6 July 2005 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Now we are immersed in creating that intense coherence in world consciousness, which is going to be more and more permanent from the level of the Peace Government. This is the supreme level of offer from any parental role for the world: peace, happiness, and fulfilment for the individual; positivity, coherence, and integration on the level of national life; and invincibility to every nation in the international world.

‘I wish today’s talk by Dr Hagelin could be heard by the people day after day and week after week until their governments realize and undertake to raise their country to that high level of integration and coherence where problems will not arise anywhere. Listen to the scientist of America. You may not listen to me, because still I find people writing about some funny things here and there even after fifty years. My language may not be the common language of the market of the world, but listen to the expressions of an accomplished scientist of America.

‘That is a country where everyone feels darkness is radiating day and night. From that land of darkness, like the lightning in the dark clouds, is coming the voice in simple words of an accomplished scientist of the Peace Government. How? Just a few thousand or a few hundred people, here, there, everywhere, or anywhere in the country practising the Transcendental Meditation Technique and its advanced techniques including Yogic Flying, will create and maintain forever a strong influence of coherence in national consciousness.

‘A strong influence of coherence in national consciousness means a lighted house where darkness cannot penetrate. If the lamp is lit, there is no room for darkness. Fighting the darkness is not our profession. Lighting the light is our individual profession. Now, after about fifty years, we have come to the conclusion that a few groups of individuals, practising this programme together are completely enough for that area. If the group is bigger, it is good enough for a nation; if the group is bigger, it is good enough for the international world.

‘If there are questions from the press, it is all right; it is always a joy. Our joy lies in creating now, day after day, more and more of an intensified state of coherence in world consciousness. His Majesty Raja Raam, the First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace, is crowning eight Rajas, eight rulers of the world, from the level of consciousness where consciousness has created its home in the physiology and runs the physiology from within it. Raja Raam’s discovery, we have been announcing to the world, has shown that consciousness is the fundamental level of life on which all the physiological structures of the universe are based. We are masters of that level of life which is basic to all expressions of the universe.

‘Dr Hagelin said in beautifully simple words that the Constitution of the Universe is on that level which is almighty, everywhere, omnipresent, omniscient, the light of God. Remember the expression of Dr Hagelin, “The science of today is the science of today. It is not the science of yesterday.” Yesterday there was the science of mathematical accuracy and mathematical equations. Today’s science is certainly not devoid of that mathematical accuracy, but it is translated into the technology of daily life.

‘What is the science and technology of daily life? We call it all the knowledge, Total Knowledge, assembled in the package of the Constitution of the Universe, the Veda. Veda is Total Knowledge. “Total Knowledge” means knowledge of this, that, and everything, knowledge of all positivity, knowledge of plus infinity to minus infinity—knowledge of the plus of the point of infinity to the minus of the point of infinity. This is Total Knowledge—simple—the Veda.

‘Veda is delivered to us from the Vedic Tradition. The tradition pertaining to the knowledge of the Veda is the Vedic Tradition. There still are remnants of this Vedic Tradition—the Indian Vedic Tradition. We are going to encourage those people and are encouraging them. They have been driven out in this wave of materialism, running after money, and not minding their own traditional heritage. We are trying to uplift them. . . .

‘India can only be India if the leadership in India has the authenticity of the Veda. “Brahmanam Paramam Shruti”—the ultimate authenticity belongs to the Veda. Veda is “Vedo Akhilo Dharma Mulam”—Veda is total Dharma. . . .

‘The leadership in India has no basis in that immense authority and power of Lord Vishnu, Lord Rama, Lord Ganapati, Surya, and Rudra. . . . It is the dictates of Dharma that will sustain your life and raise your life to invincibility, raise your life to Moksha—freedom from bondage. . . .

‘I want to awaken India. It does not matter, time will do it. . . . I have created Raam Raj—”Vishva Vyapi Raam Raj.” That is “Vaidik Vishva Prashasan.” The government of the universe is run by Veda—Total Knowledge. The Atma of everyone is Total Knowledge, “Gyana Svaropa Atma”, self-referral consciousness, which Dr Hagelin calls the Unified Field, the self-referral Unified Field.

‘He found the self-referral Unified Field with all those mathematical equations. Being a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for so many years, and having been through the advanced techniques and the Yogic Flying programme, he knew how correct was his finding of the Unified Field, even though the experience of the Unified Field and the phenomenon of rising above the ground—getting above the ground against the force of gravity which always keeps everyone drawn to the ground—is not yet in the mathematical equations, because the entire numerical science is in the relative field. The absolute number is not yet in the current mathematics of the world.

‘The mathematics of the Unified Field is the mathematics governed by, conducted by, and run by the absolute number on the numbering side of it, and it is governed by the absolute language. Language has a meaning. A number is not based on meaning; a number is the number system—one, two, three, four, etc.

‘The absolute number is the guiding feature of the mathematics of the Constitution of the Universe. “The absolute language” means a language where every little phrase, every little syllable, and every little word has a total meaning—Total Knowledge—to deliver. This is absolute language, which is the language of the Veda. It is called, in the Vedic language, Nitya and Apaurusheya. “Nitya” means eternal; nothing can damage its real value. Whatever it is today, tomorrow, the next day, or the next, all the thousands of years past and future, it is indestructible, it is invincible. Only the absolute number calculates that, and only the absolute language describes it.

‘In order to live it in life, one needs the absolute level of consciousness which we have been teaching for fifty years. Transcendental Consciousness is the level where the absolute number is. It is the seat of Total Knowledge, the Veda. Now we want all our people in the world, all our world family, all the children, and all the students of student age everywhere to have this Total Knowledge. It is going to be there.

‘Countries have come with their aspirations and asked us, “What is your International University teaching?” We said, “We will not disturb your education.” This is very important good news, Dr Hagelin. Some country said, “Now we want to introduce your Consciousness-Based Education. What do we have to do?” I told them, “You do not have to do anything, and I do not have to do anything new. I will teach what I know, and you keep on teaching what you know. Only, give me about ninety minutes per day of your class time, whether it is a high school or a college or whatever. Give me ninety minutes a day, and I will make the whole purpose of your education very fruitful.”

‘The purpose of education is to create educated people. Educated people are people who will not make mistakes. The people will not make mistakes only when their mind is full of Total Knowledge. We will inspire in them, we will awaken in them, that consciousness which is a lively field of all knowledge. Then they will not make mistakes. When they do not make mistakes, they will not suffer. They will live in the light of God, they will satisfy their religion, and they will satisfy the purpose of their education.

‘We will not disturb them. Whatever you are teaching, you teach. Each day, give us ninety minutes. We will issue all the tapes which have been made for so many years, and all the charts which are there. Everything is there; we have to do nothing new.

‘Total Knowledge will be delivered on the level of conscious awareness. When the conscious awareness—that means the thinking mind, the deciding intellect, the feeling ego—is full of knowledge, then it will not go wrong, it will not make mistakes, it will not get into problems. Our Consciousness-Based knowledge and experience will provide you with problem-free life for the individual.

‘This is what we are offering to the education department of the government, and they have started to come on to it. It has taken fifty years, but now the door is open. It is very good news. The bright sunshine is dawning.

‘Dr Hagelin, you have launched this on the Fourth of July in the memory of the forefathers of America. You have given a very, very right tribute to reconstruct America. You will succeed because huge builders are there. You can get hold of a hundred or two hundred big, big builders, and start the programme to provide homes according to Sthapatya Veda and office buildings according to Sthapatya Veda.

‘This is such a great science. People do not know why their children are fighting in their own homes, and why one brother is not in a very good mood with the other brother living in the same family. This is due to the lack of proper orientation of the housing. The house is not properly oriented to the north, south, east, and west. There are ten or twelve values in Sthapatya Veda: the entrance should be in the east, and the slope should not be on the west or south. These are simple, simple things. But without knowing, architectural decency is taught in terms of this or that. Mostly, houses are not constructed according to Sthapatya Veda. It is a special science of architecture.

‘Here I will refer to what I said before about the absolute number and the absolute language. Why is language absolute? Because it expresses Total Knowledge. It is a language which does not leave behind anything, and which takes in everything together. “Everything” means the plus and minus together. The plus and minus together in the numerical system belongs only to the absolute number. Any amount of plus will not be able to add anything to it; any amount of minus will not be able to take out anything from it. That is zero—a zero. A zero is an absolute number—a zero—hollowness, unmanifest, the transcendental field of self-referral reality. It is nothing. That is an absolute number, from minus infinity to plus infinity.
 
‘ “A” is that absolute language where everything is centralized. Everything is centralized in this total language. All minuses of language, all pluses of language, all unity of language, all variety of language are in “A”. “A” is the first word of the Veda. In this is centralized total Veda and this means all knowledge. All knowledge means all knowledge of positivity, all knowledge of negativity, all knowledge of silence existing with all knowledge of dynamism.

