20 October 2004 Press Conference Highlights

Opening Remarks

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. Dr Hagelin, your call for the people of the world is to establish their consciousness in total Natural Law. Whether we define it or understand it in terms of the theories of the modern physical sciences, the science of consciousness, or in terms of the holy texts of different religions, it is just the light of God, the total creative intelligence of Natural Law. The will of God, the Self of everyone, has been established as the reality of everyone’s Transcendental Consciousness—self-referral consciousness. Only the experience of that can make a man fulfil his thoughts and bring satisfaction to his life.

‘This formula that Dr Hagelin has described in terms of modern physical sciences has been proven without doubt, and has been practised by millions of people during the past 40, 50 years. This is the only way that an individual can rise to enlightenment, and society can rise above problems, difficulties, and suffering.

‘Whether in the name of religion, the physical sciences, the science of consciousness, or in the name of one’s own Self, the call of this press conference is for every man who has any intelligence within him. Whether he is a young man of 15, 20, 25, or 30 years of age, or a working man in an office who has free time morning and evening, whatever a man does, he is invited to explore this field of total, infinite creative intelligence within himself.

‘The procedure is simple, as we have been saying. . . . Dr Hagelin has come forward with such simplicity of expression on the scientific level, the religious level, and the non-religious level. It does not matter whether you are a man of faith in your religion or not; you have to have faith either in peace today or your own destruction. Choose one of the two.

‘Ask any questions, because my theories are very true. The procedure is very simple, and the application of it is in the hands of very great, expert scientists of America.’

Question: Winning the Peace

Dr Hagelin: ‘There is considerable concern in Washington on the subject of war and peace and national security. The first question asks how to win the peace.’ 

Maharishi: ‘To put an end to the destructive history of the world follow the techniques of the Peace Government. The President of the Peace Government, Dr Hagelin, wants 8,000 people practising Yogic Flying—half an hour or one hour, morning and evening. . . .

‘All my dear students of every university in Washington, ask for a place where you can come and practise Yogic Flying for half an hour or one hour, every day, morning and evening. . . .

‘Dr Hagelin, ask them to feel free to work with me now and ask questions in any manner—on the basis of religion, consciousness, physiology, politics, economics, or anything.’

Question: Practical Steps to Create Peace

Dr Hagelin: ‘The next questioner asks, “What is the first step that the US Peace Government will take in Washington, D.C.?” ’

Maharishi: ‘Young men of Washington, spend half an hour morning and evening practising the technology of the Unified Field. Instead of going to the university all the time, go rent some places that Raja Dean of Washington and Dr Hagelin would organize. Ask your parents to rent a house where for half an hour or one hour you can contact the supreme level of intelligence within yourself.’

Question: Unification in the World

Dr Hagelin: ‘Next is a question on globalization and the Global Country of World Peace. Economists talk of worldwide trends towards globalization. But at the same time, there also seems to be a trend of dissonant forces within nations to resist unification and globalization. How will the Peace Government and the Global Country of World Peace fulfil their mission of unifying a world where its peoples, religions, cultures, and countries are all so fiercely independent and sometimes even forcefully resist unification?’

Maharishi: ‘The only way to get out of this is for individuals to take it upon themselves to practise the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme including Yogic Flying, morning and evening, and thereby create an indomitable strength of harmony in world consciousness.

‘I am calling for every government to rise to invincibility with this experience.’

Question: Qualifications of an Effective Administrator

Dr Hagelin: ‘Maharishi said recently “Administration is a supreme science, a specialized knowledge, that should not be given to just any uneducated man on the streets.” The question is: What does a government leader need to know to make him a more effective administrator? What are the particular personal and professional qualifications that make an individual best suited to be the president of a Peace Government in any country?’

Maharishi: ‘The skill of administration is in the field of the strings, the Unified Field, the field of quantum mechanics, where fluctuations exist but they are vacuum fluctuations.

‘To understand vacuum fluctuations on the gross level, there is one example. Take the seed of a banyan tree. It is hollow inside, but from that hollowness, hollowness sprouts. What is the mechanism that makes that hollowness sprout within itself? It is the nonphysical fluctuations in the unmanifest field.

