16 March 2005 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. I must congratulate Dr Hagelin for explaining to the world press for all times the mechanics of the transformation of a world of problems to a world of peace, happiness, and fulfilment. Your one talk today is for all times. You have given out the substance of all the fifty years of our messages to the world in different countries, in different years. Now you have summarized it in one short lecture.

‘If any one single individual or one single nation wants to understand what is at the basis of our proclamation of invincibility to the world and what knowledge is there at the basis of this achievement that is going to be the world's achievement now, you have given out that knowledge in one lecture. You have given out the knowledge in terms of modern science, in terms of experimentation, and in terms of the eternal science of administration—prevention-oriented administration. You have given out the knowledge.
 
‘I have to proclaim to the world: Now, world press, begin to see the light of this beautiful knowledge redeeming the world, redeeming every country. All the wrongs of the present civilization in the field of politics, economics, business and all are full of shortcomings, because they are humanly conceived principles. Humanly conceived principles have a different character when a man is drowsy in the evening, or drowsy in the morning, or when he is a little bit more awake in the day. So these are variables. The man-made constitutions of every country, which are the guidelines of every government, have been very unsatisfactory because of human failings and human shortcomings imbibed in the constitutions of the countries.
 
‘I am telling the world press today to watch now whether it is one week, two weeks, ten weeks, twenty weeks—since it may not go that long, much before twenty weeks, much before ten weeks—that they will begin to see the rise of coherence in world consciousness. The rise of coherence in world consciousness will spontaneously topple down all trends and actions of negativity in any area of life.
 
‘The present governments are full of negativities. I would not like to go into them now. I would only say that no government can save the nation. No military, no defence department of the government, can save the nation. No medical department of the government can prevent disease, and more and more disease is coming up. More and more poverty is coming up. The ability of the governments today is more and more towards negativity.
 
‘I am going to ask the world press to be ready to observe how soon the wise people, the fortunate people who are ruling the countries, the fortunate governments, become wise. Or, if they do not become wise, then how soon they go out of their ruling authority. The next people will come, and soon they will go. But here is a chance for the world press to see.
 
‘My programme is not starting now. It has been fifty years since it started. Now I am proclaiming some tangible results on the level of administration, prevention-oriented administration. Dr Hagelin has said a hundred times today, “Prevention-oriented administration”.
 
‘Any government who wants to know what is behind my emphasis on offering invincibility to every nation should listen to this introductory talk by Dr Hagelin. Listen, and listen, and listen. Think of your own country’s inheritance, your own country’s cultural inheritance. Have that in mind, and listen to Dr Hagelin’s talk today. It is hoped that the fortune of the country, which is being held by you, will bring you the light of enlightenment, and you will be able to contract with my university. I am asking you to contract with my university that will train your people and establish a high level of safety and security reaching to the level of invincibility. 

‘When I am saying the word “invincibility”, I mean what the meaning of invincibility is for every government. Governments today are so saturated with problems, they cannot understand that invincibility is a possibility. But I am telling you that if the destruction of nations is possible, quite on the same level, from my side, invincibility is at hand. 

‘Governments, do it. Otherwise, remember, “Tomorrow never comes.” “Now or never” is the word—another phrase. We are losing time today. Let no government tell me that they are so busy in this and so busy in that, and they are setting up a committee, and I should satisfy the committee. I am not going to explain to them. I will send today’s tape of Dr Hagelin, and if they have any intelligence in the field of science, or any patriotism for their people, or any sense of duty, they should contract and raise the nation to invincibility.
 
‘This is one aspect of it. The other aspect of it is that my programme is already under way, but it is going to take a long time, because the organization is a single organization. It has its activity in so many hundreds of countries, but it is one organization. Therefore, it is going to take a long time. But the effectiveness is increasing. More and more groups are starting individually, and the thing that will happen very soon, within a few weeks or two, three months—maybe even sooner, we cannot say—is the world press should begin to see a transformation. The transformation of destructive tendencies, the transformation of the mud into a beautiful lotus, will begin to be seen.
 
