17 November 2004 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. I am prepared to answer any questions on what Dr Hagelin is constantly suggesting: a graceful, dignified way for every nation to enjoy invincibility now. This is the message to every government. 

‘We have been giving this message, yet the destructive forces are rising in more and more violence against peace and knowledge. It is good to know that the world press has been informing their
readers. . . . 

‘We are doing our best to gather Yogic Flyers who will quietly raise peace, harmony, coherence, and invincibility in the national consciousness of every country. We have developed that art and science. We are out to radiate these qualities, if the people of any country are ready to welcome us tomorrow.’

Question: How to Fulfil Peaceful Aspirations

Dr Hagelin: ‘Many peace-loving people in America are depressed and concerned about the future prospects of the country and the world. What will the US Peace Government do to put the country on the right track? Specifically, what needs to be done to make this happen on a national level and in local communities?’ 

Maharishi: ‘There is very little that has to be done, in the same way that very little has to be done to light a lamp and put out the darkness. Our message is not to meet the devil with destruction. Very little has to be done.

‘Every family has students who are studying and learning to use their brain physiology. What the Peace Government requires is just a few groups of 8,000 practising Yogic Flying together. Yogic Flying is the phenomenon of the experience of bliss. Give your students the experience of bliss, and very naturally, national consciousness will have invincibility. The nature of Natural Law, which is invincible, will come up in the behaviour of the people. . . .

‘What they need to do is have the children experience bliss. We have been shouting aloud from rooftops about the theory of the Unified Field. . . . 

‘When the people want to know what they can do, all they can do is light the lamp in darkness. When suffering, terror, and all misfortunes are coming to you, here is a call to enjoy bliss. Take a dive into the bliss in yourself—the Unified Field.’  

Question: How Religions Can Bring Unity and Peace

Dr Hagelin: ‘What can the Peace Government do to ensure that the passionate followers of religions use their faith to bring unity and peace to the world, and not division and destruction?’

Maharishi: ‘They must begin to enjoy the bliss of their self-referral consciousness. We have been crying out and shouting aloud this message to them for years.’

Question: Advantages of Consciousness-Based Education

Dr Hagelin: ‘There is now a huge, emerging response, and an awakening of interest and sense of responsibility among the youth who feel that if we are ever going to have a better world, they had better take responsibility for it. Millions of students will graduate from high school at the end of this year, and many of them are deciding right now what universities or colleges to attend. Could Maharishi please explain once again the advantages of attending one of his institutions of higher learning—Maharishi University of Management, Maharishi Vedic University, Maharishi University of World Peace—over the usual colleges and universities that most students attend?’

Maharishi: ‘The usual colleges and universities which most students attend create slaves, most obedient servants. Our universities create masters of Natural Law. The brilliance that has been shown by the students at the Maharishi University of Management is enough of a proof that the students will rise to Total Knowledge—enlightenment. They will never think anything wrong. They will never do anything which is stupid or for which they will have to repent. They will never do anything which could bring them failure. Always they will be on the golden path of enlightenment, improvement, and progress—always progress.  

‘It is the parents who lead their sons and daughters to our schools. If we do not have a school, they can open one. I am prepared to train the teachers for these youngsters in a very short time. The students should make use of their full brain physiology.

‘The professors should realize they do not know what Dr Hagelin is telling them about the Unified Field. They may be teaching the algebra, geometry, or arithmetic of the equations of the Unified Field, but it is the application of the Unified Field for the experience of the Unified Field that will train the mind to be always in a progressive direction.  

‘All these universities and colleges are worthless with old-fashioned science that is no good. Old-fashioned science is that science for which people get the Nobel Prize. Look at the prize winner’s life and family. He cannot even manage his family. The use of full brain functioning is different from talking about the theory of the Unified Field.  

‘Fortunately for the scientists of America and of the world, there is a scientist who has studied the physiology and located its basis in the self-referral Unified Field, the field of consciousness which can be experienced through the Transcendental Meditation Programme. Self-referral experiences are the way to develop the full cosmic potential of the individual.  

