12 July 2006 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. There is nothing for me to say; it is now for the press to see what has been created. Now, next week and the next weeks, as Dr Hagelin has announced, thirty countries in the world are rising to that effectiveness where negativity will not be found.

‘It is not a matter of the future; it is a matter of the past. The world has begun to be a better world, a united world—a better world in every way. And every day, and every week now, new aspects of that betterment will be witnessed. It is all on the basis of what we are saying. We are not saying this anymore on the basis of hope. We have been saying for the last many, many months and many years that “This will happen; this will happen.” Now we are saying, “This is happening; this is happening; this is happening.” And what is not yet happening will happen from today—it will happen tomorrow; it will happen the next day. It is such a beautiful thing.

‘I want to say that this is how God intended life when he started to design life. All the scriptures of the world, all religions, say, “Man was made in the image of God—image of God.” Now we see how man is made in the image of God. And he is rising above that cloud in which the knowledge of it was sunk. Now, in this scientific knowledge age, all the knowledge is unfolded. And what is happening is what should have happened right from the beginning, when God designed man and creation.

‘It is such a joy. It is no more a hope; it is a present vision. Now you can see what life should be, and you will see every day what life will be. So many new things are there every day, every day. The press should hear Dr Gelderloos from Holland tell what is happening in his country. And the press should hear from our Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, who is designing the turnkey operation for Heaven on Earth now. . . .

‘The press should enjoy Heaven on Earth. It is a delightful thing. It is a thing of the present. You see, you see, you see. I only can express the joy of this beautiful technique of learning how to think and create. You do not have to do hard work to begin anything. Just learn how to think; learn how to think in silence. Learn how to think in silence, and that thought will create whatever you want.

‘That is why it is simple for everyone. Otherwise, in the world you have to work hard. And all education is to put the students to work, to work, to work, to achieve. No, no, no. Now the education will be: think and achieve—not work to achieve, but think and achieve.

‘This is the natural consequence of the knowledge of Total Natural Law that has been unfolded. The law is nothing new; only, it was lost to human awareness. And now, with this, the human awareness has it. It has eliminated all the hardship for any man to achieve what he wants to achieve. No hardship, no hard work to achieve. Close the eyes and think, and the thought will blossom into achievement. This is life on earth which is sung in terms of Heaven on Earth. . . .

‘Invite the press to enjoy, Dr John Hagelin. You are setting up your Government of World Peace. And this is what is happening: already, heaven has started to descend. All achievements will be from the level of the mind thinking on the most blissful level of the thinking process, which is the source of thought in the transcendent. It is happening; it is happening; it is happening. Let the world press see it and enjoy. Jai Guru Dev.’ 

Question: The Starting Age for Students at Invincibility Schools

Dr Hagelin: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Maharishi has said that Invincibility Schools are now being established in every country to create groups of Yogic Flyers in order raise each country to invincibility. This questions come from a parent who is interested in sending his child to one of these schools: Will the Invincibility School be for young children in elementary schools or middle schools, or for teenagers in high schools, or for older college-age students?’ 

Maharishi: ‘Middle-school age will be enough. Twelve, thirteen years—from there we can start a simple closing of the eyes and seeing—closing the eyes, seeing. Twelve, thirteen, fourteen years—from there we can start. The whole society is run by those over the age of say, twenty-two. By that time these people—about one tenth of the population of a country—will be thinking from that level which is a million times more effective.

‘As you said, Dr Hagelin, the process of thinking is what makes the action succeed or fail. If the thinking is more profound at its base, then the action will bring the results quickly—quick, quick results. All the obstacles and all that are because the root of thought, the basis of thinking, is not proper. Like that, you can keep on watering different parts of the tree, but unless you water the root, you do not nourish the whole tree.

‘Thinking from the transcendental level is like thinking from the very basis of thought. Thinking from the very basis of thought will be like watering the root and supplying nourishment to all aspects of the tree; otherwise, you keep on supplying water to the leaf, to the branch, to here, there—all the surface values—and it won’t be from the basic value of the tree. Like that, in the school age, every child must be educated in how to think. This is Consciousness-Based Education—how to think. When you know how to think, then you know how to manipulate the thought. The thinking level is a very, very profound level of life. From there, life will be life lived in waves of bliss.

‘So world press, continue now in the waves of bliss.’

Question: The Curriculum of Invincibility Schools

Dr Hagelin: ‘Jai Guru Dev, Maharishi. Perhaps, if it is all right, there is a quick follow-up question from the same parent about the curriculum of the Invincibility Schools. Will Yogic Flying be the primary focus for the students, or will students also have a course of study that includes traditional academic disciplines, such as the arts and sciences, or practical training in business, law, or information technology, etc.?’

Maharishi: ‘The whole thinking process is very, very damaging to the creativity of the boys. At an early age, the sense of examination is a horror to the boys. And every three months, it is a horror—a wave of horror. That whole thing is very, very wrong. This is because the forgetting of what one has learned is very, very natural. In our theme of Consciousness-Based Education, what consciousness is comes to be experienced. Fine levels of consciousness become a part and parcel of the thinking process.

‘This thinking process is just the process in the unmanifest field of intelligence—in the transcendental field of intelligence. There is the total creativity. So acquaintance or conscious awareness of the basic value of creativity makes creativity lively in the mind. So whatever one thinks, creativity will be lively.

‘This technique is what will make the boys know what they should do and what they should not do. This will make them naturally not waste time in their life. Every moment of life is so precious. And this preciousness can be valued, basically, only during these early years of study—how to know a thing, how to know a thing, how to do a job.

‘Doing the job is more tiring on the sensory level, on the behavioural level. But it is more blissful on the thinking level, on the deciding level of the intellect, on the experiencing level of the ego—it is all bliss, bliss, bliss. So the whole education has not been very proper. Now it will be proper.’

Question: The Knowledge of the Golden Age

Dr Hagelin: ‘Thank you very much. Maharishi had said that the dawning Age of Enlightenment is bringing fulfilment to the aspiration of the wise throughout the ages for permanent world peace. Indeed, for millennia, saints and sages of all religions and spiritual traditions have had revelations or cognitions of a Golden Age that they predicted would come at this particular moment in history—the very Sat Yuga that Maharishi is creating now, as we speak. My question is this: How did these saints and sages of antiquity all know this? How did they all know that the Golden Age, or Sat Yuga, would come now?’ 

Maharishi: ‘The thing is set. There is a proverb: “Nothing is new under the sun.” So there is the best time of full enlightenment, then gradually eighty percent of it, fifty percent of it, five percent of it, zero percent of it, and from zero it rises. This is the relative expression of the absolute reality. It is only in the human awareness; it is only in the human awareness. The total value of bliss is there, but it becomes less and it becomes more in the human awareness. That is what makes time and space values.

‘The whole thing is nothing new—nothing new. The olden times are nothing new. There have been olden times many times, many times, in the infinity of time. There have been olden times, time after time, in the infinity of time. There is nothing new. It is only a matter of opening the awareness—human awareness.

‘Human awareness—you open it, and then you know everything, and you are all right. You close yourself to it, and you get into the ditch—darkness. There is nothing new; there is nothing new.

‘All these times, different times, are counted in the Vedic Literature: Sat Yuga, Treta, Dwapara, Kali Yuga—all hundred percent bliss, seventy-five percent bliss, fifty percent bliss, and twenty-five percent bliss. These are the degrees—degrees of bliss. These are like the degrees of darkness. These are the degrees of light. And they are all set; they are all set.’