This document discusses the concept of Namasmaran, which is remembering the name of God, one's guru, or other holy figures or objects, as a way to blossom in marriage and achieve total stress management. Namasmaran helps to reunify one's physiological being with one's true self through reorienting individual consciousness with objective cosmic consciousness. It is described as the "yoga of yoga" as it is the culmination of consciousness associated with all spiritual practices and activities in the universe. Remembering one's true self through symbols is said to provide a "super-bounty of cosmic consciousness" and allow one to rise above material concerns.

1. MARRIAGE
&
MUTUAL
BLOSSOMING
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Please understand what marriage is whether you
are married or unmarried; so that you live rest of
your life with dynamic satisfaction!
Marriage is a gift and opportunity from nature,
which you can use to blossom together or misuse
to perish together!
If you practice NAMASMARAN and gradually
get rid of your ego, then you would blossom
together and if you abnormally nurture your ego
through pampering your own individualistic and
at times hysterical wants only, then you would
perish together!
Happy married life, probably the most difficult
thing to achieve, is an essential part of Total
Stress Management and is definitely possible
through NAMASMARAN!
BUT WHAT IS NAMASMARAN?

3. Namasmaran means; remembering the name of
God, Guru, great souls; such as prophets and
holy objects such as planets and stars. It may be
remembered silently, loudly, along with music,
dance, along with breathing, in group or alone,
either with counting by rosary (called
SMARANI or JAPAMALA) or without
counting. The traditions vary from region to
region and from religion to religion.
However the universal principle underlying
NAMASMARAN is to reorient your
physiological being with your true self. In fact
while reorienting with true self you aim to
establish and strengthen the bond or
connection; between your physiological being;
with your true self. You aim at reunification
with yourself! Since remembering your true self
is the pinnacle of or culmination of individual
consciousness, and individual consciousness is
the culmination of every activity in life,
remembering any name of God or Guru (any
symbol of your true self) is equivalent to

4. opening the final common pathway for the
individual consciousness associated with every
possible activity to get funneled into or unified
with objective or cosmic consciousness.
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 you
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 remembering the true
self through one symbol or another”!
Just as NAMASMARAN is YOGA of YOGA it
is meditation of meditation also! It is the

5. natural and ultimate climax of every form of
meditation. 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.
Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar