a re-examination of the current economic paradigm.
The document provides an overview of the limajuliette organization, which aims to address issues like hunger, healthcare access, climate change, and children's education through sustainable infrastructure projects. The organization consists of professionals from fields like engineering, project management, and education. It plans to coordinate efforts with other like-minded groups and implement projects that promote renewable energy, regional stability, and self-sufficiency to create lasting positive change.
The document discusses Rachel Carson and her efforts to protect the environment. It notes that she accomplished a lot in her life, including banning harmful toxins. It provides brief biographical details, noting she was born in 1907 in Pennsylvania and grew up on a farm, giving her first-hand knowledge of the environment. Her most significant contribution was publishing the book Silent Spring in 1962, which exposed the dangers of pesticides and helped launch the modern environmental movement.
This document provides information about an organization called Help 4 Human Research & Development (H4HRD). It is an international non-profit organization with the mission of contributing to holistic human development and serving all humanity. Some of its key goals include improving quality of life, eliminating poverty, hunger and disease, promoting human rights, empowering marginalized groups, and promoting environmental protection. The organization has several initiatives or "missions" focused on areas like health, education, law and human rights, empowering women and children, crime prevention, and social justice. It aims to address issues like lack of access to healthcare and education, poverty, discrimination, and environmental degradation through advocacy, awareness campaigns, and community empowerment programs.
The organization aims to mitigate human and natural resource exploitation by empowering local indigenous societies to utilize and participate in managing their own resources. Its long-term goals are to establish social norms of environmental stewardship and respect for all life, and to create sustainable infrastructure for renewable energy, water, housing, education, healthcare and more in underdeveloped areas. It will implement initiatives in concert to educate local populations and enable villages of 100 people or less to maintain sustainable access to resources and technologies through cooperation with other like-minded organizations.
The document provides an overview of The Venus Project, which advocates for a resource-based global economy and the redesign of culture. It operates a 21.5-acre research center in Florida. The Venus Project believes that humanity's social and economic problems cannot be solved within the current political and monetary systems, and that a new sustainable system is needed that maximizes benefits for all people and the planet using modern technology and resources in an equitable manner without money.
This document discusses equitable partnerships for agricultural foresights and input from organizations like farmers and NGOs. It argues that including diverse voices, like smallholder farmers, in foresights can help avoid mistakes and find new solutions. While including more stakeholders might seem complex, diversity actually enhances foresights. It also notes that listening to even one farmer can provide valuable insights due to the millions of weak signals they experience. Cooperatives and organizations already represent many smallholder voices that could help shape more equitable agricultural futures.
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समाजात; आणि विशेषत: सर्व प्रकारच्या सत्ताकेंद्रांत जेवढे नामस्मरण वाढेल, तेवढ्या अधिकाधिक प्रमाणात समाजामधील सर्व स्तरांवरील क्रिया आणि प्रतिक्रिया अधिकाधिक पूर्वग्रहरहित (न्यायपूर्ण) आणि म्हणून कल्याणकारक होतात आणि व्यक्ती आणि समाजाचा सर्वांगीण विकास वेगाने होऊ लागतो.
ज्याप्रमाणे चुलीमुळे आग नियंत्रित होते आणि तिची धग भांड्याला नीटपणे लागून अन्न वेळेमध्ये शिजते, त्याचप्रमाणे जीवनातील सर्व भोगांची आणि उपभोगांची धग नामस्मरणरुपी चुलीमुळे अंतरात्म्याकडे पोचते आणि अंतरात्म्यामध्ये समाधानरुपी अन्न शिजू लागते. साहजिकच आपले, आपल्या कुटुंबियांचे आणि समाजाचे समाधान होऊ लागते! ज्याप्रमाणे चुली आणि त्यांच्यातील आग कमी जास्त असते, त्याचप्रमाणे नामसाधकांच्या प्रगतीचे टप्पे देखील वेगवेगळे असतात. पण नामस्मरणाने समाधानाकडे वाटचाल होऊ लागते; हे केवळ सद्गुरू ब्रह्मचैतन्य श्री गोंदवलेकर महाराजांच्याच नव्हे तर सर्वच संत महात्म्यांच्या शिकवणीचे त्रिवार सत्य असे सार आहे.
ह्या अमृताचा अगदी अंशत: अनुभव देखील जीवन झळाळून टाकणारा असतो आणि तो येण्यासाठी चित्तशुद्धी होत राहण्याची आवश्यकता असते. ही चित्तशुद्धी नामस्मरणाद्वारे होत जाते आणि ती चित्तशुद्धी देखील कोणत्याही बाह्य लक्षणाने ओळखता येत नाही आणि दाखविता येत नाही!
नामसंकल्पयुक्त नामस्मरणाचे चैतन्याधिष्ठान आणि सद्गुरुंची गोड ओढ; यानी रटाळ क्षण उत्साहवर्धक बनतो, कंटाळवाणा दिवस सण बनतो आणि निरर्थक आयुष्य कृतार्थ बनते! कुणीही हे करून पाहिले तर याचा अनुभव येऊ शकेल.