‘Each government has its election time, either in a year, two years, or six months. Within this time, the government can make itself invincible. Within this time governments are thinking of so many ways to do the election in order that they come into more power. Before elections, they can raise the level of national consciousness so everyone in the country is so relaxed, so free from stress and strain, so free from fear, and so free from conflicts. Use this technology to come back again in your election. . . .
 
‘India’s traditional system of administration is by Raja. Who is a Raja? He is a Raja who is “Rajate—Raja Rajate”, a Raja established in himself in that fulfilled level of consciousness, Brahmi Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, which is spontaneously harmonizing all diverse values. The ability to spontaneously harmonize all the diversities is the characteristic quality of the ruler of the country of the Veda, India.
 
‘India has drifted far away, but it does not matter. The change of the system of administration in India is inherent in the Indian breath—Atma, Brahm, Veda, “Veda Bhumi Bharata”. It does not matter that the Indians have forgotten all that, but the cosmic system has created Total Knowledge, an ideal basis of all life in one country in the world. That is the country of Bharata—Prati Bharat. India, the land of the Veda, the land of knowledge, the land of all possibilities, has always enjoyed the slogan “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam”—the world is my family. . . .

‘We are going to transform the quality of Indian consciousness through a general rise of Sattva, a general rise of coherence in world consciousness. . . . Quietly, in the same quietness as the darkness disappears with the onset of light, we are going to welcome the dawn of Sat Yuga now. We are concerned with the dawn of Sat Yuga. The going out of Kali Yuga, we just do not mind. Do not waste time on that.
  
‘The name of religion, “Sanatana Dharma”, means eternal religion. What is eternal religion? It is a religion, a path to Totality, to God-realization, that never changes. Eternal religion does not change. It does not depend on a man that was here two thousand years ago or fifteen hundred years ago or three thousand years ago. It is not dependent on the individual. It is dependent on the reality, which is infinity—infinity and its point. Between infinity and its point is the flow of fullness, fullness. That fullness is the field of cosmic administration. That is the Cosmic Constitution of the Universe; that is the way.
 
‘It does not matter if you know or not; do not worry about it. You eat a few grains of sugar, that is all, and your mouth will be sweet. So enjoy it. Later on, you may know how this came about to be like that. It came from the same soil which also produces other very pungent, very salty fruits. But it also produces sugar cane, and through so much transformation, you get a sugar particle—so nice. The same thing will produce this.  

‘It is the same cosmic law, the same eternal Constitution of the Universe, which makes everyone evolve—go from stage to stage, from point to point to point to point to point to infinity. This is the range of the Cosmic Constitution. . . .

‘My programmes are under way. Whatever they are, they will be known by effect. The effect of coherence and the effect of invincibility, which I am going to produce for any country and all countries, is not based on press reports.

‘We have the programme whose capital is every Indian home. Raam is there in every Indian home; Krishna is there in every Indian home; Shushankar is there; Shuprasad is there; Ganapati—all the Devatas’ names are there. The roots of India are deeply rooted in Vedanta. Veda is there; Vedanta is there; Yoga is there; Karma is there; Bhakti is there; Ayurveda is there.

‘It is not for me to tell the world how many wrong things are happening in every country. . . . It is not one thing that is wrong. It is everything that is wrong. It is the time of Kali Yuga, the time of time. But eternal is the tradition of the Vedic Masters. Eternal is the reality of Veda and Vedanta and Atma and Brahm and “Aham Brahmasmi” and “Aham Atma”. This is India.

‘Governments, take invincibility from me now in this generation, or some other government will come and set India in its Indian reality. That will be Vedic India. That will be Vedic Administration. Vedic Administration in India will radiate Veda—that means knowledge. What is there to radiate? The Unified Field. Vedanta is the Unified Field; Yoga is the Unified Field; Bhakti is the Unified Field; Bhagavan is absolutely the Unified Field, the only source of world peace. These are centred in the country of India, but not in the present government of India. . . .
 
