8 November 2006 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Yes, Dr Hagelin, I was listening to your absolutely marvelous expositions to the world press. It will be a joy to answer their questions.’
 

Question: Cycles of Time

Dr Hagelin: ‘Thank you very much, Maharishi. There is one question that is probably a question only Maharishi could address. Maharishi has said that the meditation techniques he is teaching are as old as mankind. But they have been unavailable for centuries. Why is this knowledge, that has been lost for so long, coming out to the world now? What makes this particular time in history so special compared to, say, one hundred years ago or five hundred years ago? Is it simply the acute need for national security and national invincibility at this time in history?’ 

Maharishi: ‘It is millions of years in the field of infinity. When we talk of infinity going on, we talk of a huge circle going on—a circle, circle, circle, all the circles. And “a circle going on” means sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes left, sometimes right. This change of quality continues, absolutely continues. So it is inevitable that what we call the wheel of time is sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes left, sometimes right.

‘This is the history of infinity. The wheel of time in infinity has these different qualities of time—sometimes positive, sometimes negative, sometimes this, sometimes that. So it is a natural feature of the wholeness of life, where wholeness and emptiness are both functioning jointly together. Then the wheel of time is sometimes together positive, sometimes together negative. This is how it goes on and on and on and on and on. That is how the sun comes up, and it sets, and it comes up, and it sets. Like that there is dawn and dusk, dawn and dusk. These are ups and downs of cycles. They are natural in the long history. It is a part of the cosmic game. We understand it like that. It is a natural phenomenon.’

Question: Effect of Large Groups of Yogic Flyers

Dr Hagelin: ‘Thank you very much, Maharishi. And this one more question certainly seems to be on the mind of the press. This is a big day today. Election results are being released. The question is: do we have any reflections on the surprising changeover of leadership in the United States? What impact do we see that large groups of Yogic Flyers may have on the destiny of the nation?’ 

Maharishi: ‘What we know is one word about it, “change” and then change, and then change, and then change, until it comes to a point that change will be less and less frequent, and stability, Totality, sameness will be more and more pervading. So in our estimation, we do not actually mind what happens in the field of politics, in economics, in society, in all that—no. We just quietly see the changes and smile. We just see the changes and smile. All these changes and all that—we expect them, because it is our creation. We are creating a more and more integrated national life in every country. So the country has to become more and more affluent, more and more healthy, more and more positive.

‘We just hear what is happening, and we smile: “Yes, yes. Yes, yes. We expect that to happen; we expect that to happen.” But we do not participate in opinion making, because it is sometimes this, sometimes that. Overall it is better and better and better and better, better, better. These are all natural phenomena. That is why we do not participate in all these things. Ours is a very steady pace of prosperity and happiness and coherence and goodwill. Conflicts must end as we become more and more prevalent in the world, more and more adopted in the world.

‘All good is going to come out. We have started to see for the last about two, three months what we have been saying and predicting and all that. Now is the time for us to see what is happening, for the world press to see what is happening. And not let it come to us to inform, but let others inform others, “This is happening, this is happening.” And we smile over this, “Yes, very good”.

‘Like that, these changes will continue until a time comes that Total Natural Law becomes a living reality in the life of the individual, in the life of society, in the life of the nation, in our world family. We do not mind what was thousands of years ago or yesterday or what. We do not mind. A bright rising sun is ahead of us. We enjoy and invite the press to see what is happening and tell us that this has happened here and this has happened there. That is the work of the world press: “In this country, this happened; in that country, that happened.” And with a smile, we will receive them and will say, “Yes, yes, yes”. We know the cause and, therefore, we expect that to happen—that is all.

‘But something nice is going to continuously come out in the world. That is our quiet, successful vision of what we have been doing for all these years.’