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Volume 3, Issue No. 1 |
September 2002 |
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Maharishi offers potent solution to global violence:
Groups of coherence-creating Yogic Flyers in 3,000 cities
Says that 10% of his target to create world peace has been achieved
Declares that education should teach students about the
unbounded potential of life and develop total brain functioning
(AUGUST 8) His Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi yesterday delivered a forceful, compelling message
to the world press that the crisis of violence—which could engulf the
globe at any moment—will never be resolved through police or military
might, or through peace talks. The only solution is to eliminate the
cause of violence, which is the acute stress gripping individuals and
the whole world. And that, Maharishi said, can be easily accomplished by
creating groups of people practicing his peace-promoting Transcendental
Meditation and Yogic Flying in cities around the globe.
Maharishi addressed an
attentive audience. He was speaking to press who regularly cover
violence in their own countries, including reporters from Israel, Iraq,
Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, and India.
Maharishi’s message came
during his eighth consecutive weekly global news conference. Scores of
reporters participated via satellite, Internet webcast, and
teleconference call. A network of local news conferences was also held
simultaneously in 41 cities worldwide.
During the 100-minute
question-and-answer session, which ranged from politics and religion to
science and education, Maharishi assessed the impact of his worldwide
Transcendental Meditation movement over the past 50 years in creating a
more peaceful world. Citing the end of the Cold War and the fall of the
Berlin Wall as indications of growing global harmony, Maharishi said
that he is now 10% of the way towards achieving his goal. How quickly
the world progresses towards peace will depend upon how quickly people
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Press has a great responsibility
Maharishi clearly enjoyed
the news conference and acknowledged the seriousness of the many
questions posed by the press. He also charged the press with the
responsibility of accurately reporting the changing times in the
world—the shift from widespread negativity to signs of rising
positivity, from destruction to dawning peace. “Through the power of
your words you guide the people in their thinking. The press has a big
role to play in the transformation of time—a very great responsibility,”
Maharishi said.
Individual is the unit of world peace
In his opening remarks,
Maharishi pointed to the individual as the key to creating world peace—
and said that all efforts to create peace must start there. “A stressed
individual is the unit of a stressed world,” Maharishi said. “On the
other hand, a healthy, fulfilled individual is the unit of a peaceful,
healthy, affluent world. Our program—Transcendental Meditation, its
advanced techniques, and Yogic Flying—naturally unfolds an individual’s
unbounded inner potential and eliminates stress from daily life. This is
the basis for creating a peaceful family of nations.”
Two strategies of
Maharishi’s peace plan
Maharishi then outlined the
two strategies of his global efforts to create world peace: (1) teaching
his Transcendental Meditation to students in schools to develop their
total brain functioning, and
(2) establishing groups of people in every country and every major city
to collectively practice his Vedic technologies of consciousness.
“Our objective is to create
in each of the world’s largest 3,000 cities a group of 100-200 Yogic
Flyers—and to establish one large group of 40,000 experts in India,
which will serve as a powerful torchlight of positivity for the whole
world consciousness,” Maharishi said. “Creating coherence is the only
way to remedy the world’s problems.”
Deepest level of
Nature’s functioning
Maharishi explained how the
groups will generate peace. “They will enliven the deepest level of
Nature’s functioning, the Unified Field of Natural Law—the Will of
God—which administers the ever-expanding universe without a problem.
Through their daily performances, these groups will create indomitable
coherence in world consciousness, eliminating acute social stress—which
fuels violence and conflict—and promoting peace and harmony in the
family of nations.”
Maharishi said that not
everyone in the world has to participate to create world peace.
“Research shows that just a few people are needed to create peace. They
will dive deep within themselves and explore their own unbounded ‘Atma,’
the Self. As a byproduct of this blissful experience, they will create a
stress-free, problem-free nation. Their influence on the environment
will be as concrete as turning on a bright light in a dark room,”
Maharishi said. “Problems in the country will simply disappear, just as
darkness disappears with the onset of light.”
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Total brain functioning
Maharishi identified the
source of the acute stress rising in the world to be inadequate
education in every country. “Education today does not provide students
with the experience of Transcendental Consciousness—the fourth major
state of human consciousness—and therefore does not develop total brain
functioning in the student.” And a partially functioning brain,
Maharishi added, leads to narrow thinking, an unfulfilling life, and
stressed, violent behavior.
