22 February 2006 Press Conference Highlights

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Before we invite the questions, I have an answer for the press. I would advise the press not to waste their time on the person, but to value the eternal truth that he represents. In reality, it is not the person but the principle that works.

‘About the principle: “For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever.” Maharishi has been this Maharishi, this generation. Every generation has been blessed with good people. But it is what they have been saying that is of value. One body is here today, and another tomorrow, a third the next day, a fourth the next day, a fifth the next day. These fleeting waves are not so important. It is the base of all the waves, the ocean—the silent, unfathomable reality—the source of all this that is important.

‘In Vedic Civilization, always and always, it is not the individual but the cosmic, self-referral, invincible reality of the Constitution of the Universe that is important. We cannot give importance to any individual here or there—now he is sleeping, now he is drowsy, now he is this, now he is that. He is a football of situations and circumstances as an individual. The waves depend upon the winds. With a wind from the north, there it may go; with a wind from the south, the wave goes to the south. This dependence on situations and circumstances is a trifling thing.

‘Permanent and eternal, in the Vedic expressions, are two words that are very important. The words are “Nitya” and “Apaurusheya”. “Nitya” means eternal and non-changing—the reality of all times. “Apaurusheya” means uncreated. Total Natural Law is not created by anyone. It is self-sustained, self-generated, self-created. For example, what is there inside the banyan seed? It is hollowness. And who creates the concrete, big, huge banyan tree? Hollowness, nothingness, emptiness, the unmanifest. This unmanifest hollowness, nothingness—a big zero—is not created by anyone. This is the source of all the expressions of the huge banyan tree.

‘Like that, the source of all the multiple creation is the unmanifest, Apaurusheya, not created by anyone, the completely self-referral state of eternal Being. Eternal Being has come up on its own script. That is the script called Veda. The definition of Veda—the Constitution of the Universe, the eternal and uncreated—is “Mantra Brahmanyor Veda Namadheyam”. Mantra and Brahmana together compose Veda.

‘Mantra is a word, a sound. Shruti is that which is heard. But where is it heard? It is heard where the means of hearing—the ears, the sense of hearing—is not lively. The sense of hearing requires the physical instrument of the ears. Beyond that, transcending that, is the sound of the Veda, that sound which is not created by anyone. It is created by its own nature.

‘Veda is Nitya and Apaurusheya; it is eternal and uncreated. That is why Vedic authenticity is the ultimate authenticity. The Vedic Tradition is that Veda is always quoted. Sometimes it may appear that this person is speaking. But it is not the person that is speaking. The speaker of the Veda is Veda itself. The reality of Veda is Veda itself, not someone who says, “That is the Veda”—no.

‘That is why, in the Vedic Tradition, the importance is not given to one person. One person, in his drowsiness, may see something as something else. In the drowsy state, one may see a tree to be an elephant or a tiger and run away from there. All this is a state of dream. So it is not the individual who is important—absolutely not the individual who is important. It is the principle. It is not the person, it is the principle that is important.

‘When they give importance to the individual, then today he is this, tomorrow he is that. Today he is a minister and rules. Tomorrow he is tried and put to jail. What is this? So never give the importance to the person; give importance to the principle.

‘It is not the Maharishi who is doing it; it is the Maha—“the Great”. “Great” means eternal, uncreated, self-referral. “Divine” is the word for who does it. “Divinity” is the word for who does it. Humanity is tossed about by change. So it is not the change.

‘Always, when accomplished speakers speak, they say, “My Guru Dev did it.” All is attributed to the eternal tradition of the Vedic Masters. Therefore, it is not Maharishi; it is the eternal authenticity of the transcendental field, which is the main source of life, the main guiding principle of life.

‘In Vedic Terminology, action is attributed to bring forth results—Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha. Every action produces four results at every moment of action. Action is adored for its four results. One is Dharma. “Dharma” means allotted duty. How does one know one’s duty? One knows one’s duty on the basis of Jyotish Vidya from the time of birth. Jyotish Vidya is all-knowing knowledge and is an aspect of the Veda. Jyotish is one of the six parts of the Veda. It determines what the individual is born for, and what heritage he comes with. He comes with this heritage or that heritage. It is all inscribed in that language of the transcendent where it does not change.

‘The value of mathematics is that it can be verified to be correct. You subtract this, divide this, and multiply this. Vedic Mathematics uses calculations which are transcendental, because Vedic Mathematics is the mathematics of the transcendental.

‘I want to use a word to show everyone how amusing this whole field of knowledge is. All mathematics is the mathematics of zero. Zero is the reality. The hollowness of the banyan seed, the emptiness of the banyan seed, the nothingness of the banyan seed, the zero point of banyan seed, is that which creates a banyan tree. This is Vedic Mathematics.

‘Vedic Mathematics is the mathematics of the Veda—the mathematics of Total Knowledge. Only the mathematics of Total Knowledge is capable of calculating the unfathomable effect of any action. The Vedic Term is “Gahana Karmano Gatih”—“Deep is the passage of action.” Deep is the passage of action because Vedic action is only in nothingness. There is no basis of nothingness. Nothingness is its own basis. This nothingness works out the unfathomable field of action. The whole field of action is unfathomable.

‘Only the field of Jyotish, which is the sixth Anga, the sixth part of the body of the Veda, can lay open the steps of calculation. What are the steps of calculation? Zero within zero, zero within zero, zero within zero, zero within zero. The whole thing is beyond anything and anyone.

‘That which is beyond anything and anyone is present everywhere. It is present everywhere silently, and present everywhere in its dynamic character. This is life. Life is changing and non-changing—changing, non-changing.

‘An iota of this knowledge is the unbounded wholeness of this knowledge. A point of this knowledge is the infinity of this knowledge. That is why, while praising the grace of the Master, one says, “Tat Padam Darashitam Yena, Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah”—“By whose grace I get the glimpse of the feet.” An iota of it and then, an iota of it is the infinity of it.

‘It is a marvelous field. This is the playfield of the wise. Throughout the ages, it is the joy of the wise to say something that cannot be completely said at any time by anyone.

‘Regarding adopting the countries, the logic is very simple. The logic is that any man can only do what he is doing. A man can only do what he is doing, because he may be at any stage of sleep state of consciousness, dreaming consciousness, or waking consciousness. A man of one consciousness can only hear his value. He cannot hear any other value. Just like a man with some glasses—maybe green glasses—can only see green. Another, with red glasses, can only see red. If you talk to a man who has red glasses about all the glory of the white, he says, “Yes, yes, I see what you mean.” But he is seeing red. He is hearing the glory of the white and seeing red.

‘That is why there is nothing in the relative that can stand as a guide or as an example. What is exemplary is that which is independent, invincible, infinite, eternal freedom, fullness—there is no lack of anything—transcendental, self-referral Being. And the language of that is the Veda, the word and the gap. The gap is the unmanifest, the value of the zero.

‘All of our schools of Vedic Education that are being established here and there are to really give to the calculating world, which is aspiring for something reliable, the basis of life in zero-point motion, the value of zero. Absolute zero is all that matters. The unmanifest hollowness of the seed is all that matters for the well-being of the innumerable leaves, innumerable flowers, innumerable fruits. Different values of the structure of a tree have their source in the big zero. If you water the root and water the seed, which are down there, then you supply nourishment to all aspects of the tree. This is wisdom.

‘The wisdom is to water the root. This is the practice of Samadhi in the field of Yoga. The practice of the settled state of the intellect is Samadhi. “Dhi” means the intellect. Settled-down intellect, the zero awareness, is the awareness of the Self. There the Totality is lively in our attention. This is fully awake consciousness, fully awake intelligence. This is the basis of all knowledge. This is the field of all knowledge. That is why every child must learn this Samadhi, this Yoga, this extreme value of devotion, where the devotee is lost in the awareness of his devotion.

‘Therefore, my advice to the press is do not worry about Maharishi, but take what he has been saying for fifty years—Transcendental Meditation and the advanced techniques of Transcendental Meditation. Yogic Flying is the proof that one is able to function from that zero, from that nothingness, from that awareness where wholeness is fully awake—Total Knowledge, Total Organizing Power, the transcendental field of consciousness.

‘Individuals everywhere, governments everywhere, and everything everywhere is influencing everything. Everything is influencing everything. That is why, remaining within the field of relative existence, no one can be ideal. Who will be ideal? Transcendental, self-referral consciousness alone can be the authority, the ideal, something that should be followed.

‘Give importance to the message, as long as the messenger is in tune with the infinity, eternity, wholeness. Dr Hagelin, tell the world press that life is the same old life that existed innumerable years ago—ten thousand, twenty thousand. Life now is the same. The banana tree is the same banana tree that has been there since we do not know when. Mango was the same mango tree, absolutely the same mango tree. All the time it was the same mango tree. Even today it is the same mango tree.

‘So the world is going on with the patterns that have been carrying the world. Individuals come and go and come and go. How many? Ten years, twenty years, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, one could come and go, and come and go, and come and go. But it does not matter. The come and go, the waves, do not matter. The southern wave or the northern wave or the western wave—all are dependent on the winds. Whatever wind comes, the waves come and go. Important is that which never comes and goes—the ocean. The silent ocean is Being, self-referral and eternal. That is of value. The unmanifest value of the seed—hollowness, emptiness, zero—is all that is important.

‘Education has to give importance to something permanent, on the basis of which everything is like a wave. What happens generally is that the individual thinks, “Oh, in this whole world, what can I do as an individual?” For them, I have an example. In the rainy season, what comes? Drop by drop. Rain comes in drops—one drop, one drop, one drop. Now this drop, this one drop says, “Oh, what can I do? I am a single drop. What can I do?” But that single drop makes the rivers flood, makes the ground completely full of water. It is drop by drop, drop by drop; it is individual by individual, individual by individual.

‘The value of the individual is like a drop. It is the drop by drop that floods the ocean and floods the rivers. It is the individual and always the individual who has his value based on where he stands in his personality. His personal personality is basically completely personal.

‘I was very proud of Raja Raam-ji when he told me that, “It seems that the physiology has its basis in consciousness.” I said, “Yes, this is it.” The physiology has its basis in consciousness. Therefore, education should be Consciousness-Based Education—period.

‘In the present, there is no entry into the field of consciousness. It is too superficial. Somebody wrote this book, and somebody wrote that. They are human expressions. What is missing is the permanent, eternal, unbounded infinity expressed in sound, in language, in waves—the Veda.

‘Veda, the field of Total Knowledge, should be delivered to the boy in the first word, “A”; in the second word, “I” ; in the third word, “U’’. “A”, “I”, and “U” are vowels of the Vedic Language. The vowels and consonants of the Sanskrit language are very similar to and almost the same thing as the Vedic Language. This is the language worthy of learning, worthy of making use of.

‘So a new world has to be created. Organizations are influenced by the environment; governments are influenced by the environment. Every government can do only what it is doing, because a government is governed by the collective consciousness of the nation. The president of any country looks to be an individual, but he is governed by the quality of the collective consciousness of the nation. He is an instrument of the collective consciousness of the nation.

‘I realized this after many years, when I was sending information to the governments and talking to presidents and ministers. But I found, when I talked to them, that they hear and nod their heads. But then, when I go away, they have their own level of action. I concluded that these are the really, really intelligent people of their country, the really fortunate people of their country, but they cannot understand, because they are ruled by the collective consciousness of the nation. Then, when I realized this a few years ago, I stopped talking to them. It is a waste of time talking to them.

‘But I wanted the world to be better. It is for that that I came out of India and went here and went there. I never minded where I was, in what hotel, or who my host was. I just wanted Transcendental Meditation, Transcendental Meditation, Transcendental Meditation. I did not talk about anything else; I talked only about Transcendental Meditation.

‘When they celebrated the fifty year Golden Jubilee of the Movement, this celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Movement alerted me suddenly. What came to me was that is not necessary for me to publicize and gather mass opinion. I realized that what is necessary is to produce the effect. I should only produce the effect.

‘In fifty years there are so many thousands, so many hundreds of thousands, a million, two million people meditating here, there, everywhere like the stars in the empty sky. Some here, some there—“Twinkle, twinkle, little star”—they are all over. What did it prove to me? That it is possible.

‘Scientists told me what happens when so many people meditate collectively. I listened to the news and felt very happy. But that did not solve the problem of transforming the world as a whole to its real value of bliss and fullness.

‘Then I thought, “Now try it out. Instead of talking about it, create exemplary groups somewhere and see the effect.” So I decided, “Now, in this country, what is the population? Approximately what will be the number of Yogic Flyers which will create integrated national consciousness? Somewhere two hundred, somewhere five hundred, somewhere a thousand, two thousand.”

‘I have selected some twenty-four countries—some big countries, some small countries, some rich countries, some poor countries. I wanted to try in all kinds of qualities of different countries. So I have selected twenty-four countries. Gradually, what I have done is divide the operation into two factors: one locally in the country, and one collectively in India, the land of the Veda.

‘The tradition in the land of the Veda is that they can create an effect by resolution. Resolution is an essential part of the Yagya. Yagya is a performance of the Vedic Language—one Mantra with the other Mantra. It is a system of operation and Vedic Pandits know it by their tradition. From father to son, it is an oral tradition. The Pandits are being gathered now in each country, and so many Pandits are being put up according to the population in India.

‘There are two, three values: one value of the Vedic Word; the other is Vedic Gap. The Vedic Gap is also a part of the Veda, but that is elaborated in the Sutras, in short expressions of the knowledge of Yoga, the aspect of Yoga. Yoga can be practised by anyone. Samadhi, Transcendental Consciousness, and Yogic Flying are a part of Yoga.

‘I am establishing this according to the population of the country. But they must live properly, according to Vastu. There is one within the other, one within the other. Nothing will be accomplished if these people do not live in proper architecture. Therefore, architecture is very, very important.

‘I have started a programme of reconstruction of the world. The reconstruction of the world will very soon begin to show its results, because builders are everywhere. Day and night, builders are working everywhere. They are getting their profit and commission. So they are working for their business. Now they will be told to build according to Sthapatya Veda, build according to the architecture of the Veda, Vedic Architecture. They will begin to build according to Vedic Architecture, because, according to Vedic Architecture, they will be providing fortune-creating houses, fortune-creating buildings.