‘Neat and clean coherence will establish the Indian wisdom of administration, Indian wisdom of education, Indian wisdom of health, Indian wisdom of defence. Listen to Dr Hagelin’s lecture of today, and right yourself. . . .

‘As some governments contract, those countries will have negativity go out more rapidly, and positivity, affluence, peace, cordiality, and happiness will be enjoyed by everyone.
 
‘All nations have been groping in darkness, and it is such a joy that now my whole world family will come in the bright sunshine. Congratulate them, Dr Hagelin, and ask the press to tell us that they see a better time is dawning from today and every week.’

Question: The Specialty of the Vedic Pandits

Dr Hagelin: ‘Thank you very much, Maharishi, for that extraordinary introduction. It is a message that certainly all governments of the world, and India perhaps most especially, should hear. All governments of the world should hear it again and again.
 
‘This question is following up on a comment of Maharishi’s of last week. Last week, Maharishi said that his programme to raise a nation to invincibility included training groups of local people from that country in the coherence-creating technologies of the Transcendental Meditation Programme and the Yogic Flying technique. Maharishi also spoke of strengthening the positive influence of these local experts with a group of specially trained Vedic Pandits who would come from India. What is the specialty of these Vedic experts? What will they do to create peace and invincibility that the local experts cannot do?’ 

Maharishi: ‘The Vedic Pandits have in their tradition committing the text of the Veda to memory. The text of the Veda is in the language of infinity, the language of eternity. It is the transcendental field of speech. The Vedic script, the Mantras of the Vedas, the melodies of the Vedas, and the composition of the Vedas are not man-made. They are the actuality of the ultimate reality, endowed with Total Knowledge and total organizing power which is at the basis of all that there is in the universe.
 
‘The Universe we know is an ever-expanding, galactic universe. The physiology of the universe is ever expanding, expanding, expanding. We find that the physiology of anything is also expanding, expanding, expanding. Trees expand; the monkeys grow; from childhood, the man grows; everything grows, grows, grows. This ever-growing field is the field of intelligence. The whole of the Constitution of the Universe is in every point of this growth.
 
‘A point knows where it is going to grow next. Where it is going to grow? It is going to grow to unity. The seed knows where to grow. The whole tree grows—all these leaves and all—and ultimately becomes a seed again. From seed to seed—from the unmanifest hollowness of the seed to the unmanifest hollowness of the seed—is the growth of the seed. 

‘Where is the growth of the seed? It is within itself. All the growth, meaning all knowledge and all dynamism, is within itself. Being within itself, the Constitution being within itself, the Creator is within itself, the creation is within itself, and the creative process is within itself. This is the Constitution of the Universe.
 
‘The Indian Vedic Pandits have a tradition to memorize. What do they memorize? One word, they repeat the word. Then they repeat two words, three words, four words, all sequentially growing—millions of words. They are all the expansion of the one little word, one little sound, “A”.
 
‘This is a very special thing that has gone on from generation to generation all the time in the world. This is the specialty of India—“In”. Just even in the word “in” is the secret of all life; “in” is the secret of all life. Life as spread outside is just for the children, but the reality of life, the maturity of life, is in, in, in.

‘The recitation of the Veda is by the Vedic Pandits, whose tradition is to memorize the Veda from beginning to end. There are innumerable expansions of the Vedic Literature. They read it. There is a class of people, the Vedic Pandits, who memorize the Vedic structure—the Constitution of the Universe. They do it in their own fully developed consciousness.

‘There are seven states of consciousness which we have been teaching for all these years. Dr Hagelin has summarized this in terms of the modern language of the Unified Field. The whole knowledge is completely in the transcendental field. That is the eternal, immutable, self-sustaining, self-referral Unified Field.
 
‘The other values are everywhere else in all other countries. All people can rise to Transcendental Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness, Unity Consciousness—all the seven states of consciousness. But such speech belongs to the oral tradition of the Vedic Pandits. When they chant together, they are reverberating. They are creating waves, like when you put a stone in water and waves spread all over. The recitation of the Vedic Pandits is a phenomenon which enlivens the entire Constitution of the Universe in every point of the universe. It is a huge science, and that we are going to do. . . .

