1. ARGUMENTS
AGAINST
NAMASMARAN
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. When I used to be charged with physical needs,
passions, emotions, thoughts, ideas, I used to feel
agitated about by the thought of similar plight of
the people! The social circumstances appeared
extremely dark and annoying.
The frenzy of all these complex feelings used to be
so much, that any proponent of God or
NAMASMARAN used to appear as unconcerned
about peoples’ true needs, unbothered about real
issues such as poverty, injustice and hence
antisocial, hypocrite, parasitic etc or at best; stupid
or gullible!
The restlessness within; used to be so much that it
used to propel me towards addressing every
problem that appeared in the news paper or on TV.
As a result, I used get engrossed in physical work
(service), emotional expression in poetry,
discussions or public speeches, intellectual analysis

3. and its expression in articles and books etc, which
appeared to be the methods of self assertion and
solution to the problems! Withdrawal from such
activities was suffocating, unbearable and killing!
Namasmaran appeared to be despicable escapism
from such “very useful and urgent” activities, for
myself and it appeared to make the people facing
problems; parasitic and paranoid! It appeared to
dissuade them from accepting the challenges of life
in personal and social life and facing them
victoriously!
The fervor of my mind would never get calmed by
the thought of NAMASMARAN, though many a
times I appreciated the honesty and selflessness of
the individuals advocating it.
Later in the course of reading about various
arguments regarding NAMASMARAN in books
such as the biography of Shri Brahmachaitanya

4. Gondavlekar Maharaj, by Prof. K.V. Belsare; I
began to get intellectually convinced that
NAMASMARAN can evolve and transform an
individual in terms of his perspective, vision,
intellectual framework, emotional depth and subtle
instincts and evolve him/her into objective
consciousness. I thought this; if happens in every
walk of life; then could usher in individual and
global blossoming, because; it could actualize
globally benevolent perspective and policies!
I wrote many books on NAMASMARAN and tried
to sell or even distribute them free of cost and
spread the message of NAMASMARAN as far and
wide as I could!
But at this juncture I would like address some
arguments against NAMASMARAN!
What is the basis to prove that NAMASMARAN
can lead to global blossoming? NAMASMARAN

5. does not seem to do anything, if compared to for
instance; scientific research or socio-political
manipulations! It does not seem to work and
produce results; even when compared to the results
produced by simple agricultural activities or other
handicrafts!
If I say that NAMASMARAN makes me objective,
then the argument is, “Can you prove the cause and
effect relationship?”
The answer obviously is “No”! I can not prove that
NAMASMARAN makes me or anyone objective! I
can not prove that NAMASMARAN imparts
global perspective!
Looking back; I realize that my opinions changed
due to the influence of factors beyond my
comprehension constituting the “field” or shall I
say cosmic consciousness; that encompasses my
personal existence. This field itself is often called

6. God. Since this “field” or God that encompasses
and influences not merely “me” but everything;
including the people in the universe; whether the
people in the world would also change and begin to
get associated with NAMASMARAN would also
be determined by the same “field”!
Of course, one can disagree with this argument
also, because there is no proof for any identifiable
existence of such a field!
Another argument besides our inability to prove
that NAMSMARAN can link us with cosmic
consciusness, or make us objectively happy, is that
NAMASMARAN does not do anything, excepting
possibly wasting time, but it is because of the
changes in you that you start getting interested in
NAMASMARAN and erroneously attribute the
changes to NAMASMARAN!

7. This argument also, can not be refuted. What can
be said is that cosmic consciusness or objective
bliss is somehow associated with
NAMASMARAN.
But even this can not be proved. Neither can I show
that I am linked (through NAMASMARAN) to
cosmic consciousness, nor can I can I prove that
those; who are not practicing NAMASMARAN;
are dissociated from cosmic consciusness or
objective bliss!
All in all, practice of NAMASMARAN and the
experience associated with it are essentially
personal and beyond linguistic communication.
One may or may not believe in them; and may or
may not provisionally accept, study, experiment
out and decide their validity or otherwise!
It appears however, that soon; the world would get
freedom from the conflicts and dualities generated

8. from fulfillment or otherwise of the physical needs,
instincts, feelings, arguments, flights of
imaginations, infatuations and restlessness, and get
the privilege of being associated with
NAMASMARAN, objective bliss, cosmic
consciousness, globally beneficial perspective and
policies and their implementation; irrespective of
the nature of cause and effect relationship (which
also is a product of human intellectual
framework!)!