9 March 2005 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. I was listening with a great interest to Dr Hagelin's introductory remarks. This week, more than the previous, what you have expressed is the response of the press to the message. The press, from now on, week after week, will have more interesting inputs in the world news. This will be because we are now directly contacting all the governments, including the Indian government, the Chinese government, Russia, and all the small governments of the world. The world press will start to receive which government begins today, this week, and which governments tomorrow, next week. Week after week, we expect governments after governments to start the programme to create invincibility in their countries.
 
‘I am telling the governments that it is not a matter of them understanding what invincibility means and what invincibility can be produced from. No. They do not have to understand. It is obvious they do not have invincibility. And when they do not have it, we cannot expect them to have the knowledge of it. They do not have the knowledge of it, so we cannot expect them to know about it.
 
‘We are telling them, “Do not waste time in knowing.” I am telling them that when a government wants to build a bridge—a two-mile-long bridge over the river from here to there—what do they do? They ask the companies, “Who will build it?” Some company says, “We will build this.” Then they contract with the company. When they contract with the company, they do not contract with the company on the basis of their knowledge of how the company will build the bridge. No. They are not engineers and are not competent even to ask the engineering company how they will build. If they ask the engineering company—any engineering minister of any country—he will welcome them for ten years of training in some engineering college. There they would learn how to bend and how to put the screw here and the bolt here and nut there and this and that.
 
‘I am telling them, “Do not try to understand me. Do not try to understand the philosophy, the principle of it. Your concern is with the purpose. You can contract with my universities to rise to invincibility. That means you want to be free from enemies.” Enemies are negative trends in life, all negativity, all lack of complete knowledge in health, in education, in defence, in every area of human concern, in every area of national concern.
 
‘Invincibility is a rare commodity. Invincibility in the world market is a very rare commodity. But I am telling them, “I have it in my shop; you can buy it from here.” This is what it means: you spend all the expenditure that is necessary to train those groups in your country, and your own people will be trained. For that, you engage them and give them proper housing according to Sthapatya Veda, according to Natural Law. They should live under the protection of Natural Law. They will be trained to practise total Natural Law, which will make them capable of doing anything. This will be the level of invincibility of the nation.
 
‘Every government should be invincible. No government is invincible. Therefore, since this week, I am reaching directly to the governments. I know it is hard for them to understand. It is hard for them to understand, in the same way as when someone says, “I would like to design a flight to the moon.” The government says, “All right. It seems to be impossible, we do not believe you can do it, but you can have this money, and you can have this certificate—whatever you want. You try to build the flight to the moon.”
 
‘Experimentation and research are very well known government policies and practices. I am asking the government, “Go by the same practice and gain invincibility.” I have been telling them that I am not new in the world. For fifty years, the whole thing has been proved, but is not that I am proving it for fifty years. India has been proving it for all generations. For millions of years, India has been using those techniques, which are the techniques of the Constitution of the Universe.
 
‘The Constitution of the Universe is that collection of laws which is capable of maintaining unified wholeness of all the infinite variety of laws. How beautifully in today’s introduction, and in every introduction every week, Dr Hagelin explains to everyone all these different levels of creation—atomic, nuclear, subatomic—and all those beautiful explanations. Now, it is possible for any head of state to cash in on invincibility. More than that I cannot say.
 
‘ “The taste of the pudding is in the eating”: this is a very ancient phrase. On the other side, I am informing the government point blank that they are not competent to defend their nation. They are not competent to offer prevention-oriented health programmes to their people. Again, they are not competent to develop the functioning of the full brain. They are not competent to produce all the nutrients in the crops that they grow in the fields. That means in every area of responsibility, every government is completely ignorant of functioning from a good level of satisfaction. This being the situation of every government, I am telling them, “That it does not matter; there is a technique which is called invincibility. You use it, you develop it, and all the different deficiencies in your administration will be fulfilled.” 