‘With all dynamism and all silence, this is how the whole numerical system has to step onto a field where it can account for the absolute state of life in the midst of all diverse values. In the midst of all identifiable individualities and in the midst of all diversity, absolute silence coexists. This is Total Knowledge. This is the human awareness which is a lively field of all possibilities.

‘We have very beautiful appreciation for Dr Hagelin’s beautiful remarks. I would like the people to listen to Dr Hagelin’s exhortation—especially today’s—for the people to come out of suffering. In what other words could he speak? They are so simple, so simple.

‘Here is someone who is speaking Total Knowledge, who is acting Total Knowledge, and who has the rightful ambition to see this field of Total Knowledge be the incoming and outgoing breath of every civilization in our world family.’

Dr Hagelin: ‘Thank you so much, Maharishi, for this beautiful opening and for these very kind remarks. I wish I could trade my scientific language for Maharishi’s language with its all-nourishing effect, and which is so penetrating, so striking, and so enlivening that it has captured the hearts and minds of millions of people all over the world. We need more people who can speak just like Maharishi, and we will have an enlightened world.’ 

Question: The Rebuilding of America by the Peace Government

Dr Hagelin: ‘During Maharishi’s address to the Fourth of July press conference in Washington, D.C., Maharishi said that the US Peace Government would “rebuild America in harmony with Natural Law on many levels”, but would start first with the physical level of buildings in cities and towns. In what other ways will the Peace Government build America?’ 

Maharishi: ‘Building is a very physical thing. Just like the body which must be neat and clean and functioning properly, like that should be the home and the building of the home. Reconstruction of the home is a very physical thing. It has a deep influence on the reality of life, and then on the mental integrity, on the clarity of making decisions, on the pure wakefulness of the ego of the individual, and then on the wakefulness of the cosmic ego in the character of the individual ego. These are all the different levels that have to be reconstructed.

‘We have been working in the US and all countries for how many decades? Now is the time to come out openly with formulas for each of these physical, mental, intellectual, and existential values. We are being guided by the transcendental, eternal, immutable field of intelligence and energy, which cannot be dodged about by anything.

‘This being our basis, it is not a matter of our starting. We have been doing all these things now as an organization. We found that there are thousands of builders and developers who are working anyway. Architects are working anyway. There are codes of building; every state has its own building code. But when our people looked at the building codes and into all these different, different laws that govern the structures of the homes, we found they lack the insight into the reality of life. What level of reality? The reality of life that connects any phase of the individual with the phase of the cosmic structure.

‘Every individual life has a connection with cosmic life. The sun comes and every individual has some influence from it. The sun goes and every individual is influenced by it. All the cosmic phenomena, governed by someone, have their influence in the individual life. This connection of the individual with his own cosmic potential is important. The connection of the individual with the individual’s cosmic potential is very necessary to be maintained. It can only be maintained by coherence between the physiology, mind, intellect, ego, and cosmic ego.

‘This is what? These are different aspects of the knowledge of the Constitution of the Universe. These are different aspects of the law that connects the individual with his own cosmic potential. Cosmic potential is nothing far away from the individual potential. It is there, only the conscious mind is not open to it. As long as the conscious mind is not open to it, it might as well not be there. Like the treasury hidden underground, if he does not know, if he has not been told, if he has not gone into the treasury house, then it is non-existent for him.

‘Like that, the cosmic potential of the individual is within the individual potential. Anyone who says, “I”, it is the “I”, but whose “I”? The “I” is the voice of the Atma; “I” is the voice of the Self—“I”—Self, Self, Self, Self. The Self has its value in the individual domain which has space-time boundaries, and its absolute connectedness with the boundless, space-time boundary-free, transcendental field of consciousness.

‘It is just a matter of knowing what is there. The field of education is for this unfoldment of the knowledge which is behind sight, which is just behind sight. The whole field of education is very, very simple in the unfolding of the cosmic potential of the individual.

‘That is why we are asking all governments to give ninety minutes every day to us, and their cosmic potential will be raised. We will not raise the cosmic potential of your students; we will bring the students’ awareness to their own cosmic potential. Now they say, “Oh, I want to do this. How do I do it? I do not know what to do.” But in a year or two years, after having gone through this consciousness-based knowledge of Transcendental Consciousness and the experience of Transcendental Consciousness, when the thought comes, “How can I do this?” they say, “Oh, this is how I will do it.” Nothing will remain difficult for them. Nothing will remain unachieved by them. This is what we would like our children to do. This is a beautiful thing.’

