June 2001

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Akshaya Tritiya,
the Day of Lasting Achievements

An Ideal System of Administration of Human Life on Earth

It’s a great fortunate time for the world that we are inaugurating today the ideal system of administration of human life on earth that will create a problem-free world. The inauguration by King Nader Raam of the administration of the Global Country of World Peace is an administration that will be capable of preventing problems for anyone on the individual level, and anyone on the national level. The history of the world for thousands of centuries has been one of problems. From the great Vedic Tradition of Masters we have been blessed with Total Knowledge of Natural Law, and we have been giving out to the world a simple procedure for everyone to align his awareness to that Cosmic Intelligence which governs the infinite diversity of the universe with perfect order, and without a problem.

The Administration of Nature

In the administration of Nature, everything is evolving; everything is being nourished by the total Creative Intelligence of Natural Law, which makes everyone evolve to the supreme level of evolution of life. King Nader Raam has described it in terms of the Vedic exhortation about the total value of human life: Aha Brahmasmi —I am Totality. This age-old philosophy has been the ideal for every human being throughout the world—no matter to what religion he belongs or what language he speaks—every individual in reality is Cosmic in his potential. Yet in his daily life he is not living that Cosmic potential. The administration of King Nader Raam is rising to create that administration which will make every nation, and the residents of every nation, not have to face problems. It’s a very great day today in the history of mankind, to have come out to say, "Life is Bliss." No one has to face those values of life that do not belong to life—suffering, problems.

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Read a Song Offered to His Majesty King Nader Raam From the TM Movement in Lebanon

A New System of Administration

It’s a very great day for us to start putting to practice a system of administration, which we enjoy saying, is a system of enriching the innumerable facets of life of everyone, in every age, throughout the world. No one should face negative values, or generate conflict and problems for himself or for anyone else. We are very happy to know that the first ruler of the coming Age of Enlightenment is a very great scientist, whose research in physiology has given us the theme of creation and evolution on the level of the Self of everyone—the Unified Field—expressed in terms of Vedic language, which is the language of the fluctuations of consciousness. From Vedic science and from modern science, the ultimate reality is the Unified Field—quantum field, self-referral field. So modern science and ancient Vedic science both come together in our awareness, and we have a scientist who has taken courage to create an administration for the Global Country of World Peace.

The Message of King Nader Raam

Today is the day to rejoice in our stroke of brilliance in creating an administration which will be an ideal example for every government in the world of today and tomorrow. The governments will not have to face problems. Now King Nader Raam has started to speak out his message in the Vedic language, a language that will weave the carpet of peace perpetual. He has ascended to that position where he has 40 Ministries in the light of the 40 administrative values of Vedic recitation. His Majesty King Nader Raam has discovered the Veda, which is the discovery of the process of evolution, how evolutionary impulses of consciousness evolve. The Vedic exhortation is: Jivo Brahmaiva naparah. The jiva—the individual— is Brahm, Totality. How is this possible? Because every step of evolution of the individual jiva is in tune with that unbounded field of intelligence. We call it a "slippery field," the field of total life, where any impulse in one place is an impulse in all places. Here is the secret of Nature: Within the reality of the individual is the lively potential of the Cosmic universe.

Parliaments of World Peace

Parliaments to Introduce ‘World-Transforming’
Knowledge for Problem-Free Administration

To Feature One-Hour Daily Broadcasts of the
Maharishi Channel Global Satellite System

Every Nation Invited to Become a Member
of the Global Country of World Peace

 “These Parliaments of World Peace will represent the voice of the people—
 the peace-loving majority in the world today.”—Maharishi

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi launched the next major phase of activity for his worldwide Transcendental Meditation Movement—a landmark step in the concrete realization of his 50 years of global efforts to “bring enlightenment to every individual and peace perpetual to the world.” Beginning Thursday, June 14, World Peace Parliaments will be held on a daily basis all over the world—at the local, regional, national and global levels. The Parliaments are being held under the auspices of the Global Country of World Peace and its first sovereign ruler, His Majesty King Nader Raam. “For there to be world peace, there must be peace on the level of the family, community, the nation, and the world,” said Maharishi, who founded the Global Country of World Peace in October 2000. “These local Parliaments of World Peace will be the units of the Global Parliament of World Peace.”