‘We have been saying, and we will continue to say, that these professors must realize there is something they have not known, which they should know, and that is to know by being, not through bookish knowledge. Bookish knowledge will not help transform the intelligence into all possibilities, but the experience of Transcendental Consciousness will.  

‘Our authority is in experiencing the Unified Field which will make every individual the embodiment of total Natural Law. Every individual will represent the infinite dimension of creativity, the Constitution of the Universe. That intelligence of the universe is always administering the ever-expanding galactic universe with perfect order. If you want to learn order, learn it from that. Where is that? Within you. Dive within. Transcend within yourself.

‘Scientific research on people practising the Transcendental Meditation technique has proven that the experience of Transcendental Consciousness creates brilliance in their behavioural patterns. Let your sons and daughters practise this, if you are too old to understand it. There is a shop where they can own bliss, affluence, and invincibility. It will give them leadership of Natural Law rather than slavery to some firm here or there. Do not waste time now.  

‘Parents are maybe 30, 40, or 50 years of age, but their children are from a different time. This is now the time when total Natural Law can be upheld by every mind, every intellect, every being, and every soul. Self-referral consciousness is knowledge; the other is a lack of knowledge.’

Question: The Path to God

Dr Hagelin: ‘This question for Maharishi is on the nature of religion. Maharishi, most spiritual and religious teachings preach that the human body is impure and should be renounced, and that worldly possessions and individual desires are an obstacle to devotion to God. Yet Maharishi recently said that the human body is the seat of divine knowledge and that the world would soon enter a peaceful era of spiritual enlightenment and material affluence where everyone would be able to fulfil their desires. Why are Maharishi’s teachings apparently so opposite from previous spiritual teachings? How can one reconcile or unify these two diverging viewpoints?’

Maharishi: ‘If you think the path to God is full of poverty, you are mistaken, wrong, and have been misled. When you walk towards the light can you expect darkness to grow? By walking in the direction of God, everything will be better and better, happier and happier, and more and more evolved until it is supreme.  

‘If anyone says wealth is an obstacle, then he does not know. . . . Suffering is not the path to God realization. Every step towards God brings more and more of everything—more and more joy, happiness, more of everything.’

Question: The Role of Government

Dr Hagelin: ‘Governments in every country have grown very large and very costly because leaders spend their time and public money dealing with the enormous amount of problems caused by the people. The press would like to know what the purpose of the government will be when people are enlightened and not creating problems for themselves and others? What function will governments play when people are self-governing?’

Maharishi: ‘The government will train the people to govern themselves through education, health, communication, and invincibility. Instead of fighting to eliminate problems, they will prevent problems through education. Education will be in the hands of the enlightened people who will give the youngsters the experience of invincibility in themselves in the classrooms. This is what the government will do.  

‘Governments will see that any child born in the nation is not deprived of his cosmic creativity, his cosmic intelligence, and the divine within himself. This is what governments will give their people in every generation. Instead of fighting and suffering, governments will live in waves of bliss and see that every citizen of their nation lives in waves of bliss. The waves of bliss are not to be brought from outside. They are within one’s own silent chamber of intelligence, self-referral consciousness, the Unified Field within oneself.  

‘This experience in the classroom will be maintained by teachers who are trained and maintained for this education by the government. Governments will see that they do not distribute medicines which cause negative side effects. Governments will distribute medicines which will prevent problems and maintain higher states of consciousness. By maintaining higher states of consciousness, the physical body will be maintained on a very delicate level of purity which is very flexible, soft, gentle, and free from any strain.  

‘Governments will give that education, instead of the other education. Governments will give that medical care, instead of the medical care which is present today. Governments will have a system of defence to prevent an enemy, rather than to fight with the enemy and die with the enemy or kill the enemy. Governments will not train their people in the art of dying and killing—no. People will live long because their physiology is so pure and their consciousness is lively in cosmic intelligence.  