होय! अशी एक पायाभूत सुविधा आहे! पूर्णपणे बिनखर्चाची, कुणाचेही अंत:करण आणि आणि अस्मिता न दुखावणारी आणि सर्वांनाच सहज शक्य अशी ही सुविधा आहे. ह्या सुविधेद्वारे सद्विचार, सद्भावना, सद्वासना, सत्संकल्प आणि विश्वकल्याणकारी आणि सतत विकसित होणारी सत्कार्ये अविरतपणे घडू लागतात. प्रत्येक व्यक्ती समाधानी आणि कृतार्थ होऊ लागते. अशी अत्याधिक अत्यावश्यक पायाभूत सुविधा म्हणजे नामस्मरण
“नाम घेणाऱ्याला सत्कर्म टाळू म्हणता टाळता येत नाही” असे जेव्हां सद्गुरू श्री. ब्रह्मचैतन्य महाराज गोंदवलेकर म्हणतात, तेव्हां त्यांमध्ये वरील सर्वकाही अंतर्भूत आहे, म्हणजेच वेळ, पैसा आणि शक्ती यांचे (अर्थात आयुष्याचे) सर्वोत्तम व्यवस्थापन अनुस्यूत आहे!
परंतु पूर्वजन्मीच्या किंवा ह्या जन्मीच्या नामस्मरणाने; स्वत:च्या आणि इतरांच्या कल्याणाविषयी जी वैचारिक स्पष्टता येते ती स्पष्टता, जी गोड आणि उत्कट आस्था तयार होते ती आस्था, आणि त्या अनुरोधाने जी मन:पूर्वक कृती घडते ती कृती; ह्या तीनही बाबी मात्र हृदयाच्या अगदी जवळ असतात.
१. केवळ वाचन आणि चर्चेने नामस्मरणाच्या ह्या विश्वकल्याणकारी सामर्थ्याची संकल्पना काही प्रमाणात येऊ शकेल, पण त्याची प्रचीती येण्यासाठी नामस्मरण करणेच अत्यावश्यक आहे. किंबहुना, नामस्मरणाला पर्याय नाही असे म्हटले तरी ते अतिशयोक्त ठरणार नाही!
आपणा सर्वांना निकोप जीवनासाठी आणि जीवनाच्या सार्थकतेसाठी नामस्मरणाची, श्रीक्षेत्र गोंदवल्याची आणि अश्या प्रसाद व महाप्रसादाची अत्यंत तीव्र आणि निकडीची गरज आहे!
नामस्मरण करत प्रसाद किंवा महाप्रसाद वाढणारे आणि ग्रहण करणारे सर्वच जण ईश्वराप्रती किंवा आपल्या सद्गुरुप्रती कृतज्ञ असतात आणि कृतार्थ असतात! यातून परस्परांच्या कल्याणाची सद्वासना, सद्भावना, सद्विचार, आणि सत्संकल्प यांचे पोषण होऊन सर्वांचे उत्थान अधिक जोमाने गतिमान होते.
सद्गुरू श्री. ब्रह्मचैतन्य गोंदवलेकर महाराज म्हणतात, "आंधळ्याने पाणी भरावे तसे नाम घ्यावे. भांडे भरले किती आणि रिकामे किती, हे त्याला समजत नाही. तो भरतच राहतो. तसे नाम सतत घेत राहावे. देहाच्या कणाकणातून नामाचा ध्वनी केव्हाही यावा इतके नाम घ्यावे. सुरुवातीला रामनाम असे मुरले की पुन्हा जास्त लक्ष द्यावे लागत नाही. आपोआप देहाचे सारे कण नामजप करतात."
आम्ही सर्वच माध्यमवाल्यांनी नामस्मरणाचा अत्यंत आस्थेने अभ्यास, अगत्यपूर्वक अंगिकार आणि जीव तोडून प्रसार केला पाहिजे ह्याची खोलवर आणि तीव्र जाणीव झाली आणि त्यातच आमचे आणि सर्वांचे भले आहे ह्याबद्दल खात्री झाली!!
तुमची परम कृपा मात्र प्राणवायूप्रमाणे चिरंतन, चैतन्यमय, स्फूर्तिदायी आणि शाश्वत समाधान देणारी आहे! नामस्मरणाच्या आणि तज्जन्य सद्बुद्धीच्या, सद्भावनांच्या, सद्वासनांच्या, सत्संकल्पांच्या आणि सत्कर्माच्या रूपाने ती माझ्यासारख्या सर्वांना उपलब्ध झाली आहे!
श्रीराम समर्थ!
सतत नामस्मरण घडू लागले, गुरुची सत्ता पदोपदी जाणवू लागली, गुरुचे सानिध्य क्षणोक्षणी जाणवू लागले, जगण्याची उमेद वाढली, आजारपणाची आणि मृत्त्युची भीती गेली; आणि विशेष म्हणजे; ह्यापेक्षा वेगळे ध्येय गाठण्याची व त्यासाठी अधिक काही करण्याची उर्मी गेली तर तोच साक्षात्कार नाही का?
