UNDERSTANDING

NAMASMARAN…UNDERSTANDINGNAMASMARAN….UNDERSTANDINGNAMASMARAN

DR.SHRINIWASKASHALIKAR

Jan 1, 2010The title is repeated!

The understanding of NAMASMARAN also goes on renovating and rebuilding itself but with newer dimensions!

Understanding and experience of NAMASMARAN go on becoming multi-colorful, sweeter, melodious and rhythmic! The ecstatic feeling of NAMASMARAN becomes overwhelming and inspires one to share it with others! Understanding, experience, feeling go on becoming deeper and deeper and get percolated in every system in the body. NAMASMARAN gradually becomes a core of our total personality and controlling center of our behavior.

In fact; “We” become secondary and NAMA and its understanding occupy the supreme position within us!

It is true that even if we started NAMASMARAN with some expectations or some wants, gradually they become redundant.

In fact through NAMASMARAN we not only go beyond the selfish motives, and expectations, but experience eternal and vital relationship between our GURU and us. In other words, this is a relationship between our objective or cosmic self and our subjective self.

At one point in time, NAMASMARAN appeared to me to be a process of liberation that would directly lead to purification of minds and blossoming of instincts, emotions, intelligence and perspective; and lead to predictable social progress.

Now also I feel that NAMASMARAN would lead to social changes, but probably not as predictably and as simplistically as they are mentioned in my books.

More over, now I think; cosmic consciousness expresses Himself through progressively blossoming enlightenment and the associated practice and preaching of NAMASMARAN, (through the chosen ones such as saints, prophets etc.) which in turn guide and motivate millions of people towards NAMASMARAN and blossoming of their instincts, emotions, intelligence and perspective! This repeats itself from time to time in different parts of the world.

GURU therefore is cosmic consciousness; and His expression from time to time, may vary in external appearance and language and/or semantics. The disciples also may vary in terms of where they come from and which background they belong to. This relationship of a particular manifestation of a GURU and a particular disciple is determined by the associations in past lives. The cosmic consciousness is eternal and the Darwinian evolution and enlightenment of an individual consciousness are contingents in this.

NAMASMARAN is an objective door to the cosmic consciousness that transcends the dimension of time. This door is created by the cosmic consciousness Himself; through great sages and seers; from time immemorial, through their practice of NAMASMARAN. This is referred to as making a NAAM; SIDDHA. Hence it is said that NAAM given by a GURU has immense significance and importance. The NAMA given by GURU is a “valid passport” to enter the cosmic consciousness.

The usual error that one is likely to commit is the error of assuming that “my activity” of NAMASMARAN would yield results. Actually I tend to forget that the cosmic consciousness GURU Himself is getting that NAMASMARAN done through me. Everything including global revolutions or universal cataclysms; are contingents including obviously; “my activity” of NAMASMARAN! NAMASMARAN is a golden opportunity to get merged with the cosmic

consciousness endowed by the cosmic consciousness GURU. Therefore it is said that we should practice NAMASMARAN for the sake of it, itself; only. The idea of “my activity” of NAMASMARAN is totally false; and hence the subsequent expectations of the results are also totally baseless, irrational and incorrect.

This explains how NAMASMARAN constitutes the essence of GITA.

It is true that NAMASMARAN appears to be restricted to the lips, mouth and vocal apparatus and hence there can be doubt about the potential of the NAMASMARAN to liberate one and all!

But once we understand that NAMSMARAN is a golden opportunity to merge with the cosmic consciousness provided by cosmic consciousness Himself, and all the revolutions which once envisaged are written on the walls, then we get freed from the burden of “doing” it and happily grab the opportunity with both hands, with

totally free mind! This is very difficult, but a sure stage in life.