According to Dr. Hagelin, the Minister of Science and Technology, “The World Peace Parliaments will serve as the functioning government of the Global Country of World Peace at the local level. “These Parliaments will offer profound knowledge and proven, prevention-oriented solutions, giving every nation the means to effectively prevent societal problems, and enjoy ‘Automation in Administration,’” Dr. Hagelin said. “This will be accomplished primarily through education—‘Administration through Education.’” His Majesty King Nader Raam is the world’s foremost neuroscientist, who discovered that the human physiology is a direct, material reflection of the field of consciousness, the field traditionally known as Veda, which in the language of modern physics is the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature.

King Nader Raam’s discovery shows that, through proper education, every individual can have direct access to the Unified Field—the source of all the laws of nature governing the Universe—in the simplest form of human awareness. “Access to this Unified Field brings mastery over Natural Law,” His Majesty said. “Ideal education—Vedic Education—delivers the fruit of all knowledge: mistake-free, problem-free life—action fully in accord with all the Laws of Nature,” King Nader Raam explained. “We are founding ideal universities and educational institutions all over the world, to achieve Automation in Administration—‘Administration through Education.’”

Every Nation Invited to Become a Member of the Global Country of World Peace

King Nader Raam invited heads of state from around the world to become members of the Global Country of World Peace.  “Each member nation will receive the scientific knowledge and practical, proven programs to solve and prevent societal problems, to eradicate poverty, strengthen the economy, and achieve national invincibility,” His Majesty said.

Daily Broadcasts

Each day, the Global Parliaments of World Peace will be broadcast worldwide over the Maharishi Channel and the Maharishi Open University global satellite network, connecting to Parliaments of World Peace held locally throughout the world. Civic and community leaders—mayors, doctors, educators, and lawyers—have been invited to participate. “The purpose of the Parliaments of World Peace is not to compete with, or replace, the current functions of government, whose primary focus has been coping with the nation’s critical problems,” Dr. Hagelin said. “The purpose of the Parliaments of World Peace will be to prevent problems from arising. We will make the administration of every nation simple.”

Schedule of Broadcasts

 The daily World Peace Parliament broadcasts will be one-hour in length, beginning Thursday, June 14. (Thursday’s inaugural broadcast will be longer—approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes—and will include remarks by Maharishi.)

-  Inaugural Broadcast—The broadcast of the inaugural session of the World Peace Parliament on Thursday, June 14, will be from 3:00 - 6:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT in the USA) on all Maharishi Open University global satellites, and also from 18:00 - 20:40 (EDT) in the Americas only.

-  Daily Broadcasts—The regular daily broadcasts of the World Peace Parliament will be from 4:00 - 5:00 AM (EDT) on all Maharishi Open University satellites, and also from 19:00 - 20:00 (EDT) in the Americas only.

-  Online—Broadcasts can also be viewed at www.globalcountry.org.

TM Activities in Arab Gulf Area

Lebanon is considered to be a very active country among all the 22 Arab countries, which constitute the Arab World. This quality on the national level is also applicable on the level of the TM Movement. Our people in all the Arab Countries believe that they are all one nation, but this nation has been divided into 22 countries due to foreign political influences after the World War I and II. The Arabic language is the mother tongue of the 22 Arab Countries, for this reason it is easy for the TM Movement in Lebanon to expand rapidly in all the Arab Countries. From Lebanon, many Governors traveled to Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and now in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

Kuwait, The Prototypical Oil State

When the Iraqis were driven out in early 1991 and reconstruction work began in the ruins of Kuwait City, the government quickly became obsessed with meticulously re-creating the country's pre-invasion appearance - right down to the pink marble steps at the entrance to Kuwait City's leading five-star hotel. With the war a fading memory, Kuwait is once again the prototypical oil state, and travelers looking for a relaxed entry into the Muslim world can expect their share of mosques, souks and other sandy traces of bygone Bedouin days. Tiny Kuwait sits at the north-western tip of the Persian Gulf, bordered to the north and west by Iraq and to the south by Saudi Arabia. It's about the size of Slovenia or the US state of New Jersey. Kuwait's land is mostly flat and arid with little or no ground water. The desert is generally gravelly, and the only vegetation in existence is scrub. In the summer (April to September) Kuwait is hellishly hot; its only saving grace is that it's nowhere near as humid as its neighbors. The winter months are often pleasant, featuring some of the region's coolest weather, with daytime temperatures hovering around 18°C (64°F) and nights being genuinely chilly. Sandstorms occur throughout the year but are particularly common in spring.