ह्यामुळे आहे त्या परिस्थितीत नामस्मरण टिकू लागते आणि वाढू लागते! आश्चर्याची बाब म्हणजे आपल्या लक्षात येऊ लागते की हीच ती खरी शांतता, खरी विश्रांती आणि हीच ती (स्वत:, इतर आणि परिस्थिती यांच्यामधल्या) खऱ्या सुधारणेची ईश्वरी प्रक्रिया!
Our Sadguru Shri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj Gondavalekar said, “Trust that the practice of NAMASMARAN as prescribed by Guru would emancipate the universe! Lord Rama would bless!”
नामाच्या सत्तेनेच आपल्या कळत-नकळत; सदभिरुची, सदिच्छा, सत्संकल्प, सत्प्रेरणा, सत्बुद्धी, सद्भावना, सद्वासना, सदाचार; म्हणजेच सद्गुरू ब्रह्मचैतन्य श्री. गोंदवलेकर महाराजांना अभिप्रेत असलेली संस्कृती आणि सुधारणा; व्यक्तिगत आणि सामाजिक जीवनात अधिकाधिक प्रमाणात आविष्कृत होत असतात!
पण काळजी करण्याचे कारण नाही. आपल्या इच्छे-अनिच्छेपलिकडे; विश्वचैतन्याची जननी आपली गुरुमाउली सर्व बऱ्या वाईट प्रसंगात आपल्याला सांभाळून आपल्याला चैतन्यामृतपान करवीत आहे. आपल्याकडून नामस्मरण आणि स्वधर्मपालन वाढत्या प्रमाणात करवीत आहे. सदभिरुची, सदिच्छा, सत्संकल्प, सत्प्रेरणा, सत्बुद्धी, सद्भावना, सद्वासना, सदाचार यांनी आपले व्यक्तिगत आणि सामाजिक जीवन अधिकाधिक प्रमाणात भरून टाकीत आहे! नामस्मरण करता करता आपल्याला नक्कीच याचा अनुभव येतो!
पण; काळजी करण्याचे कारण नाही. आपल्या इच्छे-अनिच्छेपलिकडे; विश्वचैतन्याची जननी आपली गुरुमाउली सर्व बऱ्या वाईट प्रसंगात आपल्याला सांभाळून आपल्याला चैतन्यामृतपान करवीत आहे. आपल्याकडून नामस्मरण आणि स्वधर्मपालन वाढत्या प्रमाणात करवीत आहे. सदभिरुची, सदिच्छा, सत्संकल्प, सत्प्रेरणा, सत्बुद्धी, सद्भावना, सद्वासना, सदाचार यांनी आपले व्यक्तिगत आणि सामाजिक जीवन अधिकाधिक प्रमाणात भरून टाकीत आहे! नामस्मरण करता करता आपल्याला नक्कीच याचा अनुभव येतो!
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2. Let us understand that our world is not merely a physical entity,
with merely the rivers and mountains. It is not merely castles,
palaces or huts and slums. It is not merely the technological
wonders or cultural panorama. It is not merely our family and
our relatives.
Besides all these; our world is actually and in essence; an
incessant ongoing search and realization of ambrosia of Truth
throughout the millennia! The seers; known and unknown to
history have made this omniscient, eternal and omnipotent
ambrosia of truth; the true spirit of united and harmonious
world; available and accessible to us!
In such a wonderful and bountiful situation why should get
drowned in helplessness?
Even if we are prone to get dragged by the beast within us, and
make life miserable for ourselves and the others, we still have
potentials to evolve!
Even if we are individuals and hence fallible; and make mistakes;
we still have freedom to make efforts to be objective and
accurate!
Even if we have limitations to our capacities, and are unable to
achieve miraculous feats, we still have ability to grow and
progress!
3. Lastly even if we are criminals, fanatics and sinners in every
respect; we still have the freedom to blossom and help other
blossom!
In short; even if we are shackled in casual, petty, superficial,
piecemeal and ad hoc approach to a variety of personal and
global stressors; we still can acquire holistic perspective and
reject the wrong (deteriorative, disastrous and destructive)
options and work for individual and global blossoming and
overcome individual and global stress as can be seen from
following examples.
For health problems; casual solution is; more hospital buildings,
more gadgets and more equipments.
Actually we need a thrust on study, practice and training of
Holistic health and Holistic medicine. For example training in
NAMASMARAN, byhearting hymns from different languages,
learning about the medicinal uses of common foods and herbs,
yoga, pranayama etc.
For the lack of education; petty solution is licensing more
institutions and greater use of learning aids and stationary.
Actually we must emphasize on Holistic Education (One which
includes development and training in spiritual and productive
domains in addition to cognitive, affective and psychomotor
domains)
4. For unemployment and beggars on the road; superficial solution
is payment to unemployed people and anti–begging law.
