19 July 2006 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. I can only endorse all that Dr John Hagelin has expressed to the people about the principle on which the experience of integrated national consciousness is based. Dr Hagelin has explained this in his simple words of the physical sciences—he has expressed all that. And I have only to endorse what he has said.

‘It is a great satisfaction to me that all this was promised through this simple, innocent technique of Transcendental Meditation. In the beginning, fifty years ago, I started the Movement world-wide with the hope that the knowledge is so simple, and people are intelligent, and when they hear it, they will adopt it. And when they adopt it practically, they will be better human beings, their desires will be satisfied, and they will not have to go through challenges or through problems in their lives. With this intention, I started the Movement.

‘Now today, I find that nations—not only the individuals, but the collection of individuals as a nation—have expressed the hope that I had fifty years ago. The group dynamics of Transcendental Meditation Programme create a collective consciousness which is more positive than before, more coherent—a more healthy, wealthy, and wise consciousness. All together, it is now leading to the exalted level of invincibility.

‘It is my very great joy to tell the world press now, through Dr Hagelin, that in the world now it is only a matter of some children in every country—maybe three hundred children, maybe four hundred children—in their student age practising what they have come to learn in the schools. Intelligence—they practise intelligence, their own consciousness. And they feel so uplifted in that experience of Transcendental Consciousness. They feel bliss. With a few dives into the bliss, into the region of bliss—we would like to say, into the ocean of bliss—every student comes out to be completely fresh. He is no more exhausted; he is no more tired. He is fresh. With this freshness, being his common experience each day in his school during the practice of Transcendental Meditation, he is renewed every day, he feels his thoughts are honoured by Natural Law. His desires begin to be fulfilled.

‘Now this has been seen in the case of one country, Holland, where the Yogic Flyers came. It was suddenly experienced that the quality of Dutch consciousness changed into positivity, into more happiness, into more integration. Dr Gelderloos is guiding the Movement in Holland. In our organization, he has the position of the Prime Minister of the Raja of Holland. He sees in the press, day after day, day after day, every twenty-four hours, that there is a rise of positivity in the national consciousness.

‘Holland is the same country it was a few months ago, but the national consciousness has been transformed by positivity. There was nothing new happening in the country, except that four hundred people from outside countries came, and they did their Transcendental Meditation Programme together. Except for this phenomenon, there was no other evidence that the people of Holland were different in their collective consciousness. But just this thing—that the four hundred people were practising Yogic Flying together—brought a measure of transformation of national consciousness in a concrete way. From all negativity, the national consciousness now shows the evidence of positivity rising in economy, in social behavior, in everything that has been recorded as a transformation.

‘It has been about three months now that the increasing positivity has not stopped; it is more and more and more. Dr Gelderloos tells me that Prime Ministers from other countries are asking the Prime Minister of Holland, “What you have done? What you have done these one, two, three months? You have a different level of economy, a different level of positivity in the country.” This is the evidence of the success of a small group of Yogic Flyers.

‘Yogic Flying is an advanced technique of Transcendental Meditation; it is simple. When the body lifts up in Yogic Flying, it lifts up by the desire of the mind. The mind whispers a few words within itself—we call them sutras . It is a technique, but just the whisper of a few words, and the body lifts up. And when the body lifts up, it is a huge transformation in the nature of self-referral consciousness. The self-referral consciousness comes to the cosmic level of consciousness, where all the galaxies are floating in empty space. The galaxies floating in the empty space is exactly the same phenomenon—“exactly” underlined—exactly the same state of individual consciousness. The individual is on a level of cosmic intelligence. The individual is functioning on a level of the cosmic Constitution of the Universe. He is the commander of that Total Natural Law which governs the universe.

‘This is just the simple interpretation. It is just the simple interpretation that the environment of the individual rises to a level of cosmic intelligence. It is active on the level of cosmic intelligence. And cosmic intelligence is that which is always supportive to the evolution of everyone. The evolution of everyone is a natural phenomenon. This is the perspective. This is the vision of the transformation that comes about in the individual’s consciousness during his programme of Yogic Flying and produces the result.

‘The Vedic Expression about this says that when one is familiar with this level of operation, then everything is done by Total Natural Law. This is the ability that we have achieved in our world-wide teaching programme. Take the student’s individual consciousness to a level of cosmic consciousness, to a level of that infinite intelligence, creative intelligence—infinite creative intelligence.

‘A few people now have demonstrated the transformation of the national consciousness. There are thirty countries in the Movement where more than the required number of people have been located to be practising this alone in their homes. Now what we have to do is to inform them that instead of doing it in their homes, they should come together and fly in a hall. When three, four hundred people come and fly in a hall in their city, anywhere, they will be the founders of invincibility and permanent sovereignty for their nation. Otherwise, nations are fighting with nations, and there are all these disturbances. One country pounces on the other, either economically or by force. All these fears will be completely eliminated in a quiet manner, just by groups flying together in small numbers.