Question: The Effects of Sthapathya Veda

Dr Hagelin: ‘Thank you very much, Maharishi. This next question comes from a television station that would like to air Maharishi’s response on the same subject of the reconstruction of America. The question is: Why move? Maharishi, why should a home owner immediately pack up and move his family to a Vedic home? What will be the benefits? How will it change the day-to-day life of his family?’ 

Maharishi: ‘How will it change? It will change life in the same way as when one has been living in darkness or semi-darkness, and the lamp comes. It is a different kind of living. All kinds of inhibitions in one’s own thinking are due to wrong orientation of the housing. If the entrance is not in the east, if it is tilted like that, or if the entrance is in the south, there can be very great calamities.

‘Dr Eike has investigated into the whole depth of this science of Vedic Architecture, Sthapatya Veda. He has a great amount of literature which he is going to supply to all our centres everywhere in the world and to all the builders.

‘When they are building homes, this sense of modern architecture has different criteria. Governmental rules, where you construct like this or like that, have their own reasoning, but that reasoning belongs to human understanding, human logic, human vision.

‘Sthapatya Veda has that logic which is constructed through the absolute number and is always the same, never convertible, never changeable. Authenticity belongs to something that is stable. Authenticity does not belong to something that is right today here or wrong tomorrow there.

‘The whole performance of every government in the world today is very precarious. It is only the blind leading the blind. I am not criticizing the government. I am only informing the world press to tell their dear governments that they must rise to adopt this total field of Vedic Knowledge in order to successfully play their parental role for their people. Otherwise, whoever the president is, he may change his cabinet today, he may change his cabinet tomorrow. He can keep on changing and changing until he himself is changed by the people, because the people are not satisfied. The people will never be satisfied by any government until the government has the support of the government of the universe, which is always evolutionary to everyone.

‘There is a government which we know to be the government of the universe. The government of the universe is always supportive and evolutionary to everyone. This government of the universe is seated within the self-referral Unified Field, the Atma of everyone. Here is the seat of that almighty government, and education should be able to give to every student the awareness of this government, the constitution of this government.

‘I think we are going to do it, irrespective. Nobody is satisfied in the world, neither those who are governing—that means the members of any government are not satisfied—nor the people who are governed by the government. Our word going around will depend on how soon the world press can really ring our proper message to the people. Ring it and ring it and ring it and ring it in whatever language they can understand. Otherwise, governments have been changing anyway; everything will change anyway.

‘It does not matter what government is today, or which man. It is very, very wrong and very pitiable for the press to give importance to what an individual says. It is not the individual. It is the principle that is important and that will take the boat of life to the shore. It is not the individual. . . .

[Maharishi speaks in Hindi for two minutes.]

‘India is a Vedic country. Sthapatya Veda is a very great science of life. I have been telling the Indian government for how many years, twenty years, but they are continuing to struggle there. They like to struggle with each other. As long as these parliament buildings and the working places of the government are not built or not rebuilt according to Vastu, no one can expect anything peaceful or harmonious or progressive from the government.

‘Ask the press, Dr Hagelin, to ask every head of state to find out the orientation of their government buildings. Find out if their buildings are in proper orientation with the dictates of Vastu Vidya. If not, for the sake of God and for your own sake and for the sake of the people, begin to live in proper Vastus. Very quickly reconstruct your capitals and demolish your old buildings. Think as if an earthquake has come and gone, and what will you do tomorrow? Go by this logic or continue to ramble on until you go out. The next generation is going to rebuild all the working places of the governments. Then there will be alliance with the cosmic potential of life, with the individual potential of life, and with the national potential of life.

‘Our joy is that we are going to do it, and very quickly we are going to do it, because now we are asking those whose profession it is to build. We are asking the builders and developers of the world to build and develop. Quickly, quickly, inform the people they should rush out of their non-Vastu homes and quickly rebuild Vastu homes everywhere. We are engaging professionals who will work for their profession. And what will we have? A rebuilt nation, a rebuilt India.

‘It is very beautiful. Dr Hagelin, ask the Minister of Finance and Planning of the Global Country to speak. He told me he has some very good plans for engaging all the professional builders of the world in every country. Within six months, we should be able to demolish a lot of rubbish. He is going to stabilize the influence of cosmic character.’