Development of the Collective Consciousness in Kuwait

Many meditators are living in Kuwait, they are from different nationalities. Due to their practice of the TM Program, we can observe clearly the development of collective consciousness year after year. The number of mediatators who are living in Kuwait is always increasing,  Wadie Haider, the Governor who was visiting his family members in Kuwait in the last March said: "This time I feel that the collective consciousness is more aware and developed, the Maharishi Channel and the internet campaigns that we did from our TM Center in Beirut, both gave fruitful results on the level of new meditators and also on the level of old meditators who have learned TM since the 70's in Kuwait, I was able to meet some of them, after that they contacted us through our email address in Beirut, and I was very happy to know that they are still practicing TM all these years, this I consider to be a good sign for the future of TM in Kuwait. Another good sign is that six meditators have applied for the coming TM-Sidhi course that it is organized in Lebanon to start by the end of June, after they will become sidhas they will do the group program in Kuwait to enliven the collective consciousness, and step by step we will have an invincible Kuwait.

A Trip to United Arab Emirates

My trip to United Arab Emirates was not planned, Mr. Wadie Haider said. During my trip to Kuwait, I have been contacted by Mr. Salim Haddad, the coordinator at our center in Beirut to inform me about the importance of going to Dubai to do a public conference on TM there, for those who contacted us enquiring about TM. At our center in Beirut we received around 75 enquires on TM from UAE, and some numbers from Muscat, Bahrain, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. These countries will be our next target until all the area becomes enlightened, Mr. Haider said. When I decided to go to Dubai, all those from UAE have been given my email address, and quickly they started the preparations for the Visa and the reservation for my accommodation and the conference. The Visa was only for 15 days, and I used these 15 days to teach three groups for a total of 20 meditators. One of the groups was the Hindash family where the majority of its members became maditators. It was really a joyful experience in a country that I visited for the first time.

A Union of Seven Sovereign Sheikhdoms

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a union of seven sovereign sheikhdoms, formed when the British withdrew from the Gulf in 1971. Travel agents are beginning to promote it as that much hyped 'land of contrasts'. There's a grain of truth in the cliché this time round, for it boasts mountains, beaches, deserts, oases, camel racing, Bedouin markets and the legendary duty free shopping of Dubai, all packed into a relatively small area. If you only visit one country in the Gulf, the UAE is your best choice: it has the most relaxed entry regulations in the region, the best tourist infrastructure and, despite promoting itself exclusively to tourists with a buck or three to spend, it's extremely accessible to independent budget travelers. The United Arab Emirates occupies the rhinoceros horn that protrudes into the Persian Gulf from the north-eastern tip of the Arabian peninsula. It's bordered by Saudi Arabia in the south and east, and Oman in the west. Its northern coast faces Iran across the Persian Gulf, while Qatar is just 50km (30mi) to the north-west. The seven emirates are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al Qaiwain. Combined, they cover an area roughly the same size as Portugal. The Emirate of Abu Dhabi represents 85% of this total; the smallest of the emirates, Ajman, measures only 250 sq km (100 sq mi).

Much of the interior of the UAE is featureless desert, running to the edges of the Empty Quarter, the largest sand desert in the world, which occupies south-eastern Saudi Arabia. The UAE's coastal areas are marked by salt flats, while the northern and eastern sections of the country are green and inviting with striking mountain scenery. Fauna includes the Arabian leopard and ibex, but you're unlikely to see more than camels and wild goats. In spring and autumn flocks of birds migrating from Central Asia and East Africa can sometimes be seen in the country's north. Outside of the mountainous areas of Fujairah and Ras al-Khaimah, much of the UAE's vegetation is the result of the government's 'greenery' program: even the natural groves of date palms in the Buraimi Oasis on the country's eastern border have been supplemented by acres of grass and trees planted in municipal parks. From May to September humidity is high and daytime temperatures commonly hover around 40°C (105°F) in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. In the eastern coastal cities of Fujairah and Khor Fakkan, the climate is slightly less hostile thanks to occasional breezes; the mountains above Ras al-Khaimah also provide some relief. Average daily high temperatures drop to the more comfortable 22-30°C (70-85°F) range for the rest of the year, though it can be very windy in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah and very cold in the desert areas around Al-Ain. Rainfall is non-existent between May and October, and negligible for much of the rest of the year - though it can turn foul in December and January, which can make getting around tricky.