‘What we have to do is just see how long these Yogic Flyers take to come to fly in a group in their cities. Only that much time will be needed to declare invincibility for every nation. Now invincibility is at hand. Within a few days, within a few weeks, wherever the individual flyers—three, four hundred flyers—begin to fly together, they will be founding invincibility in their country. They may not understand the word “invincibility” now, because invincibility is a very rare phenomenon, but this will be the experience.

‘So it is just a matter of a few days. See how many days these people take to come together in a hall or two, anywhere, and then to fly together—three, four hundred people in one place; or two hundred people in two places; one hundred and fifty or two hundred some other place. Like that, it is just small numbers of people quietly floating in bliss in their own experience. During the flying, the body lifting up brings a big upsurge of bliss inside. It is a blissful thing.

‘Everybody takes to Yogic Flying because of this experience of bliss. Nobody bothers about the experience of invincibility. But for one’s own bliss, for our own awareness floating in bliss, everyone takes to Yogic Flying. And then they enjoy bliss in their life, and invincibility of the nation is a side effect of these three, four hundred individuals floating in bliss consciousness.

‘Invincibility, which is free from all negativity and fear, is the prime goal of every government. In this case, the goal will be achieved by the two, three, four hundred citizens of the country as a side effect. Just understand what I am saying: this a side effect of three or four hundred people experiencing bliss, their behaviour floating in bliss, experiencing bliss, floating in bliss. It is just for this personal experience of bliss that they will come together. And they will soon come together. And this will be the founding of invincibility.

‘ “The founding of invincibility” means that there is a challenge to the entire military force. Whatever missiles they have will remain there. There will be no bursting of missiles; there will be no bursting of bombs, because there will be coherence. There will be coherence in the national consciousness.

‘Therefore, here is a challenge to all those mischief-monger nations in the world—the Nature will tell them, “Shut up.” They will be in possession of all the bombs and all that, but no bomb will burst. The atmosphere will not allow them to bomb. There are countries—everybody knows—who are destroyers of the world. Their life is to be just a few days, a few weeks, or a few months until our Yogic Flyers come together to fly in their states. All these mischief-mongers, all these ammunition creators, all these great politicians of the world will be doomed to nothing. They are doomed to nothing, that is all. Just a few weeks, or one or two months—that is all. That is all that is necessary.

‘This is the power of cosmic intelligence. This is the play of the Constitution of the Universe. This is the play of the enlightened wise of this generation, functioning from the transcendental level of their consciousness and quietly eliminating all kinds of negativity in the world. You will see, you will see peace—just a few weeks or a few months, something like that.

‘And see how scientifically, how simply, Dr Hagelin has been explaining this to you. This is the light of knowledge. Whatever science developed, the light of knowledge went into the negative side of it—the destructive side. But now, you will see the silence come up—the silence come up. Silence will rule the world. Total Natural Law will rule the world. Light of God will rule the world.

‘See how many days and weeks it takes. Dr Hagelin, make a prediction [laughter] about how many days, how many weeks or months the world press will have to count. We have a programme now, because one country has shown this. We have shown this. Now we are not satisfied with one country. We want to add a zero to the country. One—we want to add zero to one, and another zero to one. We want every country to enjoy these blessings of the divine intelligence, the blessings of God, the blessings of Guru Dev, which came to us in such a nice, simple manner. Doing absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing, not even thinking. Finer and finer and finer—nothing doing, even thinking finer and finer and finer, and even transcending the finest thinking. Not even doing, not even thinking, just Being. And this is the ocean of bliss. It is the experience.

‘So experience bliss and radiate the Will of God—radiate this around. Inside bliss, outside bliss—this is the world that is coming up.’

Dr Hagelin: ‘Yes, Jai Guru Dev. Maharishi, thank you for that absolutely exquisite report—this outpouring of knowledge. It is so vitally important that this remarkable dissertation by Maharishi has been captured on video for all times and will be available for replay tonight at www.MOU.org and the Maharishi Channel, and thereafter available, because this exquisite expression of the profound knowledge and practical principles of the implementation of that knowledge is the foundation for a whole new world—a world that is dawning today—and must not be missed by the press.’ 

Maharishi: ‘It is such a joy to see that our world family—near us or far away from us, in any part of the globe—our world family is stepping on to a level of blissful living. It is such a joy to see it happening.

‘Dr Hagelin, you have been so successful creating these waves of bliss in the world press. You must be feeling very, very happy. It is not year after year or month after month anymore now, but week after week, and day after day, day after day. Ask the world press to enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.’