Maharishi's Address at the
Celebration of Dipavali -- the Festival of Lights

9 November 2007

Highlights

During the global celebration of the Festival of Lights, the Vedic Day of Mahalakshmi, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Founder of the Global Country of World Peace, performed global Puja (Vedic ceremony of gratitude) to his Master, Guru Dev* and then, following a brief speech in Hindi, addressed the assembly.

Maharishi: 'Jai Guru Dev, Jai Guru Dev, Jai Guru Dev. Having performed today's Puja to Guru Dev, the Puja of Mahalakshmi, on this day out of the 365 days of the year dedicated to Mahalakshmi—the inexhaustible source of affluence—Mahalakshmi, the source of all orderly, affluent administration of the universe is enlivened in our awareness in waves of offerings to Guru Dev, one after the other, offerings to Guru Dev. The impulse of creativity through the levels of administration of the ever-expanding universe is the Custodian, the Mother of all beings in our universe. The unified state of administration of the versified, infinitely-differentiated, but compactified, universe is unified, on the lap of Mother Divine, Mahalakshmi Maya.

‘Fortunate, very fortunate we are. Our fortune today is beyond description, beyond speech. It is on the transcendental level. Fortunately, we are aware on the level of our intellectual understanding and also on the level of our experiential, direct knowledge. We are aware of the source of all order, affluence, integration, and unification of all diversity in Mahalakshmi Maya—the Mother Divine of affluence, the affluence of infinite compactified divine bliss, the characteristic quality of the administration of the universe.

‘Our offer to Guru Dev takes away today all the disorders and distinctions and mutual challenges and restlessness in the administration of the universe. This is what we are sunk in today—transcendental bliss, self-referral Brahm. Aham Brahmasmi, Tat Tvam Asi, Sarvam Kalvidam Brahm, Ayam Atma Brahm. All our Puja to Guru Dev comes out with the Puja to this Paramba**, Mahalakshmi, comes co-existing with our self-referral Purusha consciousness. We are a part of that divine, orderly administration of the universe today, having awakened the reality of Mahalaksmi Maya, Mother Mahalakshmi, Mother Divine.

‘This comes to us as representation of the silent administration of Brahm [Totality], of Raam Brahm, of Rajadhiraj*** Nader Raam, who is representing this great Lakshmi of human race at the basis of all that we call the universe—unified, versified reality in the state of unified existence—Mahalakshmi Maya. The most precious level of administration of the universe is inseparable from the personality of the administrator, Mahalakshmi Maya.

‘We are fortunate. On the surface, it is the Festival of Light, today, Dipavali—the Festival of Light in the Indian calendar. It is in the Festival of Light that the world is breathing its existence, its evolution, its fulfilment. That we have faced in all these waves of offerings to Guru Dev. Fortunate we are to have celebrated the Day of Light with the whole world family and with the administrator of the whole world family in silence—Maharajadhiraj Raja Nader Raam—the first ruler of the Global Country of World Peace, putting the fragmentations and differences of the world in a grand unity on the level of silence where this grand unity is undivided, eternal. And this eternally unified world is going to be the blessing of the silent administration of Maharaja Nader Raam, in whose presence and with whom, we have performed Puja to Guru Dev.

‘In that act of performance of Puja, we have celebrated the Festival of Light, the most awakened day out of the 365 days of the Vedic Calendar. And that momentum gained today, in the unification of the scattered awareness of the 6 billion people of the world, stands unified in complete light, the Festival of Light. And the world festival belongs to all the species, to different variations of the span of life of all the species—the Festival of Light.

‘We are fortunate. Dr Feldman, the Finance Minister of Rajadhiraj Raja Nader Raam, the Treasurer of Raam currency, is holding the inexhaustible treasury of Raja Raam. The currency of Raam, the treasurer of Raam currency, has an inexhaustible range of authority upheld and sustained by that inexhaustible treasury, which is a natural structure of Mahalaksmi Maya, Mother Divine in charge of inexhaustible affluence in the currency of Raam.

'Please, Dr Feldman, invite the Vedic Pandits to shower on us the traditional, eternal blessings of Mahalakshmi Maya, Mother Divine, the custodian of the administration of Brahm, to shower on us the blessings of Mahalakshmi Maya, the custodian of the treasury of Brahm, inexhaustible treasury of Kubera****. And the turnkey operation to unlock it is in the custody of the Vedic Pandits.

‘Please ask them to unlock the inexhaustible treasury of Brahm through the recitations of the Constitution of Brahm—the Veda. Tell them all we have performed the Puja, and now we are waiting to bask in the sunshine of the showers of Mahalakshmi from the inexhaustible treasury of Brahm. Please invite them.

'[These are] very fortunate moments for our world family, very fortunate moments for the custodians and administrators of the world family, all the Devatas in heaven and earth, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. Please invite them to bless us from their traditional expressions of the Constitution of the Veda, the actual items of that performance [of the] orderly administration of the universe. We are wanting to bask in the sunshine of those showers of blessings. All glory to Guru Dev. Jai Guru Dev.'

* Guru Dev: Maharishi's Master, Shri Guru Dev, His Divinity Brahmananda Saraswati, Jagatguru Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Himalayas.

** 'Para' means transcendental. 'Amba' means Mother Divine.

***A title for the highest of Rajas, the Raja of Rajas.

****Kubera is the impulse of creative intelligence that oversees the infinite treasury of wealth.