Actually we require to eradicate; with priority; the causes of
unemployment viz. bookish and unproductive education that
actually averts the self employment through small scale and
home industries. Apart from education; our industrial policy also
encourages unabated production of water coolers, air
conditioners and such luxury items sought by mistaken few and
thereby sabotage traditional jobs such as pot making, cane work
etc. The same is true in movie production at the cost of folk arts,
circus, and gymnastics such as mallakhamb.
For traffic jam piecemeal our solution is; building more flyover
bridges.
Actually we need to reinforce the public transport system and
curb the production and import of private cars and two
wheelers, besides taking adequate measures to reduce the
movement of people from villages to cities.
It is true that stern actions must be taken against rule and law
breakers. Discipline must be enforced. Condition of roads must
be improved. But these steps have their limitations and can not
be solely depended on. In fact in absence of proper public (mass)
transport; laws, traffic police (and more breaking and
corruption), road work (more cutting of trees), use of private
5. vehicles (congestion, chaos, pollution) and due to all these; crimes
multiply.
For suicides of farmers; ad hoc solution is subsidy package.
Actually the solution is; to resort to empower the farmers and
reorient them from market oriented harvests to what can be
called soil friendly and health friendly harvests. The farmers
have to be reoriented to the traditional wisdom of culture,
agriculture (e.g. use of neem, cow urine, cow dung), organic
farming and changing, alternating and taking different crops.
Water and electricity should be made available with topmost
priority, but the traditional contribution of animal power can not
be neglected. Ban on slaughter of animals would go a long way in
improving the farmers’ conditions.
For price rise; aberrant solution is import.
The actual solution is; to ban all deceptive, aggressive and
imposing advertisements, which create artificial demands leading
to wasteful and luxurious economic (apparently pleasurable but
effectively poisonous) activity in a small section of the society;
leading to price rise; at the cost of the rest. For example; cold
drinks, ice creams, fast foods, bars, restaurants, five star hotels,
wines, alcoholic drinks, cosmetics and other luxuries are thriving
but the vast majority is deprived of basic needs. In fact; the
policy of production of and “marketing” for few, has to be
reversed to; production and “exchange”; for the vast majority.
6. For socioeconomic backwardness; sectarian solution is
reservation policy.
Actually we require “productive and earn and learn” kind of
education for all; so that unproductive unemployed and needy
population would become empowered, productive, self sufficient
and dignified in every way.
For the growing injustice and crimes; erratic solution is
increasing the number of laws and police.
Actually we require simple and honest laws drafted in peoples’
language and understandable to people so as to discipline the
people for their growth; and simultaneously remove all the laws,
which were created to suppress and exploit the people by the
previous alien rulers. We require policies by which the
traditional and ethnic art, sports, cuisine, remedies and skills are
NOT ALLOWED to be suppressed by the tactics of the
exploitative and individualistic marketing culture. In fact in the
interest of everyone, the concept of individual and global
blossoming; which we call SUPERLIVING or Total Stress
Management has to be universalized; to overcome the globally
disastrous individualistic, exploitative globalization!
For so called “lack of progress”; illusory solution is more foreign
investment.
7. Actually; we must define progress in terms of holistic health and
restructure our policies in every field such as health care,
agriculture, industry etc rather than stooping and surrendering
to the culture of pettiness, glamour and glitter.
For shortage of electricity; symptomatic solution is load
shedding.
Actually we are required to shift our priorities from “appeasing
the exploitative and luxurious few” (e.g. production and
promotion of water cooler, air conditioners, hair driers and such
many unnecessary luxury items); to the “welfare of all”, by stern
energy saving measures; coupled with development of pollution
free, low cost, low investment alternative energy sources and
strict measures against the theft of electricity.
For road accidents; frenzied solution is compulsion of helmets,
increasing the traffic police, speed breakers and so on.
Actually the number of private vehicles on the road has to be
reduced, the number of public vehicles has to be increased, the
weekly offs have to be different and the working hours also have
to be different so that most people do not travel at the same time.
Moreover, the on campus or nearby residence has to be insisted
as and when feasible. Most importantly, holistic education and
rejuvenation of traditional jobs must be ensured so that the
helpless and forced movement of people to the cities and the
inhuman crowding of cities can be reduced.
8. For shortage of fuel; unwise solution is; generalized sermons to
common people (who in no way consume fuel) to reduce fuel
consumption.
Actually the fuel needs can be reduced if public transport is
improved and the bicycles are promoted. There has to be shift of
policies from development of airports; fly over and so on; to the
improvement in public transport and the infrastructure in the
villages, such as solar energy, wind mills, gobar gas etc.
We can cite hundreds of examples to show how we; by NOT
going to the roots of the problems; work brilliantly and skillfully;
but in a superficial, petty, individualistic, fragmented, sectarian
and divisive perspective, and increase stress! Our work (even if it
is brilliant and skilled) is rendered ineffective and/or
counterproductive! This is why in the pursuit of so called our
progress our talents are actually drained in extremely selfish and
cheap entertainment options such as gambling, drinking, casinos,
prostitution etc or other wasteful activities (at the cost of vast
majority).
