3 May 2006 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Yes. It is such a joy to hear you, Dr Hagelin. You are the voice of the time. You are the voice of the time when the darkness of the night is coming to an end, and the bright dawn is rising. Your beautiful exhortations of the reality of life, everywhere throughout the world, are so remarkable. Your expressions of the proper evaluation of the dawning sun are so encouraging to hear. I would like to hear you all the time.

‘Your message is so clear, so simple, so truthful, and so much in the interest of absolutely everyone. When you say, “Invincible America”, what echoes throughout the world is “Invincible Every Country”. It is such a beautiful thing. After all these fifty years, the world is awake. It is not going to be the same world. It is just not going to be the same world.

‘What does the world press want to ask, after all the evidence of this great feat of life? Are there still any questions from the world press?’ 

Question: Unmanifest and the Field of Total Knowledge

Dr Hagelin: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Maharishi, on the theme of education, there are two questions on this subject of Total Knowledge, which is quite a fascinating concept for the press. Maharishi has said that Transcendental Meditation leads the mind to the source of thought, the field of Total Knowledge. What is the relationship between the source of thought, which seems to be transcendental and devoid of content, and Total Knowledge, which would seem to be a field of all content? Why is the unmanifest source of thought also a field of Total Knowledge?’ 

Maharishi: ‘Take one little example of the hollowness of a banyan seed. The whole big banyan tree has its emergence in the hollowness of the banyan seed. This hollowness of the banyan seed is a big emptiness, a big zero, a big nothingness—the reality of the unmanifest. If the Totality has to be everywhere, it cannot remain in any isolation in space and time; it cannot be divided in isolation in space and time. It has to be on a holistic level.

‘The answer is that the basic source of all manifest creation is the field of the unmanifest, the self-referral field of intelligence, which has been unfolded through quite a lot of logic and investigation, and is beyond any doubt now. The Unified Field is self-referral, not object-referral. And because it is not object-referral, it is referring to itself.

‘It is just the situation of zero-point reality—nothingness, unmanifest, total unity—made of total diversity in the state of unity. It is complete, just like that simple example of the hollowness of the banyan seed, which is the source and course and goal of the whole huge banyan tree. In the same way, the entire creation emerges through that complete, unmanifest, self-referral reality.

‘Your equations, Dr Hagelin, which you laid out in the mathematical calculations from all arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry—all the different aspects of verification—show that the whole thing is, in its unmanifest state, a total reality of all times. The process of creation is also in the nature of the unmanifest. And the basis of creation is also that unmanifest—the nature of the unmanifest.

‘Transcendental Meditation came out to be a brilliant stroke of genius. We just close the eyes and it takes you to that source of all creation. It takes you to a place where when you want anything, that will come to you there. Wanting and getting—there is no time difference in the two processes. Desiring is getting. That is the self-referral dynamism of the unmanifest field.

‘The whole reality of the tree is in the hollowness of the seed. It is very obvious; it does not need much logic; it is simple. You see there is the whole tree, and you see the tiny seed. How did the whole tree come out from the tiny seed? You can ask your gardener. The gardener says, “You eat the fruit. Why worry about anything? It happens all by itself. Concern yourself with the fruit. Do not worry about how it comes and all that.”

‘Be the gardener of life. Be the savior of yourself. That is what has been the clarion call from all the wise throughout the ages. Be in the light of God. It is there with you. It is there at the basis of you.

‘These surprises are not surprises. They come as a surprise to us because we became too engrossed with the boundaries. So we lost the grandeur of owning the unmanifest—owning that which is nothing, just nothing.

‘I think it is beautiful. You have already inaugurated Invincible America, and here the Rajas of your administration are all expressing the same thing. Day after day, the European countries are waking up to be invincible. Your voice of invincibility is now reaching every home.

‘Everyone is going to rise to invincibility. It is such a beautiful thing. It is a reality now. It is a reality of today, tomorrow, this morning, this afternoon, this evening. It is not a thing of any future—no, no. It is all happening now.

‘You tell them what is happening here, on a very concrete level, in this country where I am—Holland. Four hundred Yogic Flyers have assembled here, and they are practicing Yogic Flying. Their flights are modifying the trends of national life in Holland. Yesterday, I heard that the awakening of Holland had reached Berlin also; the German youth have come up to declare invincible Germany. Today I heard that it is reaching Switzerland, and Austria is waking up also.

‘Raja Willem and his Prime Minister are so proud of their Yogic Flyers.
What is Yogic Flying? Bliss—the experience of bliss on the individual level and coherence in the collective consciousness of the nation. On that level, in the past month, there have been modifications of all the wrong tendencies and problems which have been faced by society; they all get sorted out in a very natural way.

‘Our Prime Minister of Holland is every day issuing articles from the Dutch press that indicate the rise of coherence and positivity in the country, and the lack of disharmony. All those negative things are going out—like the darkness going out—and the brightness of the dawning sun is being experienced by the people all over. In one country, Holland, it is happening. The world press is rejoicing and reporting all that is happening nicely.’