In short; the propaganda per se; is not bad. But the slavery of propaganda in preference to or at the cost of pursuit of excellence; has definitely given rise to stress in all the walks of life.

1. STRESS
AND
PROPGAGANDA
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. There are many causes of STRESS. But in party
politics, power games, entertainment, showbiz,
performing arts, commercial art, writing, publishing,
advertising, marketing and such businesses; the major
cause of STRESS; is the insatiable and unending craze
of propaganda (due to the dread of being ignored,
neglected and dejected).
Even the “erudite, wise and spiritual” people amongst
us; have fallen prey to propaganda and feel terribly
handicapped, and at a major loss; in absence of
propaganda!
Being cut off from our own selves and from the innate
core of others; has made us caricatures of our selves. We
have become unsatisfied and diffident about our
convictions. Hence; if we get material success; then we
become delirious and arrogant; and if we fail, then we
become fragile and frustrated. But in both cases we are
weak and starved of devoid of inner fulfillment. We are
dependent on the crutches of propaganda for our
survival!
Thus instead of capturing the excellence in our fields;
we have become slaves and prisoners of bombastic

3. banners, hollow hoardings, pitiable placards,
preposterous posters, scandalous slogans and the deluge
of cheap advertisements in print and electronic media
and bloat with unfathomable pride and arrogance!
In short; the propaganda per se; is not bad. But the
slavery of propaganda in preference to or at the cost of
pursuit of excellence has definitely given rise to stress in
all the walks of life.
In turn; the cancerous growth of this unproductive
business of propaganda; that represents few elites in the
society is flourishing at the cost of productive majority.
Such other businesses include commission agents,
bureaucracy etc; and are pivotal in
causing/precipitating the global growth of mercenary
tendencies on the one hand; and dwindling buying
capacity in the productive masses on the other; leading
to global recession!
We have to understand that addiction of propaganda is
as bad as any other addiction if not worse and not only
does it handicap us; but it degenerates and perverts us!

4. This addiction is like accepting the mastery of our own
caricature or our shadow and meekly following it!
We still have a chance and a choice; to either become
slaves of the propaganda; and spread our STRESS; or
become free from such slavery and STRESS; through
the pursuit of excellence in fields; by way of study and
practice of holistic perspective, thinking, motivation and
actions. This is Total Stress Management (the core of
which is NAMASMARAN).
BUT WHAT IS NAMASMARAN?
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.
However the universal principle underlying

5. 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

6. “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 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!

7. The last point is; NAMASMARAN would certainly
enlighten, empower and enable some people; out of
those billions practicing NAMASMARAN; to evolve,
guide and consolidate the global conscience and thereby
manifest global unity and harmony and justice, through
globally benevolent proper policies!
References:
Namasmaran: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Sahasranetra: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Holistic Medicine: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Stress: Understanding and Management: Dr. Shriniwas
Kashalikar
Conceptual Stress: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
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