It is very true that all the solutions provided can possibly be
modified, or refined in terms of details, because, they are not the
solutions provided by experts from those fields. But they surely
indicate the most essential core or the crux of the solutions.
There could be many more holistic solutions also. All these can
be cooperatively and complementarily implemented universally;
9. if the third eye of cosmic consciousness is opened through
NAMASMARAN.
The moment the word “NAMASMARAN” creeps in one
wonders; what is this? And what way is it going to bring about
global welfare!
This is a very valid question. I also had similar questions.
In the district of Satara in Maharashtra (India); there is a place
called Gondavle. I first visited this place; where there is a
samadhi mandir (shrine) of Sadguru Shri Brahmachaitanya
Gondavlekar Maharaj; about thirty years ago. I have also visited
the place called Shirdi where there is a shrine of Shri Saibaba
and Shegaon; where there is the shrine of Shri Gajanan
Maharaj. These individuals lived in 19th and early 20th century.
They are worshipped and followed by millions of devotees even
today and these are the places where millions of devotees visit
with reverence; even today.
Even as I respect these individuals and the feelings of their
devotees; the questions that used to keep gnawing me were;
“Why are these places full of activities responsible for the
downfall of mankind? Why can’t these (and other) spiritual
masters (through their benevolent influence) change these (and
other respective) places for better; through their devotees, local
administrative heads and/or the political leaders? Why are these
places immune to spiritual rejuvenation and or revitalization?
10. Why do we come across the socioeconomic and political misery;
even in these places? Why do we find people in these places in
pitiable life conditions in most respects?”
The answer to all these questions; is the development of the split
or chasm; between the spiritualism and materialism!
The ideas of heaven, nirvana, self realization, god realization,
emancipation and so on; lure many young individuals amongst
us, who go on persisting on it; with callously stoic escapism from
stark reality; helplessly!
The others amongst us become averse to the saints, shrines,
temples and son because of their apparent irrelevance to the
mainstream life.
But the chasm between apparently sublime and intellectually
appealing philosophical doctrines and the nagging material
conditions around; is a matter of inexplicable and unbearable
STRESS; to many of us who are; sensitive, intelligent and
concerned about justice to every individual and welfare of all!
This stress is because we have forgotten the concepts of pitru
dharma, matru dharma, putra dharma, acharya dharma, kula
dharma, raja dharma etc. (duties or privileges assigned to father,
mother, son, teacher, pedigree, ruler, scoiety etc. respectively for
individual and global blossoming).
11. As a result; we are being dragged by petty, narrow, superficial,
glamorous, and individualistic considerations born out of
disrespect for our ancestral traditions; wherever we belong to.
Due to our insecurity, misery, helplessness and meekness (and
the bounty of divinity) we are being compelled by to visit shrines
and temples!
The saints and their shrines provide the enlightenment and
empowerment; but we are intoxicated by petty selfishness to such
an extent that we visit these and other places of pilgrimage in a
parasitic mindset. We visit these shrines and temples with
beggarly mentality. We approach these abodes merely for trivial
gains. We think of our own selves or our families.
In other words; we are being torn apart by materialism
associated with the cancerous growth of mercenary vested
interests on the one hand and escape from the same due to
dissatisfaction, restlessness, insecurity and fear; which we glorify
and call spiritualism!
In such situation where the places of pilgrimage are also not
immune to individual and global stress (and deterioration) the
solution has to be such that it empowers us to rise above all
pettiness (the cause of stress) and practice holistic solutions in
personal and social life.
12. When we search extensively for years; we come across such a
universal and time tested solution or rather panacea and that is
NAMASMARAN.
Namasmaran empowers, enlivens, and enables us to get
reoriented to reestablish the dynamic harmony and justice within
ourselves and the society; ensuring individual and global
blossoming!
In nutshell, with NAMASMARAN; we begin to understand and
get inspired to rectify individual and social MATERIAL
conditions on the one hand and ensure simultaneously; that they
culminate into SPIRITUAL conditions i.e. individual and global
blossoming. With NAMASMARAN; we get empowered to evolve
and practice holistic intellectual, emotional, instinctual and
physical responses in the form of perspective, policy making,
planning and implementation; in all the walks of life and live
holistically; which is true DHARMA a combination of
spiritualism and materialism. We call this TOTAL STERSS
MANAGEMENT OR SUPERLIVING.
NAMASMARAN is THE TRUE YOGA i.e. reintegration,
articulation and expression of our inner enlightenment i.e. God
i.e. true SELF; into every field of life; and blossoming (spiritually
+ materially), (inside + outside), and in terms of; (profundity +
prosperity)! We can verify this; by avoiding indolence,
indifference, cynicism, skepticism, mere casual approach, blind
belief and blind disbelief!
13. Now; we have to see why and how; NAMASMARAN is a core of
Total Stress Management, or why and how Total Stress
Management is actually a byproduct of NAMASMARAN!
