7 December 2005 Press Conference Highlights
Opening Remarks
Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. It is such a joy to do everything in such a way that it is possible that everything is done everywhere quite simultaneously, underlined. This is our performance now. Performance has channels in space and time; it has limitations. But this course is going to do everything without much doing, which is the specialty of the Constitution of the Universe.
‘So much is going on in the world, in the galactic universe. Who knows where its administrator is? Where is the government? Where is the administrator of so much that is going on? Dr Hagelin has already explained the secret of all this to everyone during the past weeks. During the past weeks, Dr Hagelin has explained who is doing all this. This great quantum physicist told the people from where it is being done.
‘It is a very good thing. Tell the press, Dr Hagelin, all that we have been talking about and all we have been doing. Now the effort is also coming in increasing silence, and the effect is coming up in the whole field of universal dynamism—world-wide dynamism. Tell the press that it is from our Capital of the Global Country of World Peace that we are making every country rise to the dignity a of Global Country. What it amounts to is that every country is going to be rightfully functioning as a Global Country of World Peace.
‘It is a very great—I can only say—a very great joy. And where is the seat of our performance? In very simple words, Dr Hagelin has described last week’s assemblies in the international city of Geneva.
‘Dr Hagelin, ask the press if they have any questions. It is good to answer their questions.’
Question: The Constitution of the Universe and World Peace
Dr Hagelin: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Thank you very much, Maharishi. There are some excellent questions from the global press, generated by last week’s remarkable series of inaugurations of a dawning new fortune for all mankind.
‘First, Maharishi, there are questions on last week’s remarkable inaugurations. At a time when every government in the world is mired in seemingly unsolvable problems and government leaders in most countries are struggling to hold onto power, Maharishi’s Peace Government last week celebrated the dawn of a new fortune for all mankind. Maharishi told the press that a new time of peace and prosperity is coming through the support of the eternal light of the Cosmic Constitution. Would Maharishi please explain what he means by the eternal light of the Cosmic Constitution? And would Maharishi explain how his Peace Government will apply this Constitution to bring peace to a very troubled world?’
Maharishi: ‘It is good to take questions from the press, because the whole thing is so total—total. This is the scientific age, where the knowledge of total Natural Law has been discovered in functioning within the field of eternal silence. Whatever way we analyse it and look at it, it is the discovery of unity within the nature of diversity. This is discovered as an eternal phenomenon, which means a phenomenon that is eternally going on and on and on and on to the extent that, as it is going on in the relative field, it is also going on in the unmanifest field.
‘It is such a beautiful, satisfying vision of reality. Total Natural Law, with its infinite dynamism, is eternally going on within the eternal silence of self-referral consciousness. It is a huge opening not only in terms of the theoretical understanding about it but in terms of practically living it all the time. Every state is unbelievable, but that is our joy.
‘It may not be easy to understand when it is expressed in these words. But it is enjoyed in the deepest recess of silence within the self-referral reality of everyone. This is the self-referral reality of everyone. It is such an enormous field of dynamism, going on within the silence of unity. Everything is put together in one unified, self-referral wholeness, which is the Self of everyone. Being the Self of everyone, it is here, there, and everywhere. It is different everywhere, and it is the same everywhere.
‘It is very beautiful. It has been given expression last week, so clearly and so completely. Now, this week, our Movement’s leadership is planning to demonstrate this reality. How are we going to demonstrate it? Just by the different resolutions of last week in Geneva—so many different values last week.
‘Dr John Hagelin, we can ask our Prime Minister to describe this as much as it can be brought to words, as much as it can be described. In actuality, it being the field of the transcendent, it is not possible to say it. But it is possible to be it, and being it, perform all aspects of it.
‘It is the being that makes it actualise itself. Throughout the ages, an expression, “Be it so”, is the expression. It is attributed to be from the altar of God. The devotee himself appears, puts himself at the altar of God, and God whispers, “Be it so. Enjoy fulfilment of your desire.” This is the fulfilment of every religion and field of searching.
‘Dr Hagelin, can we invite our Prime Minister of the Global Country? The press should notice. What is the press is noticing? I would ask the press to notice that every country—every country on its own—is rising to be a Global Country. Every single country, small or big, is going to rise to the dignity of a Global Country of World Peace.
‘The fine point about it is that it is not necessary—now take notice of it—it is not necessary for any country to join with any other country. It is not a matter of alliance. It is not a matter of union. It is not a matter of parties uniting or raising hands: “How many votes do I have, and how many votes do you have?” It is not the voting; it is not the voting system. It is a matter of Being. It is a matter of Being.
‘When we say anything regarding this, we are only expressing the natural working of the Constitution of the Universe. This is functioning all the time, everywhere in creation or in the unmanifest state of creation. When you say “in creation”, suddenly you see that you are left peeking out the other side of creation, where there was no creation—the unmanifest field of creation. Then, you come back to the creation.
‘When you are describing the creation, then you feel embarrassed. You feel embarrassed. You are describing something which is not there, but you are using all logic, this and this, and you are proving it to be this and this and this and this. It is very embarrassing to describe the reality in both its aspects together—in its unity and its diversity—both together. This togetherness of many is not an easy thing for the reality of speech, that means the flow of knowledge.
‘All our Rajas who spoke in the last week proved, in examination, that they are the enlightened administrators of the world who are going to run the Government of World Peace. Running the Government of World Peace is simply putting ourselves in the reality of life. The reality of life is on one side individual and on one side cosmic—one side expressed, one side not expressed—one side many, one side one. It is all the beautiful things of multiplicity and unity at the same time.
‘The whole thing is so enjoyable. The world is now going to simultaneously have many cities coming up with—we have a very nice word for it—fortune-creating buildings. It is not good to say, but the buildings that are not built according to Vastu are creating an unfortunate destiny. Now the buildings will be fortune-creating buildings.
‘I heard this word from our Dr Eike, the chief of the science of construction from the Vedic Literature, when he said “fortune-creating buildings”, as opposed to the history so far which has created unfortunate buildings. The cost was calculated for the six billion people of the world to be in proper Vastus. Our Finance Minister has the whole thing at his fingertips. It is a big story to tell. It is a never-ending story to tell.
‘To whom we are talking? We are talking to those whose minds have very small functioning. Their minds are not functioning in Totality. When we give them the knowledge that we received from Guru Dev, the Vedic Tradition, then everyone will say, “Yes, yes, I know I am cosmic—that is all. Yes, I know that my house has been constructed on the same principles as the infinite diversity of the galactic universe is constructed and is being run—the same thing.”
‘The story is a never-ending story. I do not want to say two opposite things, because they nullify themselves. Therefore, the whole thing is completely describable and at the same time, completely not describable. It is unity at the same time it is diversity. This is the joy of the scientific age.
‘The details are so fine; they are such a complete expression of reality that one would like to talk only about that, only about that, only about that. When I heard Raja Dean, Raja of Washington, speaking, I found him sitting in the junction point of relative and absolute. He went on and went on; I was actually waiting to see when he would get out of sitting like the lamp at the door, which lights inside and outside. This is Nyaya an aspect of the Vedic Literature. When he was sitting where the Nyaya Sutras are, he continued from point to point, from point to point.
‘When Raja Wynne, of the Vedic City in America—Vedic America—was speaking, he was speaking all the relative values, but he was seated within himself, in his self-referral state of consciousness. This is the time that the reality, which is transcendental, beyond space and time, is being vocally presented. It is being presented in the structural dynamics of mathematics and non-mathematics completely spontaneously. You can touch it in terms of one, two, three, four, a hundred, a thousand, a million, and all that, but actually, you can describe it, you can present it yourself, by being it—by being it. You present yourself in this.
‘In these press conferences—this collection of wise men—it was very, very satisfactory to see what they are questioning, and to answer them, because the answer is so natural. In one breath, we fulfil the drawing in of the total unbounded, unlimited, galactic universe. It is so beautiful.
‘Take the questions from the press, and ask our Prime Minister or our Finance Minister to answer them all. It is such a joy to listen to them.’
Question: Maharishi’s Inspiration
Dr Hagelin: ‘Maharishi, should we close and save further questions for next week?’
Maharishi: ‘The joy of it does not allow us to stop. So continue.’
Dr Hagelin: ‘During this past week in Geneva, many new organizations and programmes were launched that were designed specifically to bring peace, prosperity, happiness, and invincibility to the people of every country on earth. This included Maharishi’s University of World Peace, Maharishi Vedic University, Maharishi Medical University and Colleges throughout the world, and many, many more. To my knowledge, never in recorded history has any individual, any organization, or any government ever planned for the whole world with such elaborate precision or on such an unimaginable global scale. My questions is: What inspired Maharishi to think on such a grand scale’
Maharishi: ‘The nature of life. It was found that life is individual, but within the individuality, life is cosmic. Then the spiritual was very necessary. When it was found that life is really bliss, and it was found that life on the practical field is a cry and all nuisance and all negativity, then the spiritual was very natural to give a turn to it.
‘So from left to right, it is natural. It is in the practice of the education that when the boys are given degrees, they are asked to turn from left to right. It is a natural thing. When one is thirsty, wanting to drink is a natural thing. So there is nothing unusual. It is usual. Aspiration is a natural thing. The whole thing is natural—that is all. The whole thing is natural. Heaven on Earth is a natural thing—Heaven on Earth.
‘It is very enjoyable to see that infinity is enjoyed by a point. It is very necessary that the point enjoys infinity and flows to infinity, and infinity flows to the point. It is mutual, embedded in nature. This flow is embedded in the eternal self-referral silence of infinity, where infinity is a point and point is infinity.
‘It is so beautiful. The two things are natural, infinity in terms of silence, infinity in terms of dynamism—silence in dynamism, dynamism in silence. Just keep on taking a turn, keep on taking a turn, this and this and this. It is a natural state of life. Nothing is happening. Life is just what it is, and one keeps enjoying one and the other, the flow from one to the other, flow from one to the other.
‘It is a beautiful thing to see. It is a beautiful thing to see the whole tree inside the nothingness of the seed, the hollowness of the seed. It is the joy of knowledge; it is the nature of knowing. It is the state of Being—natural. That is it.’
Question: What Peace-loving People Can Do
Dr Hagelin: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Thank you very much, Maharishi. Finally, the second part of that question: Is there anything that peace-loving people, rich or poor, can do to help put these programmes into place?’
Maharishi: ‘The expressions of reality in so many different ways, during these eight days of a celebration of new destiny of mankind, will go everywhere. Everywhere, people will begin to move in the waves of enlightenment. Then they will do our programme everywhere. Cities will be reconstructed; education will be in the field of the transcendent; poverty will be naturally lived in terms of affluence. All these things will happen.
‘This is the outburst of the bubble that was growing, growing, growing, and now it has burst. After a long time, so many decades and so many years and all, glory to the Vedic Tradition, the tradition of knowledge—pure knowledge, the state of Being everywhere.
‘I would remind the listeners that there was a time, there was a day, when Dr Hagelin said, “The whole thing is just nothing.” Dr Hagelin, you could describe to them your enlightened expression that the whole thing is just an idea. There is nothing; this whole thing is an idea. You could repeat your enlightened words? Again, remind them as an answer to this question [laughter].’