‘This I have started to deliver at the door of every government. I have only to see whose fortune is strong enough to be first, second, third, and fourth. When one, two, three governments pick it up, all will follow—absolutely all will follow. Each one would be thinking, “Who has done it? Who has done it?” I say it is not a matter of governments seeing whether some government is becoming invincible or not, whether someone is becoming invincible or not. For such curious people I have an answer: try to be invincible yourself. Even if no one else can become invincible, you can become invincible.
 
‘I am approaching every government. It is a very great joy. I am approaching them with great sympathy, with great love, with great kindness, with great cordiality, with great respectfulness. I consider these all to be my family members. I know every family member has a different character than the other family members, but nevertheless it is a family. The family of all nations must be with different characteristic qualities. But nevertheless, the parental role of a government must belong to every government. . . .
 
‘We have to see that our world has our knowledge, in our time, and everyone is peaceful, happy, fulfilled, free from problems, and free from sicknesses—all this. It is our responsibility.

‘It is like children who do not understand what to do and why doing something will be harmful. It is the parental role that protects them from doing wrong. It is a parental role. Now mark this thing which I am going to elaborate. It is a parental role that makes them and prepares them not to face undue things—not to face negativity. Like that, we are the custodians of that knowledge which is the Total Knowledge of the law, Natural Law, the Constitution of the Universe, which manages the infinite diversity of the galactic, ever-expanding universe—perpetually growing, growing, growing. We have that knowledge, and with that knowledge, we think it is completely within our reach to have all our children, all our family members in the world, face no disasters in the future. For that, we are knocking at the door. Take the invincibility; this will do you good.
 
‘We are handing over our packet of invincibility to the governments. It is not a closed packet, but an open packet. We are knocking at the door of every government out of kindness, out of love for them. They are unnecessarily suffering. It is like when someone is suffering from cold or cough or something, someone who has a tablet is desperate to give him the tablet. “Take this tablet and you will feel relief.” It is natural for the possessor of the tablet to give it to him.
 
‘That is like our position. This position is the nature of everyone—the nature of kindness. The parental role puts everyone in the light of God. There are so many different fields of knowledge: all religious knowledge, all scientific knowledge, all knowledge of faith, and all different packets of knowledge. Each field of knowledge is provided to the people out of kindness.
 
‘I am saying this to remove the doubt from anyone that there is any malicious intention in my offering invincibility to every nation. I know, if world peace is to be there, world peace can only be when all the countries are invincible. When every country is invincible, then only could world peace be permanent. World peace will always be fragile as long as all the countries have not risen to invincibility.
 
‘Therefore, all those who want to be in the company of others in all these different groups of countries—ten countries make a group there, twenty countries make a group there, ten, twenty, thirty, forty countries—have their own rules and make their own constitutions. All these different countries together are in the same spirit that in togetherness there is safety. But in every group—take any group of countries, either in the East or West—some people are always grumbling that “This country, being a big country, is bossing over us.” In every one of these unions of five, ten countries here and there, even in this European Union and all that, the intention is good to be together and feel safe. But the technique to be together is not natural. It is humanly made—a human concept. Human concepts will always have human weaknesses and human failings.
 
‘That is why the unity of small groups of governments or single governments, which are all being governed by man-made constitutions, are the football of circumstances. They are not the master of their destiny. I bring them the light of mastery over time, over space. I bring to them the authority from the transcendental field—from that field which is all over, everywhere, always, and can never be disturbed, can never be changed, can never be challenged. This is that invincibility which no one can disturb. This is what I am going to, gently or forcefully and gently-forcefully and naturally [laughter], be offering to my countries here and there in their own interest.
 
‘It is beautiful. India has this knowledge; India has this knowledge—the Veda, the Constitution of the Universe—in Vedanta, in Upaveda, etc. The whole Vedic Literature is just the reverberation—that means different values of the sounds—of the unmanifest field of eternity, unmanifest transcendental field of eternity, which in itself is eternally sustained in its infinite, eternal silence, endowed with infinite, eternal dynamism—Totality.
 
‘How beautifully we heard today from Dr Hagelin and Dr Morris, “Purnat Purnam Udachyate.” This is the voice of that eternally self-contained, self-sustained, self-perpetuating field of total Natural Law, the light of God. When we say “the light of God”, we enjoy such beautiful emotions—“the light of God”.

