STRESS

ND
WORLD
POLITICS

DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR
World politics ought to be; the expression of
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with the perspective of individual and global blossoming;
interacting heart to heart and evolving and crystallizing
the pragmatic aspects of policies, plans, programs and
their implementation (i.e. Total Stress Management, the
core of which is NAMAMSRAN)!

At present also this is happening, but in a rather

imperfect, immature, inaccurate, insufficient, inadequate
and ineffective manner. Primarily, this imperfection is
that of perspective, conceptualization, conviction and
actual experience or realization.

The millions of different needs, wants, likes, dislikes,

virtues, vices, actions, interactions, contradictions,
dialogues, hopes and despairs; of billions of living beings
of different species, ages, geographical, political, social,
economic, cultural and historical backgrounds; still have
a common aspiration for individual and global
blossoming! This is either voluntary or involuntary and
conscious or subconscious!

The visible hallmarks of this common aspiration; are

evident in; millions of people being served food free of
cost and millions of cows being cared as by Gondavle
Sansthan, ISCKON and many other institutions, tress
being planted by ISHA, millions of people being trained
in yoga by Swami Ramdev and Patanjali Yogapeeth
pariwar, promotion and cultivation of herbal plants by
Ahcarya Balkrishna, millions of people being trained in
Sudarshan Kriya by Sri Sri Ravishankar and Art of
Living pariwar, millions of people getting holistic
medical treatment by holistic medical practitioners in the
world, some attempts of international institutions such as
UNO for justice in political, legal, economic, agricultural
and health care areas, exchange of scientific technology
and humanitarian work of several organizations in
different fields)!

But more explicit and evolved manifestation of this

aspiration would be evident in;

 Universal Practice of NAMASMARAN i.e.

remembering one’s true self (about whom we are usually
oblivious), right from childhood, according to the
particular tradition
 Availability, upholding and promotion of safe
drinking water and vegetarian food ensured by all
governments.
 Redefinition of holistic health as “Optimal
intellectual, emotional, instinctual and physical actions to
promote individual and global blossoming, in one’s field”
 Practice and promotion of Holistic Medicine; i.e. the
art, science and skills of employing everything effective;
in regaining and promoting HOLISTIC HEALTH, as an
essential and inseparable core of mainstream Medical
Education, Teaching, Practice and Research.
 Holistic Education; with “earn and learn”, “produce
and progress”, “assessment of the skills by actual
practice and demonstration and passing without written
examinations; with emphasis on spiritual and productive
domain; in addition to affective, cognitive, psychomotor
domains; and research and teaching in different fields
conducive to holistic health
 All religious temples and places of worship
voluntarily incorporating educational, industrial, and
agricultural and research activities conducive to holistic
health; thereby getting re-integrated with mainstream
life
 All educational and industrial houses adopting the
religious and spiritual activities; in which, the philosophy
of holistic health is implicit (though variable in terms of
semantics i.e. languages and terms)
 Getting up early, drinking of water in morning,
rubbing the teeth, gums and palate in morning and using
herbs conducive to dental, oral and general health
 By hearting and singing of hymns and prayers of
different religions and regions
 Laws being devoid of vindictiveness and conducive to
holistic health
 The worst possible criminals also not being treated
with vengeance
 In general, the laws being formative, (e.g. the persons
soiling the public property would me made to clean the
same, a corrupt person would be made to work double
the duty hours, without salary and those involved in
misleading or deceptive commercials such as (98%
stoppage of hair fall, double increase in height) would be
made to participate in production, research, training and
practice of holistic health and medicine, at no profit. The
production of bicycles and vehicles of mass transport
being echo-friendly would have minimum or no tax)
 Sanskrit being researched and taught all over the
world if; after careful scrutiny by international well
meaning intellectuals belonging to different religions;
found beneficial to mankind
 The unifying elements and enlightenment in the lives
of saints, seers and other reformers being integral part of
all the curriculums
 The doctrines of bigotry, fanaticism, Zionism, racism,
wars and hatred occupying NO space in curriculums
 Ongoing introspective critical research and dialogue
over; pros and cons of slaughtering the cows, bullocks
and other animals
 Encouragement to folk sports as for the folk arts and
folk music.
 Evolution of defense policies barbaric, cruel, vicious,
prejudiced, suspicious, obstinate and sectarian; to
reconciliatory and globally blossoming
 Promotion of global perspective with liberal and
considerate attitude

(To be continued and revised if and when necessary)