Be Stressless-Mumbaikar Writes. Review on Handling Stress

Spiritual approach-the best way of handling stresses.

Though self-meditation can reduce the stresses and tensions considerably, awareness resulting from a spiritual approach helps us to live a fuller life.

If you have a bit of time then scientific enquiry into the mystery of life and understanding the structure of the cosmos through a spiritual approach can surely reduce your stress to nill.

Let me elaborate more about the 'Scientific enquiry into the mystery of life'

Science is a method of investigation.If one is interested in the scientific enquiry, one brushes aside all beliefs and credulities.One put oneself in the state of learning-of saying to oneself, 'I don't know anything, so I am going to find it out'.

So let us start reducing the stress, put yourself in the state of non-knowing and set yourself free of all manner of beliefs and credulity.The mystery of life cannot be unfolded using the logic of mind(Read it again).In the structure of cosmos you may analyse and give names to different particles.You may ever imagine categories in what you have discovered.But the mystery is contained in the totality(Sampurna).

The mystery is contained or concealed in the relationship of the parts.Not in one part or the other, separately, but in relationship of the parts to eachother, and of all the parts to the whole.(Science students, do you remember Coulomb's Law?-Every body/part attracts other with some force.

If we combine them then those two bodies will attract other body with more force.Again if we combine all those bodies/parts/particles and entire empty space in the universe then what we get is called'Totality'of the universe.).

So, mystery can not be grasped by the brain which has only an indirect way of relating itself to reality.Here, indirect way is nothing but the words, the concepts, the symbols.So, you brush aside all that-the authority of concepts, and of symbols, and of words, and of theories.

Now, purge your consciousness of all that.Empty your consciousness of all that and you find yourself in the majestic elegance of total emptiness, where the mystery uncovers itself.You don't uncover it, you don't discover it.But in the state of that silence where the energy of awareness gets released, the mystery uncovers itself.And at this time you find yourself in the state of complete stresslessness.I assure you, it works as an elixir.

By this time you must have understood that I was differentiating between the quality of awareness(of understanding) and the quality of knowledge.Please note that knowledge is irrelevant to the uncovering of the mystery while energy of awareness is a perceptive sensitivity.What is Perceptive Sensitivity? It is very simple.

When you look at something, it touches the body straight away.So, in the state of complete stresslessness, it is your whole totality that is touching the totality outside of you.Without the sense of the me and the not-me, you find yourself in the presence of the whole, the total.And there is a spontaneous relationship, there is a communication with the wholeness around you and within you.In that communication the discovery takes place.

I conclude this review here.How understanding the structure of cosmos through a spiritual way can also reduce the stress, for that read my next review in few days.