‘In this scientific age, it is available to us without doubt—straight, without doubt. It is available to us in terms of knowledge; it is available to us in terms of the transformation of knowledge into action; it is available to us in action; it is available to us in the transformation of action into the fruit of all action. From knowledge to action to the fruit of all action: all the three are completely available in the state of invincibility. That is why we offer this to governments and make the governments capable of anything and everything.
 
‘Every government in my world will be an administrator of all possibilities in its own right. No matter what language you speak, it is a matter of speaking. The words will be different, but the content will be total. And the life will be the flow of that Totality: “Purnat Purnam Udachyate.”
 
‘It is not a matter of finding the people who know it; it is a matter of educating the people. The situation in the world makes it very clear that no government and no constitution of any country has competence to prevent problems. The prevention of problems is the only way to end the problem.
 
‘People are searching for the solution for those who commit the crimes and all that. But then where is the solution? The solution lies in educating the people to function in full accord with total Natural Law. Action has to be natural, as natural action alone will always be in full accord with two values, infinite silence and infinite dynamism.
 
‘It is such a joy to give this to our world and the world of all times now. We are building all these thousands of Peace Palaces in the world and creating administrators of Peace Palaces—Rajas. The Rajas we have created in the field are creating a wonderful influence. Now it will not be long that the world continues with undesirable problems, failings, sufferings, sickness, and cries. No, no—the world is going to have and be a big laughter, a big laughter in bliss, bliss laughter in bliss. Natural Law, the Unified Field, will laugh. What will it laugh into? It will laugh into the light of God.
 
‘All the religious, holy scriptures are going to be fulfilled. From where are they going to be fulfilled? From the base of them all. “Religion” means to go back to find the source. To go back to find the source is, practically, Transcendental Meditation, and the proof of it is in the Yogic Flying technique.
 
‘The effect of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme, including Yogic Flying, is to enliven the greatest power of Nature. What is the greatest power? The greatest unifying power, the greatest power of gravity, puts things together. It puts the abstract, unmanifest field of knowledge and different fields of knowledge together in the unmanifest. All manifestations, all the diversity of manifestations—the always increasing, galactic universe—are always kept coherent. It is always in the unity state: versified, unified, versified universe, versified uni-versi—unity, versity, unity, diversity—together, as it is.
 
‘One has to be simple to be perfect. Simplicity is more natural to one than complexity. When one wants to manipulate this and that, it is so complicated; one gets tired all the time. Simplicity is simple, truthfulness—simple.
 
‘Our offer is nothing strange, nothing out of the way. It is on the most simple level of the nature of life. Whether life is silent totally, or in small fluctuations or big activity, it is completely natural to be holistic, even in every state of the unified expression or the single expression of the Unified Field. It is a beautiful field of knowledge; it is a beautiful field of experience; it is a beautiful field of action; it is a beautiful field of freedom.
 
‘We are asking all governments to learn how to govern. We will not dismantle all the knowledge that they have. All the presidents are 50, 60, 70, 80, or 90 years of age. We say, “Yes, Honorable”. People have elected them to be president. The president has selected some scientists, physiologists, doctors, and lawyers to run the whole thing. It is a mutual, friendly feeling that structures a government. All the authority is lovingly transferred from one level to the second level, third level, fourth level. But the whole thing is lacking in some holistic reality due to the lack of knowledge and due to the lack of health, lack of prosperity, and lack of Totality. Now we are telling them, “Take it and be happy it is there. It is your own right; it is your birthright.”. . .

‘Every week, we hope we will be announcing that a country has accepted to be invincible—every week a few countries. There are about 200 countries. If every week twenty countries come up, even then it will take ten months, one year. But why allow our world to continue to suffer for a year? 

‘Every week we can expect more than twenty, thirty countries. Every day we expect three, four, five e-mails to come saying, “Yes, you are welcome to raise invincibility in my population; you are welcome to raise invincibility. We gave out your programme.” We say, “All right, that many people of your country will be trained.”