“Study of the physical
sciences—physics, chemistry, biology—does not touch the field of
consciousness,” Maharishi said. “Education must be updated to become
Consciousness-Based Education, which provides both the experience and
the knowledge of consciousness. This will create ideal citizens who will
spontaneously think and act according to the evolutionary power of
Natural Law. They won’t make mistakes—they won’t create problems for
themselves and for society.”
Maharishi said that when
students in schools collectively practice these Vedic technologies of
consciousness, “they will generate such a thick influence of coherence
in national consciousness that the government will only administer
rightly. Nothing will go wrong—there will be no crime, so the government
will not be forced to punish anyone,” Maharishi said.
Government of Natural
Law
Maharishi emphasized that
the success of his program does not depend upon the participation of any
government. “Coherence can be generated irrespective of the
government—this is a great finding. Each group will bring support of
Natural Law to their nation. In this way we will create a second,
prevention-oriented Government of Natural Law that will complement the
current national government. This will raise the country’s man-made
constitution, with its inherent human weaknesses and failings, to the
level of God-made constitution, which administers the infinite diversity
of the universe with perfect order,” Maharishi said. “This is our
formula to create Heaven on Earth.” |
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Additional highlights
from Maharishi’s news conference
On why there is violence
in the schools:
“It depends on how a child is educated. Conflict and cruelty are the
result of an undeveloped intelligence and mind. If the children are not
properly educated, if they have not developed their full brain
potential, then their wild growth will eat up the nation and themselves.
That has been the situation in America for a long time.”
On what students should
know: “That life
is bliss. That they are born to rule the world, to have the light of God
awake within them, and to be capable of fulfilling their desires. Let
this education—this Vedic education—be given to the children, and the
whole population will rise in the supreme dignity of life, which is
urgently needed to ensure the safety and growth of the individual and of
the nation.”
On the military:
“I would like to see every country without a military. Period. This is
because the military is not competent to defend the country against an
enemy that cannot be seen, or against a missile that can come and put
the whole society to ashes. The military is only competent to die and
kill. And both are a sin: getting oneself killed is a sin, and killing
another is a sin. It’s a very ignorant approach to defense. Prevention
is the only way to defend the nation, and the only effective prevention
is Vedic defense, which prevents the birth of an enemy.”
On selling arms:
“The goal of warmonger nations like the U.S., Britain, and Germany is to
create and maintain fear in the world and sell their arms. This is what
is happening in Israel, in Northern Ireland, everywhere. Unless world
consciousness rises in coherence, all this destruction will just
continue. Selling arms is a shameful profession. Arms dealers tell
defense ministers: ‘Your neighbor has this new fighter plane and that
new missile, so you must have them, too, or your security will be
jeopardized.’ Even poor countries go deeply in debt purchasing these
weapons. It’s shameful for arms-sellers to live on the killing of
others.”
On peaceful coexistence:
“What matters to the world is the peaceful coexistence of all nations,
and we are going to create that through our friendship with Natural Law,
the Will of God. There is a God for America; there is a God for the
Middle East; there is a God for China; there is a God for every
country—and fortunately it came out to be the same one God for all of
them. That is our strength.”
On the wisdom of the
gardener: “When
the gardener sees the leaves withering, he pours a bucket of water at
the root. He handles the root, because it’s not possible to handle all
the thousands of leaves. All problems can be solved by handling one’s
own consciousness, one’s own mind. Transcendental Meditation handles the
mind very beautifully. The world will be a better world when the
individual—the unit of world peace—is properly educated. We are going to
create world peace. We will produce peace through these
coherence-creating groups—not by talking about it.” |
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Middle East crisis can be
resolved overnight,
Peaceful
approach will reduce ethnic and religious tensions that fuel violence
Maharishi to warn both
sides of Middle East conflict:
“Killing is always a sin and the killers have an open door to hell”
(JULY 29) The Middle East
crisis will never end through military force or brokered peace
agreements. But it can be resolved overnight once the war-torn region
has a “lighthouse of coherence”—a group of 800-1000 people practicing
Maharishi’s Vedic technologies of peace.
Maharishi will deliver this message, and
outline his plan to establish these groups in every country and major
city of the world, during a global news conference to be held on
Wednesday, July 31. Dr. John Hagelin, world-renowned quantum physicist
and Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World
Peace, will also speak during the news conference. Dr. Hagelin will
present the extensive scientific research, published in the world’s top
journals, which demonstrates that group practice of Maharishi’s
Transcendental Meditation, its advanced techniques, and Yogic Flying
reduces the acute ethnic and religious tensions which fuel crime and
violence, and promotes peace throughout society.
