SELF

STRESS
AND

SYSTEM

DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
When we refer to ourselves as “I” or “we”; we do not
really know what we are referring to.

Our “I” or “we” actually refers to a combination or

mixture of phenomena such as our physical needs,
passions, emotions, concepts, convictions, ideas, and
perspectives and so on. This mixture incorporates the
pleasant and unpleasant memories of our past
experiences, which may be economic, social, cultural,
religious, and racial and so on. Moreover the components
of this mixture are variable in terms of the proportions of
the intensities of their influence at different times,
different stages of maturity, different age, and different
situations and so on.

The chaos within our “I” and “we” and the chaos in the
society complement each other and create either a vicious
cycle or a wellness cycle depending upon our ability to
manage stress within and outside.

Most of us are unable to manage stress inside and outside

because our “I” and our “we” is torn apart between our
passions, emotions, concepts, likes, dislikes, dreams,
aspirations, missions and our priorities. Often we think
very nobly but are constrained, restrained and made
helpless in terms of our actions in personal and social life.

Even as psychology textbooks, counselors, spiritual

leaders, moralists, social thinkers, egalitarian leaders
preach a variety of norms for total revolution; let us
realize that NO ARBITRARY FORMULA or
COMMANDMENTS bring about individual and
universal blossoming.

A universal process of NAMASMARAN (which ensures

and ensues converging and/or culmination of all petty
passions, emotions, fetishes, fancies, whims,
idiosyncrasies into our true “I”; our innate core)
associated with ongoing evolution and crystallization of
practical concrete solutions in terms perspective, policies,
plans and implementation; is what is urgently needed for
conquering the inner and outer evils, faults, defects,
inadequacies, deficiencies or limitations and thereby
realizing simultaneous individual and global blossoming.

Neither an individual nor the system per se; are

exclusively responsible for the ubiquitous suffering, but
both complement to create either vicious or wellness
cycle. Inability to realize our true SELF (due to
inadequate practice of NAMSMARAN) makes
appropriate decisions difficult at personal and social
levels and the social system in turn aggravates chaos in
individual and social life!

It is suggested that thousands of well meaning

contributors to the individual and global blossoming; in
different capacities; realize this and enjoy the objective
process of inner growth associated with appropriate and
effective efforts to engender the social set up conducive to
promote such inner growth for the mankind; through
NAMASMARAN.