Namasmran is remembering the name of God, one's guru, or great souls through chanting, singing, or silently. It is a way to reconnect one's physiological self with one's true spiritual self. Namasmran is considered the highest form of yoga and meditation as it is a culmination of all spiritual practices and aims to unify individual consciousness with objective cosmic consciousness. Regular practice of namasmran can help rise above commercial and material concerns and manifest higher purpose in one's life. It is an ocean of bliss that is beyond full description.
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Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
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Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
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Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
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Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
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Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
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2. The craze of propaganda and hype has stupefied
even the wise people!
Everybody has begun to feel terribly
handicapped and at major loss in absence of
propaganda! Businessmen, politicians,
entertainers; lawyers, scientists, academicians,
philosophers and even spiritual leaders have
fallen prey to this addiction of propaganda!
The intoxication by the addiction to propaganda
is so much that no one can imagine success
without propaganda! “Success is not possible
without propaganda”; is a major and rampant
delusion and the consequence of this delusion is
increasing distrust and diffidence in one’s own
convictions!
3. Thus instead of studying, appreciating,
experimenting everyone has become a slave of
propaganda and prisoner of hollow and
bombastic slogans!
The propaganda in the form hoardings,
placards, and posters, massive advertisements in
print and electronic media are governing every
one! This unproductive and hence parasitic
business has hyped itself so much that every one
craves for getting a break in it and takes
unfathomable pride for being in it also!
This businesses (and such other businesses such
as commission agents, bureaucrats etc.) are
pivotal in causing/precipitating the global
growth of mercenary tendency and global
recession!
4. You have to understand that addiction of
propaganda is as bad as any other addiction if
not worse and not only does it handicap you, but
it degenerates and perverts you! This addiction
is like accepting the mastery of your own
caricature and meekly following it! This
addiction is like respecting and accepting your
own vomits as your food! This addiction is like
lovingly and passionately eating the skin of the
banana and mindlessly throwing away the
banana!
You have still got a choice; either become a slave
of the propaganda and get degenerated and
decomposed or triumphantly reach your own
essence in freedom and dignity and let the
propaganda or fame follow!
This option opens up with NAMASMARAN!
5. BUT WHAT IS NAMASMARAN?
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
6. 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
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 it in the process of liberation. Even so called
non believers also would not “miss” the “benefit of
7. 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 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!
8. 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