Let us begin with our experience that when we are agitated; by
our physical needs, passions, emotions, thoughts and ideas, and
feel restless to satisfy them!
But some of us simultaneously get agitated by the plight of
people! The plight of people enthralls, wakes up, and inspires us
to bring about change (revolution) so as to eradicate these
plights. This leads to intellectual and emotional turmoils and
motivation and mobilization in several ways. Thus we may read,
study, participate in struggles, philanthropic activities and so on.
The social circumstances however; appear dark and annoying.
The change, the revolution appears to be the only purpose of life,
even as the exact program of action and/or blue print of the
revolution; are obscure.
The frenzy of all these complex feelings is so much, that any
proponent of God or NAMASMARAN appears as “unconcerned
about peoples’ true needs, unbothered about real issues such as
poverty and injustice; and hence antisocial, hypocrite, parasitic
or at best; stupid or gullible”!
The restlessness within; is so much that it propels us to search for
instant solutions and impatiently! It compels us towards
14. addressing every problem that appears in the news papers or on
TV, apart from those in our own personal life.
As a result, we get engrossed in relevant physical service,
philanthropy, active participation in sociopolitical struggles,
emotional expression in poetry, intellectual analysis, discussions,
public speeches, writing articles and books etc. These appear to
be the methods of self assertion and solution to the problems!
Most importantly; withdrawal from such activities is suffocating,
unbearable and killing!
Namasmaran appears to be a despicable escapism from such
“very useful and urgent” activities. As regards it social
importance, it appears to be actually counterproductive. It
appears to paralyze us; who are facing problems; and make us
parasitic and paranoid! It appears to make us dependent and
helpless. It appears to discourage, distract and dissuade us from
accepting the challenges of life in personal and social life and
facing them victoriously!
The fervor of our mind never gets calmed by the advice and idea
of NAMASMARAN, though many a times we appreciate the
honesty and selflessness of the individuals advocating it.
One important experience however begins to turn us towards
NAMASMARAN.
15. Which is this experience?
The experience of endlessness of human grief, malady, disease,
tribulations, problems and the agonies and helpless ness; which
together; constitute STRESS! We begin to realize that all our
activities are not nonsense; but they are piecemeal and ad hoc.
They are not holistic. They are not radical. They at best provide
temporary, symptomatic or palliative relief.
Second realization that propels us to NAMASMARAN; is the
universal nature of NAMASMARAN!
By virtue of being free of every possible prejudice and devoid of
every possible kind of intellectual, emotional, social, cultural and
other impositions it is truly universal and NOT sectarian. It
NEVER interferes with the tradition, custom or belief systems of
any body. In fact it reorients us to our own selves! It provides
profound empowerment and reenkindles our potential to
blossom together! It revitalizes and rejuvenates every kind of
person from any age, religion, ideology, theism, atheism and all
possible socioeconomic and other differences.
Simultaneously if we read various arguments regarding
NAMASMARAN in books such as the biography of Shri
Brahmachaitanya Gondavlekar Maharaj, by Prof. K.V. Belsare;
coupled with our experiences with a variety of activities of
service and social struggle for justice; we begin to get convinced
that NAMASMARAN can evolve and transform our perspective,
16. vision, intellectual framework, emotions and instincts; and evolve
us to conceptualize the Total Stress Management by blossoming
us into objective or cosmic consciousness.
We begin to realize that; if this happens in every walk of life;
then it could usher in; individual and global blossoming, by
actualizing revolution with truly holistic contents i.e. globally
benevolent perspective and policies!
We generally feel like sharing our perspective with others; and
hence may write books on NAMASMARAN,
VISHNUSAHASRANAM, GEETA etc., publish them, try to sell
or distribute them, and/or spread the message of
NAMASMARAN with our perspective; as far and wide; and in
as many ways; as we can!
But at this juncture we have to address some arguments against
NAMASMARAN as well!
1. NAMASMARAN does not seem to do anything, if compared to
for instance; scientific research or socio-political
manipulations! It does not seem to work and produce results;
even comparable to those produced by relatively simple
agricultural activities or other handicrafts! On this back
ground; what is the basis to prove that NAMASMARAN can
lead to global blossoming?
There is no basis; excepting inner conviction! We have to
practice and verify. There is nobody else who can provide the
17. proof! In short we are privileged to practice and experience
ourselves and not depend on anybody else for the proof! We are
honored to have the freedom of NOT having to believe in
anybody!
2. If we say that NAMASMARAN evolves us into objective or
cosmic consciousness or imparts global perspective, then the
argument is, “Can you prove the cause and effect relationship?”
The answer obviously is “No”! We can not prove that
NAMASMARAN evolves us into objective or cosmic
consciousness or imparts global perspective! Even if we provide
the whole concept of Total Stress Management or holistic
perspective; one could always argue that this concept has nothing
to do with NAMASMARAN! Hence here also there is freedom of
not having to believe!
3. At some point; we realize that our opinions were not changed
through “our will”, but were changed due to the influence of
factors beyond our comprehension constituting the “field”,
cosmic consciousness or God that encompasses and influences
not merely “us” but everything; including the people in the
universe! Hence; whether people in the world would get
associated with NAMASMARAN and evolve into cosmic
consciousness; would also be determined by the same “field”!
What is the proof for existence of such a field?
18. Obviously; we have no proof that a field exists and influences us!
Because even if it exists and influences; we can not show the
cause and effect relationship of such influences on our life and
hence we can not provide any proof for such blossoming (which
may be “our mission or vision”)!
There is again freedom to practice and experience and no burden
or getting shackled into intellectual framework made by some
one else! There is no compulsion to get drowned in the some body
else’s’ words but freedom to soar in the realm beyond words!
4. Another argument is; NAMASMARAN has no influence on
individual or social life; practicing NAMASMARAN is wastage
of time! One may feel that NAMASMARAN has benevolent role,
because of erroneously attributing the good changes in him or
her to NAMASMARAN! Actually it could be the other way
round; that is; good changes in him or her; have lead to him or
her to develop interest in NAMASMARAN!
This argument is because of inability to “see” anything tangible
and rather the addiction to believe in a thing; only if it is
tangible! It can not therefore be refuted. It can only be satisfied if
the questioner exercises his or her freedom to blossom his or her
capacity to “see”!
None of the questioners; amongst us; has to slavishly believe that
NAMASMARAN can influence the social life, because the
19. blossoming is irresistibly omnipresent impossible to be turned
blind eye to; amongst and around the practitioners of
NAMASMARAN.
If we have doubt about whether NAMASMARAN blossoms us
into cosmic consciousness, or cosmic consciousness absorbs into
NAMASMARAN; or cosmic consciousness some how is related
to NAMASMARAN; or whether NAMASMARAN has anything
to do with cosmic consciousness; then also there is freedom to
blossom and experience rather than condemned to get buried in
the sterile semantics!
All in all, practice of NAMASMARAN and the experience
associated with it; are innate and beyond linguistic
comprehension and communication; though the glimpses of its
supremacy can be described. We have freedom NOT to believe in
NAMASMARAN; and provisionally accept, study, experiment
out and experience!
It appears however, that soon; the individuals and the societies of
world; would get freedom from the conflicts generated from
fulfillment or otherwise; of their physical needs, instincts,
feelings, arguments, flights of imaginations, infatuations and
restlessness, and get the privilege of being associated with
NAMASMARAN, objective bliss, cosmic consciousness, globally
beneficial perspective, policies and their implementation;
irrespective of the nature of cause and effect relationship (which
also incidentally; is a product of human intellectual framework!)!
20. 5. What is the sense in the claim that there is active peace in
NAMASMARAN; as suggested by some? What is “Active
Peace”? What is so great about it?
The “Active Peace” is a concept to suggest desireless (absence of
subjective desire) desire i.e. objective desire. This is a stage in life
reached through NAMASMARAN. It can not be and need not be
arbitrarily imposed on oneself, because, even as it is pleasant to
those who achieve it; it is not usually imaginable and hence
agreeable to us; who are engrossed in sensual pleasures.
In fact we find it quite dreadful to be “freed” from these
“pleasures”! This is a kind of “fear of loss”! We become
miserable even with the thought of such “dreaded freedom”!
However if we think keenly, then we can (in the course of
NAMASMARAN) imagine how sublime and towering is this
stage, why it is acclaimed in books like Bhagavad Gita; and why
knowingly or unknowingly; we all tend to move towards it.
6. Is it not true that NAMASMARAN has nothing to offer in
material terms?
It is true that NAMASMARAN does not ensure any concrete
material gains as such. But NAMASMARAN actually “converts”
us from our “seeker” status into a “master” status! We become
masters of our petty selves! In fact this is the hallmark of
progress in any culture; anywhere in the world.
21. However; what sort of conversion we undergo; what sort of
masters we become; has no tangibility. Hang delivered a child
and having become mother; need not be proved to others; or
need not be proved by getting certified from others. The mother
knows it more than anyone else! It is her privilege! Hence this
change within us through NAMASMARAN is accessible to
experience and not dependent for its validation on any words and
proofs!
7. Why is NAMASMARAN ridiculed by many of us?
NAMASMARAN binds us in “something” non sensuous; and due
to our immaturity; appears to force us away from our likes and
dislikes i.e. our ego. Since this is painful; we ridicule it as foolish,
escapist, nihilistic, nonsense and erratic activity.
8. Is it not true that NAMASMARAN is a kind of paranoid
behavior or slavish behavior?
Initially; NAMASMARAN gives us the feeling of submission,
prostration, defeat, surrender, prostration by negation of
ourselves. But actually this negation is of ego, and victory of our
true self. But since we do not realize this initially, we feel that this
is an unpleasant and discomforting paranoid activity, which is
not true.
22. 9. What is the use of practicing NAMASMARAN right from
childhood?
