CONQUERSTRESS

DR.SHRINIWAS

KASHALIKAR

The news on TV showing; significant increase in mental

illness due to poverty, unemployment and cut throat competition should be an eye

opener for the medicos all over the world. My books on stress

management written about15 to 35 years ago and even my speech

during my internship in Miraj had emphasized the socioeconomic

causes of illness and mental illness. My views were either ridiculed,

humiliated for such “far fetched” thinking or were deliberately and

permanently neglected and suppressed. At best; they were

appreciated with lip sympathy and otherwise ice-cold response.

The corollary of this news is that you can never do proper stress

management without participating in the socioeconomic, political and other issues in the surroundings.

You may or may not join a political party or an organization. But you

have to assert your opinions firmly and act whenever and however

possible and feasible.

The spiritual leaders are bound to fail miserably if they do not do this.

Conversely, the political leaders who are equally blind to this

relationship between the surroundings and an individual;

are bound to be miserable in their ad hoc, petty and/or callous politics.

The recent issue is that alcohol production.

The Maharashtra government (and probably many governments in the

world) is adopting alcohol promotion policies which ensure mass suicide or even worse than suicide! We all; witnessing these steps of government passively; would right from now onwards

suffer miserably and exponentially due to being party to the sin of

passing on this legacy to the posterity. Generations after

generations would continue to suffer worst than mere one time

death; due to such policy.

NAMASMARAN i.e. reorientation to one’s link with cosmic

consciousness has to be the goal, the purpose, the core and the basis of every policy including the one of firm rejection of any proposal to

promote alcohol production.

Just as promotion of alcohol is bound to be self destructive, mere

opposition to alcohol without channelizing the vitality of

individuals to their cosmic self through NAMASMARAN; can lead

to severe socio-psychiatric and socio-pathological evils!