23 August 2006 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. It is a beautiful introduction. It is a beautiful account of Total Natural Law: how it works and how it will produce a new generation—a problem-free, sickness-free, suffering-free, crying-free, weakness-free, negativity-free civilization.

‘Now in about forty countries in the world, we are functioning to turn the destiny of mankind from suffering to peace, prosperity, and happiness. Every country will enjoy its sovereignty on the level of invincibility.

‘The process of manifestation of invincibility has begun. It has begun in one country in Europe, Holland, and in one country across the Atlantic, America. America is a land of science. Holland is a land of ancient culture, where peace, prosperity, friendliness, and “help thy neighbor” have been practised by the people. So it is good that it is happening now. It is no more a topic of good will—not just good will for mankind—but it is a demonstration of good, integrated national life on the level of stability, positivity, invincibility.

‘It is happening now. Now, what is going to be the fate of the governments of this generation? The governments will not be required to sacrifice their youngsters for the safety of the nation. It was a defeat for all governments when governments had to sacrifice their youngsters, their dear youngsters, in order to protect the nation. When the young are gone, for whom is the nation? It was a fallacy.

‘Today, the military to save the nation is a fallacy. It is being realized now through the same technique with which the single individual, from birth, grows. Who makes him grow? But the child grows; the youth grows; the old man grows. Who makes him grow? God, the Light of God, Total Natural Law. In our worldly manner, we call it the Constitution of the Universe. The Constitution of the Universe we have realized, and we have set the population of many countries on that path of no problems, no strain.

‘It is such a beautiful joy to inform the governments that already the time has organized for every government—the head of state and ministers—to go out of office every four, five years. At the mercy of public opinion—elections—they could come in again, but generally return is very rare. That means that the government people in charge for four or five years are not able to convince the people that they have done well for them. New people come in; the old are retired. They are gone, and in many cases they are put in jail because they have misused their position of power.

‘The same tradition of government is going to start now. Now the change will come through those who create integrated national consciousness—those who do not have to die to protect the nation. Dying for the nation was a very wrong principle of life, a very wrong principle of nationalism, a very wrong principle of dedication to the country or to others.

‘Now is the time for everyone to prevent the birth of an enemy. “Heyam Duhkham Anagatam” has been the clarion call of all governments which belong to this field—Vedic Governments. “Veda” means Total Knowledge. “Vedic Government” means the government of Total Knowledge. “Heyam Duhkham Anagatam”—prevent the birth of an enemy. This is administration through knowledge, through creativity of Total Natural Law, the Will of God—immense power. That law which creates creation knows to maintain creation. But those who are unaware of it, they remain unconcerned with it; they remain on the opposite side of life, suffering and all that.

‘It is a very beautiful time for the world. We have opened a new destiny for all mankind. Today, the situation is that when any man can employ a few hundred people, according to the population of his country—any millionaire or any one billionaire can engage five hundred or one thousand people—then my organization is there to train them. That millionaire will be like a crown prince. He will rule the world because he knows that in his reign suffering will belong to no one.

‘Now this is the call I am giving to the world press. Dr Hagelin, give the call to the world press. Any billionaire has only to employ a thousand people in his country. Just employ a thousand people, and Dr Hagelin’s Peace Government will train them in Yogic Flying, which is the advanced technique of Transcendental Meditation. They will be trained in Yogic Flying. They will be trained in operating on the level of Total Natural Law, and they will raise the integration of national consciousness. They will raise the sovereignty of the nation to the level of invincibility.

‘Any millionaire or billionaire can employ a thousand people or even just five hundred people in many countries. What does it cost? You can calculate the budget of a government, and you can calculate the budget of this new government. What will be the budget of this new government? Just a few million dollars—just a few million dollars per year— or one or two million per month.

‘Any man who has this much money can be the ruler of his country. He can be the ruler of his country today, tomorrow, within this month, next month. And Dr Hagelin will crown him with invincibility.

‘Dr Hagelin, give a call to the press. Let it be proclaimed: Any man who can engage the people necessary to practise Yogic Flying in his country to make the country invincible will be the ruler of the country, this week, next week, this month or next month. Here is a call for peace. It is not by killing the people and capturing the administrator or capturing the head of state—no. This way every head of state can deserve the crown. And Dr Hagelin will be ready to crown any person who can employ five hundred people or one thousand people to practise Yogic Flying. This will end the suffering in the country. This will establish a government with automation in administration.

‘Dr Hagelin, proclaim this to the world. Give a beautiful invitation. We do not call it a challenge, but you can call it a challenge. Any billionaire can have the crown of the parental role of the administration in his country, and we will help him on the throne.

‘The throne is a mirage these days, because the government is not competent to eliminate suffering—not competent to eliminate struggle and strife. Miraculously, the knowledge of Total Natural Law will maintain an integrated national consciousness in the country just by having five hundred people flying together in one place.