‘Just these few words are all that are important: unmanifest field and vacuum fluctuations in that unmanifest field. These vacuum fluctuations are the source of the creative process, where total Natural Law, the Unified Field, designs the expression of creation. From where? It designs creation from the unmanifest.

‘The unmanifest is open to one’s own mind in Transcendental Consciousness. In Transcendental Consciousness the unmanifest is captured by the mental process, when the finer fields of activity of the mind subside and the source of thought is fathomed. Now what is the source of thought? The unmanifest field of quantum fluctuations. These are called self-referral fluctuations—the self-referral process of creation. And the self-referral process of creation is the transcendental field of awareness. Transcendental Consciousness opens that to the human mind.

‘There is a theory describing this in physics called the theory of measurement. Wherever the attention goes, it enlivens the point of attention. The point of attention is a self-referral field and it is enlivened. The creative process is inherited, through this enlivenment, by the mind. Then, whatever thought is promoted by the mind is promoted by the total intelligence of Natural Law. This thought is consciously promoted by the Unified Field.

‘This whole game is the game of the unmanifest field. Those who have not been trained to take their mind to this self-referral Unified Field—where the mechanics of total Natural Law reside—can imagine it and can talk about it, but imagination will not give them that inheritance of total creativity of Natural Law, the will of God, for their every action to be supported by Nature. . . .

‘The reality of the peaceful administration of the universe is an eternal reality. It is that reality of the functioning of total Natural Law which manages the ever-expanding universe. Where is the ground for it? In the unmanifest field of the self-referral Unified Field which has been mathematically proven and practically demonstrated. This will take away the pangs of all the poverty and weakness of the human race in every field. It is a specialized field of administration. . . .

‘The president’s seat in every country is a seat of adoration. It inspires, and people adore it. In ancient times, the king represented the divine. He was royal divinity because he gave an education to his youngsters that opened their awareness to the field of all possibilities within themselves.

‘Instead of that, in all these universities, students are open to the libraries. And in all the libraries, the books are written by all the people who did not know how to manage their own lives. These books are taught to the students, thinking that the students will become wiser from reading the books written by those who did not know how to live their own lives. The whole of education has been precarious.’

Question: Approach of the US Peace Government

Dr Hagelin: ‘The US Peace Government has a plan to make the nation and the world more peaceful. But does it also have a plan to make corporations less greedy and opportunistic and more human friendly towards everyone?’

Maharishi: ‘Our programme is to improve the mental capacity of the individual. And that will be available not only in one phase of his life—family life, city life, national life, or the world life—but on all levels of life at the same time.

‘We are hitting at the fundamental level. In this programme, we water the root to enjoy the fruit—that is all. If one attends to the creativity of the mind, then the mind will be creative. That means it will be competent to bring fulfilment to its desires automatically. Once we have put on the switch and made a connection with the powerhouse, the running of the power is completely automatic.

This is the TM-Sidhi programme which you can understand from the physical scientific point of view, the mathematical point of view, the conceptual point of view, the technological point of view, and any point of view. You place every phase of your existence in the royal, divine direction of evolution and sit at the supreme level of the goal of this evolution automatically. It is a reality that has the value of science and is not gossip. This is also the light of God from the holy concept of religions. . . .’

Question: Signs of Success of the Peace Government

Dr Hagelin: ‘What will be the signs that the US Peace Government's programmes, once put in place, are working?’

Maharishi: ‘The policies of the US Government will be kind to other countries. . . .’

Question: Activities of the US Peace Government in Washington, D.C.

Dr Hagelin: ‘There is one more practical question for today. What will be done at the new national offices of the US Peace Government and the Royal Residence of Dr Dean Dodrill, the Raja of the Global Country of World Peace, here in Washington, D.C.?’

Maharishi: ‘They will give reminders to the people every morning, afternoon, and evening—just like we are doing today. They will be doing the same thing tomorrow and in the next days. . . .

‘We are acting with maximum effort, maximum goodwill, maximum sympathy, maximum support, and with maximum supreme knowledge. . . .

‘It is very good that the Peace Government has started to inform the people. We can only inform the people, that is all. You can only serve the good food to the people, but you cannot make them eat. . . .

‘Wish well to all the press and to the readers of the press, and wish well to the residents of the capital of USA. . . . Jai Guru Dev. All glory to Guru Dev.’