STRESS AND SHOONYA MANDALA SUPERLIVING the core of which is NAMASMARAN, involves conquering the whirlpool of zero (SHOONYA MANDALA) and it’s by products; the sectarian perspective, destructive and divisive ideas, lowliness, insecurity and fear; and the consequent petty actions.

1. STRESS
AND
SHOONYA
MANDALA
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. In the famous Maruti Stotra by Samarth Ramadas
Swami; there appears a word “SHOONYA
MANDALA”.
What is SHOONYA MANDALA?
We have to go deep within our experiences to
understand and appreciate SHOONYA MANDALA
and its relevance in our day to day life!
However; though we are taught to stand, walk, jump,
run, talk, read, write and perform many skills; we are
not inspired and guided to go deep within ourselves
and know and be ourselves! In fact we don’t seem to
realize that such inspiration and guidance is even
needed!
As a result; we live reflexly, superficially and casually
in accordance with the stimuli impinging on us from
environment inside and outside our body! This kind of
subjective life; is the root cause of stress (conscious and
unconscious) in individual and global life; in the form

3. of inappropriate perspective, policies and actions; at
individual and global levels.
This subjective life of vanity and its sinking experience
constitute SHOONYA MANDALA; the whirlpool of
zero! It is the experience of frightening darkness, loss,
hopelessness, emptiness, vanity and nothingness and
“slipping of sand under our feet”; irrespective of
success and failure, richness and poverty, fame or
otherwise. It is experienced by most of us although
ambiguously.
This state sometimes termed acute or chronic
depression; is linked and corroborated with central
nervous activities, genes, neurotransmitter
concentrations and complex and multifactorial
influence of inner and outer surroundings. But we have
to realize that al these factors are born out of being
miserably trapped in SHOONYA MANDALA the
whirlpool of zero!
If we carefully search for the existence of zero, then we
realize that existence of zero is only with relation to

4. three dimensions and their influence on our brain.
Absence of a particular entity (zero) has a limited
meaning in terms of absence of that entity in that place
at that time with respect to that particular observer.
Actually; how can zero per se; i.e. nothingness exist?
Any reference to zero implies presence of time, space,
background or field and the observer and the activity
of observation! In fact; the origination of the concept
of nothingness and its designation in terms of zero,
have given rise to the dreadful concept of end and
death. This constitutes the state and experience of the
SHOONYA MANDALA; the whirlpool of zero!
SUPERLIVING the core of which is NAMASMARAN,
involves conquering the whirlpool of zero (SHOONYA
MANDALA) and it’s by products; the sectarian
perspective, destructive and divisive ideas, lowliness,
insecurity and fear; and the consequent petty actions.