‘The Veda is an eternal reality. In the tradition of Vedic Pandits, this recitation of the Veda is a natural thing. The oral tradition of maintaining the liveliness of the Constitution of the Universe generation after generation is the specialty of the Vedic families in India. We are giving them all that is necessary to protect them. . . . We want to save them, so we are organizing their lives, which will be the bright sunshine of positivity and harmony in Indian life. From there, it will spread in the life of every nation.
 
‘When we say “invincibility to every nation”, we are saying this from two points of view: the Vedic recitation values and the rites of the Vedic Pandits. Morning they do this, evening they do that. There is a lifestyle from birth which is all in terms of the natural significance of the rise and fall of the sun and the moon. The whole science of Totality, Jyotish, and Yagyas, is a tremendously beautiful science. Due to foreign rule in India, all these things have gone in the background, but the seed is there, because the basic reality of life is infinity, eternity, self-sufficiency. 

‘Everything changing is in the structure of the unmanifest. It is huge, when you know what it is. Everything is at a point. Our offer of invincibility is on that level of knowledge which is absolutely lively and awake in the Vedic traditions of India.’  

Question: Coherent Brain Function and Education

Dr Hagelin: ‘Thank you very much, Maharishi. This Friday, Maharishi University of Management will host a major national science conference on Transcendental Meditation and the brain. Scientists will present new research that shows Transcendental Meditation promotes coherent brain functioning among students, and that there is a marked integration of brain functioning within different parts of the brain and between different areas of the brain. The conference has become big news. Brain researchers and universities from throughout the nation and science writers from major newspapers across the country will participate in the conference via live Internet Webcast.

‘My questions for Maharishi are as follows: Why is it important for a brain to function coherently and holistically? In particular, what are the benefits for a student? What changes are needed in a school’s curriculum to introduce Maharishi’s Consciousness-Based Education, and how long will it take to see concrete results?’ 

Maharishi: ‘Concrete results in individual life begin to be seen from the day one dives into the field of consciousness. Transcendental Meditation takes the mind to Transcendental Consciousness, bliss consciousness, which is the transcendental basis of everything. Being transcendental, it cannot be influenced by anything. It is the level of invincibility and is the basis of all change in life.
 
‘All our smiling for the present and future of the world is from that level of Transcendental Consciousness, which is the consciousness of Totality, of infinity, of eternity, of non-change, of invincibility. Every government is going to be smiling now. The days of weeping and tears should be over for every government. Conflicts, oppositions, and wars all should have an end.
 
‘We are not going to fight the destroyers of the world on their level. We are going to silently produce coherence in world consciousness, and all the bubbles of unrest will naturally disappear, as the darkness disappears with the onset of light—simply with no struggle.
 
‘We are not strugglers. We are masters of life. We dictate our terms. Those who take it, will enjoy life. Those who do not take it today, will take it tomorrow, the next day, or otherwise in the next birth [laughter]. They have to come to this level where the reality of life is always smiling in bliss and moving in the waves of bliss.
 
‘Ask the press to listen to today’s talk by Dr Hagelin in all the coming weeks. All the scientists, who are gathering there at Maharishi University of Management, will become wiser scientists in every meeting. Total brain functioning is a big, huge thing. For us, it is the normal development of the brain functioning of every individual through Vedic Education.
 
‘Now the time to mention the results is quite over. Now take it, and be it. Enjoy. And if you do not take it? Tomorrow you will take it or the third day you will take it. . . .
 
‘All these dramatic things are going to disappear. Let us just see when they disappear—one month, two months, or whatever from today’s date. We will survey on the Guru Purnima day, on the day of our spiritual master, our Vedic Master. There are still three, four months. By that time, the world will have changed. I am saying it.

‘These words are not the words of publicity. We have done publicity all these fifty years. Now is the time to take the cream off of it. Much before Guru Purnima, we will see the dawn of a new time for the world. Sat Yuga is descending on earth.’