The document discusses the stress faced by media personnel due to rapidly changing world events and how it affects society. It states that regular spiritual practice like NAMASMARAN can help media overcome stress and morbidity, maintain health, and guide society appropriately. It also warns about the "curse in disguise" of fame and money corrupting media people and inflating their ego if they don't remain grounded through spiritual practice. Finally, it says that the media should serve society, not dictate to it, and spiritual empowerment can help people appreciate media's role without undue importance or glorification.

1. STRESS
AND
MEDIA
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. MORBIDITY OF MEDIA
Media constitute the eyes of the human society, which is
akin to a human being. In Marathi and Sanskrit this is
called SAMAJPURUSHA.
The media personnel constitute the nerves in these eyes.
The health of these nerves and eyes determines what the
society sees, how it feels and the way in which it
responds!
Today; these eyes are exposed to enormous stress and
strain due to rapidly changing, complicated and hence
confusing and disturbing events in the world!
The conscience of the society is the brain of the
SAMAJPURUSHA; and this conscience “intends to
instruct the nerves and the eyes” to maintain their health
so that the whole SAMJPURUSHA sees, feels and
responds appropriately. The conscience of the society
further “feels that this is possible through the practice of
NAMASMARAN”!
The media people would find it easier to get motivated
and practice NAMASMARAN and overcome the
infectious morbidity; if large majority in the world

3. exercises its right and privilege to practice
NAMSMARAN; according the particular beliefs and
traditions!
MALADY OF MEDIA
Just as there is “Blessing is Disguise”, there is also
“Curse in Disguise”!
If you are a media person then usually you have to go
through it! In fact most of the people in businesses
bringing quick money and fame; such as
advertisement, movies, TV serials, and now a days
even sports and politics, have to go through this
malady of “Curse in Disguise”!
In your business you generally get more money, more
fame, more glamour, more popularity, and more
power and so on!
But!
All these personal and transient gains generally bloat
your ego beyond a limit. You do not grow strong but
actually get weaker and hollow from within!

4. You tend to become self centered and self righteous!
Most importantly you tend to speak anything because
you are heard and your pseudo-leadership tends to
elude and misguide people.
Even when your false glory fades you tend to bask in
that past glory and that makes you pitiable!
There is one way to prevent this! Try and practice
NAMASMARAN. That would help you to be realistic
about yourself and the society; and live with self
esteem and happiness; rather than bloated and
stinking ego; alternating with foul frustration! It
would help you to work in globally beneficial and
satisfactory manner throughout!
MARVELS OF MEDIA
Life is tremendously influenced through print, electronic
and various other forms of media; by many individuals
and organizations, who are working hard to earn their
own monetary profits. In spite of this profit motive; this
influence has been sometimes beneficial; though more
often it hazardous and harmful.

5. The influence of the media depends; at least partly on
your own awe about media; and how and if you marvel
at it!
If the media assume excessive importance in your life,
then the media can prejudice you in one way or another.
It can stupefy you with illusions of utopian heavens or
dread you of unrealistic hells!
This is why sometimes the media appear to be the heroes
of the spiritual renaissance and other times they appear
to be villains of destruction! But this is because; we
marvel at media and media personnel; and give them
unrealistically excessive and often undeserving
importance (sometimes out of vested interests and/or
fear)!
The media people and their beneficiaries try to project
and market themselves as all powerful heroes of all
times! Even the so called intellectual and spiritual leaders
(because of their inherent weakness) are subdued by
media!
You have to understand that the media have to serve you
and not dictate! Then only it is possible to allocate the
right position to media which they deserve. By doing this
you can (without worshipping and without despising

6. them) appreciate the innate marvels of media and media
people and the great potentials they have (which are lost
in superficiality and pettiness) and help them blossom
along with the whole world!
You require to practice NAMASMARAN and get the
first hand experience of the empowerment and self
sufficiency; independent of the media! This
empowerment of yours; would save the media and media
people from getting undue importance, undue
glorification and subsequent degeneration, degradation
and destruction; and help them blossom along with the
world!
You need not believe. But you need not disbelieve also.
You may rather; think, discuss, practice and verify for
yourself!