Is it not possible to successfully tread through the four progressive stages of traditional stress management and prevent VINASHA in some other simpler ways and/or through some short cuts? In my experience; NO! It is not possible in any way other than NAMASMARAN!

1. TECHNOLOGY
SIDDHI
AND
MAYA
DR.
SHRINIWAS
JANARDAN
KASHALIKAR

2. Technology has made many things, thought to be impossible in
the past, easily possible!
In common language these technological feats could be conceived
and appreciated as extraordinary achievements. In spiritual
tradition such achievements (though through different means
and ways) are called SIDDHIS.
ADWAITA philosophy refers to the internal and external
universe as MAYA or MITHYA, to indicate and convey its
changing, fleeting and hence deceptive nature. I conceive MAYA
as relative reality as distinguished from absolute.
Technology validates this perspective in many ways.
It is through technology (modern siddhis) that we realize that
what we see in the immediate vicinity with naked eyes is only
apparent and the ‘reality’ of electromagnetic radiations and
microbes is not apparent.
The transmission of news on the news channels of electronic
media; validates with great impact, that every situation, every
person, every success or failure and every moment, are
ephemeral, transient and fleeting!
The internet highlights the fact not appreciable to otherwise
intelligent mind; that millions of people are reading and thinking

3. about what is uploaded and millions of people are engaged in
different activities beneficial or harmful to mankind.
It is however necessary to appreciate; that whatever is apparent
through technology is also fleeting and superficial.
In other words, it is also; relative reality and not absolute! In
fact, technology can create illusions, delusions and thereby
hallucinatory effects leading to paranoid feelings and behavior.
For example, the larger than life presentation of movies, serials,
reality shows, advertisements; can create havoc, especially in
young minds. The technological feats (siddhis) thus can unveil
the maya on the one hand and create far more illusory, deceptive
and destructive “replications of MAYA” on the other!
What is absolute?
We find ultimate culmination of our life in the absolute or cosmic
consciousness. It is in this cosmic consciousness that we
experience the ultimate of bliss, peace, and harmony; and the
way to this “absolute” is NAMASMARAN! We should not
believe, disbelieve, accept or discard this; blindly; but verify this
conviction; on the basis of extensive study, discussion,
contemplation and most importantly, the practice!