‘Great. Dr Hagelin, do it. It is beautiful. This is a clarion call of awakening for human destiny to function directly under the divine destiny.’ 

Question: Law and Order Without Fear

Dr Hagelin: ‘If you would like, Maharishi, there is a theoretical question on the subject of invincible nations. People look to the government to maintain law and order in society. Unfortunately, the longstanding tradition of many governments has been to try to impose law and order by fear of punishment through the police and the military. How will the effects of the Invincible America Course or Invincible Holland Course or any other Invincibility Course promote law and order in society without instilling fear of punishment in the people?’ 

Maharishi: ‘It is not fear that can promote law and order; it is love. When love prevails, the unifying quality prevails in society so that one cannot be subject to the diversifying quality. This is the unifying quality. Love is more effective than fear, yes?

‘Love is more effective than fear. Love is more natural than fear. Fear arises when love is defeated. In this case, the promotion of love is with the experience of bliss. It is the experience of bliss that unifies society through Yogic Flying.

‘There is a phrase that “Absence of the knowledge of Natural Law is no excuse.” Someone may say, “I did not know what would happen; I did not know; I did not know what would happen.” But he has put his finger on the fire, and the finger must burn. It is cosmic law: the finger must burn. It is cosmic law. If one does not follow Natural Law—if one follows one’s own imagination—then one is going to get into the ditch.

‘Now we have adopted a few countries, and they are rising up. I said any one millionaire can do this. Now I am saying, “Let the millionaires be fond of their wealth in the bank, and let the bank be looted or be burnt.” Now I am also giving a call to those who are not billionaires, who are not millionaires, but who are simple people earning their bread serving someone. Five hundred or one thousand people in any country, who are not very rich and are just maintaining their life, can come together, form a society, take a flying hall, fly, and create invincibility in national life—just simple, ordinary people. These are the choices for the citizens of every nation—rich or poor.

‘Now, I am giving another call. The parents know which of their children has no learning memory. Collect those who do not want to learn, those who cannot learn, and give them the practice of Transcendental Meditation and its advanced technique, Yogic Flying. They will radiate an influence of harmony, an influence of unity. Let simple people who do not want to study, because they cannot learn, be together—five hundred, one thousand—and let them fly. The moment they fly as a group, they are a government of Nature.

‘The government is governed by the collective consciousness of the nation. I have adopted four or five. They are coming up, and even in their infancy, they have created something in Europe, something in America. Some one country here, some one country there is quantitatively and qualitatively creating coherence in the world economy, in world trade, in the collective operations of the world. The effect is being shown.

‘The time has come for every country to have a crown. One person can take the credit to symbolize the parental role for the whole population of the country. Or a group of people may come along. There is a choice.

‘There have been world wars for the aspiration, “I want to rule you. You cannot manage your people; I will do better, I will do better”—these Alexanders, Hitlers. Even in the modern times, there has been the aspiration, “I will kill you—I will kill you because you are not doing right. You do not know how to live.” All these aspirations are from a barbarian age, as we call it.

‘Now is the time of the scientific age, where the most secret weapons of ordering, harmonizing and integrating are known to some few people. How many are men like Dr Hagelin, scientists? Very few in the world. And how many are the singers of Total Natural Law, Vedic Pandits? Thousands of them, but they are not practising. They are vocalizing the Constitution of the Universe, but not putting it for life to be lived according to those laws—Natural Law, Total Natural Law, the Unified Field.

‘The Unified Field in modern science is Yoga—the system of Yoga, the system of unifying. Yoga Sutras, are the ancient script of scientific derivation of how unity functions, how unity administers diversity, how the Will of God handles the variety of creation, all different levels of creation.

‘So those who want to have power in the world are openly invited. You can rule. You can rule your nation; you can rule your units of the nation. You can rule the world; you can virtually rule the world.

‘The crowning ceremony will be done by the greatest scientist of this time and the greatest educator of this time. The greatest educator is the Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace. The greatest scientist of today, of quantum mechanics, Dr Hagelin, is the custodian of that powerful ministry, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace. The entire administrative body is ready to crown the administrators of the country. One or many, they will be crowned.

‘The crowning ceremony—I will think in a few days and announce it. There will be a crowning ceremony that will be done. I see fifteen countries growing up in this way, and forty countries are in line. So there will be a crowning ceremony someday. That we will announce very soon.

‘All glory to Guru Dev. All glory to the Vedic Tradition, which has preserved this knowledge of invincibility throughout the thick and thin of time for thousands or millions of years. Now is the time to open the door of Total Knowledge and give everyone in the world that royal rulership of life, where Total Natural Law will be the guiding light of all thought and action.

‘Jai Guru Dev.’