‘In order to have support from the field of knowledge, there is more—something very precious—which we will use from the Indian Pandits, from the Vedic Pandits. They are the families in India who have preserved all the Vedic wisdom by the Vedic oral tradition. The whole thing is kept quite a lot in purity.
 
‘We will engage some of those people, along with many hundreds or thousands of the local people in every country. We will put them together. All these are the nuts and bolts of the field of higher consciousness to create higher consciousness. Then the nation will rise in that level which will be very coherent inside, very harmonious inside. No enemies will be born. Then, the country will be saved from all these foreign influences. No foreign influence with any malicious intention will be able to penetrate the country. . . .
   
‘Every government is prone to influence from every other government. And no government can prevent it. . . . We say, “Now, come on, rise to invincibility.” That is not through fighting but through quietly changing the quality of consciousness. The collective consciousness of a group of a hundred, two hundred, or a thousand, two thousand people, depending on the number of the population of the country, will have an intense influence of harmony and coherence that will naturally pervade the whole field of national consciousness, collective consciousness. Then no enemy, no wrong person will be inside the country, and from outside the country, no enemy, no destructive influence will be able to come into that very strong coherence of the national consciousness.
 
‘This is a very, very safe and steady thing to do, and we are offering it to governments. We are trying to express it in such simplicity because it is a new thing, it is a huge thing—invincibility. Who can think it is possible? Invincibility: “How can I be invincible?” When one hears the word “invincible”, one remembers Hitler. At one time, he was invincible. Today he is invincible; tomorrow, he falls into disaster.

‘Invincibility based on muscular strength or physical strength—the strength of arms, the strength of killing—is no safety to any nation. No military can say that they can really save the country. In spite of that, knowing that, so much of the wealth of the nation is being spent in entertaining a military, and all that a military is—a fearful thing. . . .
 
‘There is a way to favour Natural Law and know that Natural Law is always evolutionary. If you favour Natural Law, and use Natural Law at the door of defence, you will not be required to kill the enemy, and always, you will be safe. You will be free from the problem of enemies. . . . You can be real administrators who will prevent problems for yourself. This is the kind of government we are going to create.
 
‘Welcome, all governments. Do it early; do it today. Do not wait until tomorrow for it. Use the present.’

Question: Raising Man-made Constitutions to the Status of the Constitution of the Universe

Dr Hagelin: ‘Last week Maharishi made a strong point in saying that man-made constitutions, with all their human weaknesses and failings, are the cause of all problems in government. The solution, Maharishi said, is for such man-made constitutions to be supported and supplemented by the eternal Constitution of the Universe, which administers the vast universe with perfect order. Maharishi, the journalist asks: What change in the man-made governments and man-made constitutions—what amendments to the constitutions—could raise man-made constitutions and man-made governments to the status of the Constitution of the Universe?’ 

Maharishi: ‘Man-made constitutions cannot be turned into the Cosmic Constitution. Only the people being driven by man-made constitutions can fathom, through their morning and evening Vedic programmes, the transcendental field and the Cosmic Constitution on the individual level. The fruits of that can create a widespread influence of the Cosmic Constitution.
 
‘The Cosmic Constitution means Sattva. Sattva means coherence. Coherence means orderly thinking. Orderly thinking means thinking according to Natural Law, thinking according to the power of evolution of Natural Law.
 
‘Man-made constitutions say, “Now you are going on the road; now you will turn left, and now you turn right.” All these are humanly conceived laws to govern human life. But the mind governing, intellect governing, and ego governing can be on the level of the Constitution of the Universe so that spontaneously what one thinks is adopted by total Natural Law, by Prakriti and Purusha.
 
‘The whole terminology of explanation is there in the Vedic Literature. It is in this that we train the people. It is not transforming the man-made constitution into this, but taking away the deficiencies in the man-made constitution and making the purpose of the constitution to be always in the advancing, in the progressing, in the evolving direction.
 