If we practice NAMASMARAN right from childhood even
without much understanding; this subconscious learning
experience remains in our subconscious and is pivotal in setting
us free from our lower self. Because of NAMASMARAN we
become oriented to our higher selves and keep blossoming! We
become relatively far more patient and persistent in the process
of Total Stress Management and overcome intense impulses
(arising from our ego or lower self) to give up NAMASMARAN!
Thus we overcome or conquer the STRESS resulting from the
conflicts between lower and higher self. This is why we should
practice of NAMASMARAN right from childhood. We call it
japa, jaap, jikra etc.
10. Is there any reason to believe that the world would unite and
blossom?
No. There is no reason to believe in anything. There is no reason
to disbelieve; or waver and vacillate either!
It is however a golden opportunity and privilege to practice
NAMASMARAN and be free to “see” the world re-exploring the
hitherto imperceptible unity and blossoming together!! This is
analogous to appropriate linking of the bogies of a train; or
assembly of various parts of a car; or even connection of various
types of cells in a body!
23. It must be clear by now to all of us; that the STRESS can be
managed temporarily and symptomatically by shopping, shower,
swimming, skating, skiing, singing, slimming and such other
ways; which serve as adjuvant measures.
Moreover; it must also be clear that we have the greatest bounty;
in form of studying and practicing Total Stress Management and
NAMASMARAN; embodying holistic perspective, policies, plans,
programs, implementation and administration; at all levels; and
realizing individual and global blossoming; inside and outside!
This is how NAMASMARAN is an inevitable and inseparable
core of Total Stress Management, or in fact; Total Stress
Management is a byproduct of NAMASMARAN!
Let us understand NAMASMARAN in some more details and
from different angles.
Namasmaran usually embodies; remembering the name of God,
Guru, great souls; such as prophets and whatever is considered
as holy e.g. planets and stars. It is remembered silently, loudly,
along with music, dance, along with breathing, in group or alone.
Further, NAMASMARAN is either counted by some means such
as fingers, rosary (called SMARANI or JAPAMALA), or
electronic counter; or practiced without counting. The traditions
vary from region to region and from religion to religion.
24. However the universal principle underlying
NAMASMARAN is to reorient our physiological and social
being; with our true self and establish and strengthen the bond
between; our physiological and social being; with our true self;
and finally reunification or merger with our true self!
Since individual consciousness is the culmination of every activity
in life; and NAMASMARAN the pinnacle of or culmination of
individual consciousness; NAMASMARAN is actually opening
the final common pathway to objective or cosmic consciousness;
so that individual consciousness in every possible activity gets
funneled into or unified with Him (our true self)!
Thus NAMASMARAN is in fact the YOGA of YOGA in the
sense that it is the culmination of consciousness associated with
every possible procedure and technique in the yoga that we are
familiar with. It is the
YOGA of YOGA because it is the culmination of consciousness
associated with all the activities in the universe, which it
encompasses as well! It is YOGA of YOGA because everybody in
the world irrespective of his/her tradition and the beliefs; would
eventually, ultimately and naturally reach it; in the process of
liberation. Even so called non believers also would not “miss” the
“benefit of NAMASMARAN as they may remember true self
through one symbol or another”!
Just as NAMASMARAN is YOGA of YOGA it is meditation of
meditation also! This is because the natural and ultimate climax
25. of every form of meditation; is remembering true self or merging
with cosmic consciousness effortlessly!
These facts however have to be realized with persistent practice
of NAMSMARAN and not blindly believed or blindly disbelieved
with casual approach!
In short NAMSMARAN is super-bounty of cosmic consciousness
for every individual to realize it (cosmic consciousness)! This is
truly a super-bounty because a person, who experiences it, rises
above mercenary, commercial and even professional and charity
planes and manifest super- transactions in his or her life!
These are just few observations to give rough idea about what is
NAMASMARAN. NAMASMARAN is an ocean of bliss. Its true
meaning is beyond description in words and has to b
experienced, not by one or few persons sporadically; but most
preferably, by billions!
The culmination of NAMASMARAN is ANUSANDHAN, which
is a state of ultimate freedom; or being connected with true self;
through the name of God as inspired by the Guru
(NAMASMARAN); in traditional practice. ANUSANDHAN is
beyond all subjective considerations and pursuits; and has
benevolent effect of facilitating ANUSANDHAN; on the entire
universe!
26. NAMASMARAN would certainly enlighten, empower and
enable some people; out of those billions practicing
NAMASMARAN; to evolve, guide and consolidate; the global
conscience and empower the global perspective, policies, plans
and programs; and thereby usher in global unity, harmony and
justice.
We should not merely believe, disbelieve, imagine, conjecture, or
theorize casually; about what is written here; and should not
develop presumptions, prejudices, liking, acceptance, disliking,
rejection or respect; and should not go into uncertainty,
dilemma, indecision, wavering, and vacillations! In stead; we
should; though provisionally; accept and actually study and
practice TOTAL STRESS MANAGEMENT and
NAMASMARAN; and verify.