‘Without Vedic Architecture—I am very hesitant to say, but I must say it—without Vedic Architecture builders have been building misfortune-creating buildings. There are so many minute points in this architecture. A very gross point is that the entrance of the house in the north is very fortunate; in every way, it is a fortune-creating building. Entrance on the east is most fortunate, most auspicious. Entrance on the north is second best. Entrance on the west is third best, and it begins to bring in negativity. Entrance on the south is fourth best, and it is the worst. It is very unfortunate for health, wealth, and family and children and relationship—for everything. The southern-entrance house is a misfortune-creating house. A house with an eastern entrance is a very fortunate house in every way—health, wealth, wisdom, success, and all that.

‘These are the very fine points which the world has missed. That is why the world is in a pool of suffering. Suffering has saturated so much due to the lack of importance of the zero-point opening to the mind and intellect and ego, and due to the living conditions in the houses and buildings that themselves are misfortune-creating buildings.

‘Man has to be transformed by education for enlightenment, Transcendental Consciousness. And man has to be enlightened about living in proper Vastu, according to the Vedic Architecture. The mind has to be Vedic, intellect has to be Vedic, ego has to be Vedic. That means the total individual has to be lively in its total potential—total potential of knowledge and total potential of the organizing power of knowledge. And, on the surface, just as body should be pure for mind to be awake in the zero-point motion, similarly the physiology has to be protected from influences from outside. The value of the potential of the house should be cosmic also. A house, according to Sthapatya Veda, connects one more freely with his cosmic potential.

‘There are wheels within wheels; there are wheels within wheels. These are the wheels of knowledge, knowledge, knowledge—education and all that. We are doing what we know will purify the collective consciousness of every society, every city, every province, every nation, and the world.

‘We have started this programme completely innocently, like the programme of lighting a lamp here, a lamp there, a lamp here and a lamp there, a lamp here and a lamp there. The whole field will get lighted by coherence, by integration of national consciousness. Integrated national consciousness will influence the people and the governments on the level of integrated wholeness.

‘The governments are shadowed these days. What is the shadow? Each government is a sovereign government, a very sovereign government—fine. One man comes tomorrow and throws out the government. That is the sovereignty of the government.

‘So sovereignty is not enough. It is a superficial, hollow, misguiding principle, on which all the presidents and ministers that form the government live a very precarious kind of imaginary value, because they cannot do even what they know. They are influenced by the atmospheric conditions, by the environmental values.

‘Therefore, I have to quietly pick up some people and put them to flight, put them to fly. Gradually, they will purify their atmosphere. The purified atmosphere will spread and make the national consciousness integrated. That is the hope for the world I am set on doing.

‘That is why sometime ago, I said, “The arrow has left the bow, and is going to produce the effect.” It is going to produce the effect. It is no more the time for me to talk about it. Dr Hagelin’s words are so piercing. He talks with such insight into the Vedic reality. And so does Dr Morris, the fortunate Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace.

‘The Finance Minister has opened his purse to inexhaustible wealth. He is informing the governments, but no government is listening to him. They are not. We hear that all the poor governments reply very amusing replies that come in letters. I said, “Do not waste time with the governments. Create the atmosphere where the quality of the government will be more capable of doing the parental role for its subjects.” No government is able to fulfil its parental role.

‘Now, in these countries we will see how much time it takes to purify a country’s national consciousness. We are taking some small countries, but mostly big countries. We are trying this out. We will see when the parental role of the government will begin to be seen fulfilled in practice. It will come along, because even a small candle light in a dark room is good enough to have some kind of dim light. At least the darkness is not there as it was before.

‘So I am taking up country by country. I am hopeful that with the groups of Yogic Flyers that I am establishing, if we create proper Vastu villages for them of two hundred, five hundred, one thousand, two thousand, that it will be enough for the whole national consciousness to become integrated. Once it starts in one country, we will know that this many are really sufficient to produce the effect, from darkness to light.

‘By saying this, I am expressing my great delight that the Movement started fifty years ago. It has taken fifty years, but it does not matter. The lotus has started to come up from the dirty pond. Thank the good fortune that is dawning for the world.

‘The world press is always a clarion call for the people to this and this and this and this. Now, a good time is coming for the world press also. A good time is coming for the people everywhere—a very good time, very fortunate time. A very, very fortunate time is coming for every government. They will be able to play their parental role, and all the people will enjoy Heaven on Earth. All glory to Guru Dev; all glory to Guru Dev. Brahmananda Saraswati Vijayante Taram.

‘Dr Hagelin, extend the possiblility for all the future of mankind to be in the fullness of dignity and divine glory and divine presence. Jai Guru Dev.’