‘Governments will have a lot to do, but all will be done by the self-referral consciousness within the individual himself. Governments will have that kind of education, health care, defence, communication, engineering, and economy where there is affluence.

‘Everything is going to be in terms of the divine in man. “Man is made in the image of God” is a Christian phrase. If the Christians feel that men should be killed, then they are killing themselves, because they also are made of the same material.’

Question: How TM Creates a Better World

Dr Hagelin: ‘The next question indicates that more and more young people are tuning in. Many students in colleges and universities today are without much optimism or hope. They live in a world dominated by materialism, commercialism, governmental corruption and war, when they desire to live in a world of harmony and peace. How can Transcendental Meditation be used by young people to create a better world for themselves? And what will that world look like?’

Maharishi: ‘Transcendental Meditation creates Transcendental Consciousness, which is bliss consciousness. All the students have to do is rise to bliss consciousness, then the whole atmosphere will be very likeable and will not be thorny.  

‘Parents should send their children to those schools, or open the schools. We want to open all the schools and colleges, but building them will take much time. The existing schools should take guidance and orders now from the greatest educators of this enlightened age. Dr Hagelin is the mastermind in the field of education. Take his advice.
 
‘All schools and colleges should begin to give a period a day for Transcendental Meditation. Call it “experience of bliss”, “a period for bliss”, “a period for the experience of pure intelligence”, “a period for invincibility”, or “a period for maximum creativity”. A period should be given to develop that.  

‘We have seen that bookish knowledge has great limitations. It is fragmented and does not do justice to human intelligence, because human intelligence is all divine in its essential nature. That divinity is on its own level. The mind has to dive into it by using Transcendental Meditation, the technique of diving and being one with that divinity. That is all that one has to do, and the rest will be taken care of by Natural Law.  

‘Total Natural Law is everywhere—omnipresent. The Unified Field is all that there is, and everything is its own expression. Therefore, be at the basis of all the expressed world, all the physical world, and you will be brightening life from within.

‘Life is all bliss; it is a flow of bliss. A Vedic expression says, “Purnat Purnam Udachyate”, “From fullness emerges fullness.” The whole flow of life is the flow of fullness. That is the essential nature of the divine. Only on that level, only on its own level is it available to the mind, the intellect, and the self. It is so easy to have it.  

‘It is a very incomplete system of education which does not lead everyone’s mind to that field of affluence within their own Self. Education has been very incompetent. With one period a day, as advised by our Peace Government and the greatest scientists of our time, it is completely possible for all the schools, colleges, and universities to give the benefit of the latest discovery in the field of physical sciences—the discovery of the Unified Field—and practically arrive at that field through the Vedic system of daily living.

‘It is very necessary not to suffer when you can enjoy. There was a time when this knowledge of Transcendental Meditation was not known. But now it is very well known, widely practised, very established, well researched, and completely proven. It is authentic. Now there is no reason why all the incompetent approaches to the development of education should not be forgotten or abandoned. 

‘Every university, college, and school will do the greatest favour to their students if they introduce one period a day for invincibility of the individual consciousness, which is the unit of national consciousness. Then every nation will enjoy invincibility. This is the only way that the black spot in the developing world can be eliminated. Take care of your children; take care of yourself.  

‘This is the message that the world press could bring to give life to its readers. Then the world will be a better world. We have the knowledge. Dr Hagelin, the President of the Peace Government, is completely competent to bring about a turnaround from suffering to joy, because suffering is in the field of ignorance, and intelligence knows that suffering has no place in the light of God.

‘Let us hear the experiences of our greatest educators in our scientific age, Dr Hagelin and Dr Bevan Morris. Listen to them again and again, morning and evening.  

‘Make an appeal to all the professors. Every professor knows that whatever he knows, there is still something which he does not know. What does he not know? He does not know that his inner divine nature can be approached easily. Tell them this knowledge is available. Everyone’s Self is this. Parents and professors, help the youngsters to rise to divine monarchy, rather than slavery.’