But those; working towards the welfare of mankind; seem to lack this force, fervor, frenzy, courage of conviction, unity and dedication. They hesitate to spend even pittance and take even minor most risk! Can NAMASMARAN consolidate, boost, and empower us; to work with force, courage, conviction, unity and dedication; towards; blossoming of one and all; so that we can conquer the STRESS of sectarian bigotry and fanaticism? We have to verify by practice!

1. STRESS
AND
SELFISHNESS
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. If we study the Total Stress Management and various
philosophical and spiritual issues related to it; such as
selfishness; then we face following questions!
1. Do we understand the difference between “self” and
“Self”?
2. Do we practice; Self exploration, Self introspection?
3. Do we understand the signals of Self; constituting the
agony or the satisfaction; generated from deep within?
4. Do we spend time to understand the propulsive, inspiring
or motivating impulses or signals; coming from the Self i.e.
from within?
5. Do we practice; Self expression, Self assertion; and Self
satisfaction?
6. Don’t we suffer from Self pity, Self abnegation, Self
ridicule, Self deride and Self guilt?
The answers to these questions are:
1. We do not understand the nature of Self.
One of the most important and logical proof of this is that;
most of the times; we are merely elated or depressed; but
never happy. We never experience fulfillment. Our life may
be apparently beneficial or troublesome to others. But it

3. lacks the element of simultaneous blossoming of one and all,
which is possible only through “True Selfishness (not petty
selfishness)”
2. We do not practice Self exploration and Self introspection
adequately.
3. We do not understand the signals from within; as we do
not introspect Self; adequately.
4. We do not express or assert our Self adequately and are
not satisfied adequately.
5. We suffer from Self pity, Self abnegation, Self ridicule,
Self deride and Self guilt.
This is because;
Our education system is heavily influenced and governed by
the Self ignorance, fragmented, superficial and petty
perspective, reductionist and sectarian thinking, misguided
motives, and inappropriate aims, objectives, ideals and
protocols! This leads to individualistic but anti Self pursuits.
Our whole life is drained in the anti Self petty pursuits
instead of Self exploration, Self knowledge, Self realization
and Self expression.
Besides education system and the curriculums, all the fields
of life such as laws, health care, agriculture, industry, trade,
entertainment and even our belief systems, which constitute

4. informal and extracurricular education; are also; heavily
vitiated by the ignorance of Self. Hence our curricular, co-
curricular and extracurricular education is unable to train
and inspire us for Self exploration and Self realization.
Hence we do not know and are not on the way to explore,
understand and realize the true Self. We are guided by
darkness and grope in the wilderness of degradation,
degeneration and destruction of ourselves and the others;
and hence in true sense; we are Self less or Self traitors or
suicidal!
We can be Selfish; involving simultaneous blossoming of one
and all; through NAMASMARAN; the vital heritage and
crucial legacy; that has come from the seers; through
millennia. This valuable treasure has come to us in a noble
and sublime manner; through supertransactions; beyond
commercial, professional and charitable perspectives!
Total Stress Management (the core of which is
NAMASMARAN); is being truly Selfish; through Self
introspection, Self exploration, Self knowledge, Self
realization, Self assertion and Self expression by conquering
the petty self within us and within the society we live in!