‘It is a different technology. The present technology of only the laws of the country is based on punishment and police and military. Some laws engage the people and give them some money, others detain them and do not give them money. All this is on a very relative field of operation. But the Constitution of the Universe is on a more basic level of consciousness. Consciousness is trained to be completely familiar with Natural Law, total Natural Law, by transcending and going beyond space and time. There in the self-referral field of the Unified Field is the whole Vedic Literature of the Itihasa, Puranas, Smritis, and Shrutis. It is a beautiful sequentially evolved literature of the Constitution of the Universe.
 
‘Somewhere, sometime, someone, some press man asked me, “Is the Constitution always written?” I said, “Yes, it must be written so that people can read it and know it and pass it on to others.” And he said, “Where is the written Constitution of the Universe?” And I said, “Yes, you have not been told. It is called Veda, the Vedic Literature.”
 
‘Veda—Shruti, Smriti—has its own terminology. Every field of knowledge has its own terminology from its gross value to subtle value to subtler value. This is how science has been probing into finer and finer values. Now science has come on the unified level. This unified level is so fine that it is the reality which puts the two things together—dynamism and silence together. They become one thing. That is the unmanifest field—a complete unmanifest field; that is Constitution of the Universe.
 
‘It is a beautiful thing. One cannot transfer to the other. Only, one’s own mind could be saturated in the value of the Cosmic Constitution. The man-made constitution will be with reference to the relative field of activity.
 
‘It is not enough that the children are only trained in the knowledge of the man-made constitutions. It is very necessary that they are trained in the Constitution of the Universe, which is in the finer fields of their own consciousness and ultimately in Transcendental Consciousness. Transcendental Consciousness is the total ocean of the Constitution of the Universe—very well inscripted and very well flowing in the ultimate reality of total “Purnat Purnam Udachyate.”
 
‘I was so happy hearing this phrase from Dr Morris. The flow of fullness: that is life. That is going to be the life of the governments. One government will flow into the other, not as a horrible thing coming to the other, but as a flow of Totality to the reality of Totality, and that also flows. All governments on the level of permanent peace means invincibility flowing from country to country. No one can be an oppression to the other. That will be the most civilized family of nations, and that we are going to create.
 
‘We admire all the human efforts that have been for so long in each government, in combinations of different countries here and there, and the United Nations, and all that. But the whole thing is on the pitiable level of human concepts, human creations, intellectual things. That is not enough when the relation of one to the other is concerned. This relationship of one to the other is a reality of the gap between the two, and the gap is unmanifest. The science and technology of the unmanifest, science and technology of this transcendental field, alone is a solution to all peace, prosperity, fullness, and everything nice for human life. This is the life we want to create in our world.

‘It is a very great joy that in this scientific age we can talk plainly, we can talk simply, even to those who are not scientists, but have been hearing about science. So they have some kind of faith. Every government has some kind of faith, even these heads of states and those who do not know anything of science. Whatever they may know may be the twenty or thirty year old test-tube science. They make the laws that when you open a science college, you have to have this test tube and this table and this and that. It is superficial.

‘Now is the time that the ultimate has been discovered or uncovered. The Unified Field has been opened. So start the education of the people from the level of the Unified Field. Give them the benefit of the Unified Field. Give the children a beautiful, sweet orange, and solemnly tell them, “This is an orange.” Later, in four years, tell them how it grows. But give them the fruit. If you have a machine, teach the man how to use the machine. Later tell him how the machine was made. So tell him later how invincibility is structured. Give him invincibility.

‘Make your government really capable of governing. Do not govern with tools which have to be amended all the time to be better and better. . . .
 
‘The whole structuring dynamics of administration is finally going to be really competent, and government is going to be invincible. That means at every level of responsibility, it is going to be successful from beginning to end. This will be the authority of a government that invincibility will produce in every government.
 
‘World press, we are very happy to invite you to take this message to your countries, whatever is your country. We are speaking to the world press. Tell the people to take a chance with me. If whatever I say comes out to be true, then the country will be enlightened all the time. . . .

‘Every week I am expecting to hear, “Yes, yes, yes” from ten, twenty governments, so that in one, two, or three months all will fall in. It is our great joy—really very great joy—to talk about it. It is our joy to confirm, week after week. We keep on confirming, confirming it is a joy. It is beautiful.’