In a recent interview with the Jerusalem
Post, Maharishi dismissed the arguments justifying the bloodshed that
have arisen on both sides of the Middle East conflict. Maharishi said,
“Killing, for whatever reason, is killing—and killing is always a sin.
That is the truth of every religion. Harm anyone and the gate of hell is
open to you after life; do virtuous things and the gate of heaven is
open. And if the president of a country says, ‘But I have to do this
killing,’ fine: do it and the gate of hell will be open to you as well.”
Maharishi
said the Middle East conflict is created by ignorant people, not by
religious differences. “Deep within everyone is the light of God, which
every religion has been teaching throughout time. But somehow the whole
majesty of God’s grace fell into the hands of the incompetent leaders of
the world who say, ‘This is my country, and if you enter into my country
I’ll kill you.’ It’s barbarism—and the world has had this throughout the
ages. Physiologically, all men are almost the same—and deep inside
everyone is the same field of pure consciousness. Man is made in the
image of God. The fight is not a religious fight: it’s the fight of
absurd people,” Maharishi said.
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Maharishi calls for TM in every school
and a group of Yogic Flyers in every city
“The only way to
permanently stop crime and terrorism”
Announces Poverty Removal
Program for 40 poorest nations
(JULY 25) His Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi announced yesterday a simple, practical formula to
root out crime and terrorism and create permanent world peace: Teach
Transcendental Meditation in every school so that students develop their
full brain physiology, and establish in every city a group of Yogic
Flyers to eliminate acute social stress and crime and to promote
positivity and coherence throughout the world.
Maharishi delivered details of the plan
during a news conference with members of the world press that was
broadcast live from Meru, Holland, via satellite, Internet webcast, and
teleconference call. The news conference followed a global celebration
honoring the Vedic tradition of India, the custodians of the complete
scientific knowledge of Vedic Science—Total Natural Law—the knowledge of
the full potential of life that Maharishi has brought to millions of
people around the world during the past 50 years.
The individual is cosmic
Maharishi opened the news conference by
providing the Vedic perspective on the unbounded dignity of human life:
“Inherent in everyone is Total Natural Law, the light of God. That means
everyone’s inner intelligence is cosmic, and through Transcendental
Meditation one can bring the cosmic value of one’s own inner
intelligence into all aspects of life. It’s a very simple technique to
develop higher states of consciousness and live perfection in daily
life.”
In contrast, Maharishi offered a
one-sentence description of the non-Vedic life: “They are the destroyers
of the world—and there are many such destroyers in the world today.”
Maharishi announced that he will create in
every country large groups of people practicing his Vedic technologies
of consciousness to create a powerful influence of harmony and coherence
in society, thereby neutralizing the negativity of the “destroyers” and
creating a problem-free world. “We are out to create in every nation an
atmosphere of peace and harmony, where crime and negativity are absent
and where man-made constitutions will be supported by the God-made
constitution—Total Natural Law.”
Maharishi commented on the ineffectiveness
of national constitutions, saying, “Every government is administered by
man-made laws, and because man-made laws are humanly conceived, they
will always have human weaknesses and failings. This is why there is so
much crime, punishment, and poverty everywhere. Through our program to
establish groups of people practicing Transcendental Meditation, its
advanced techniques, and Yogic Flying around the world, we are raising
man-made laws to be on a par with the supreme efficiency and
effectiveness of God-made law—which administers the ever-expanding
universe with perfect order and without a problem.” |
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Punishment is criminal
Maharishi then turned to a discussion of
crime and punishment. He shifted the responsibility for criminal
behavior away from the individual and put it on the government, calling
the government’s policy of punishing offenders “sinful, criminal, and
fraudulent.”
“If two people fight on the street, whose
fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility
because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes.
The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make
mistakes—and then government punishes them! It is such a fraud,”
Maharishi said.
Total brain functioning
Maharishi targeted modern education as the
primary cause of criminal behavior. “Education today develops only
partial use of the brain because it presents knowledge in a fragmented
manner. Partial use of the brain means partial achievements in life, and
with only partial achievements, a man will never be satisfied. He will
keep creating problems for himself and for others.
“Only the experience of Transcendental
Consciousness—the experience of the infinite, unbounded, unmanifest
field of life—utilizes the total brain and thereby develops the brain
fully,” Maharishi said. “Government already educates the people, so why
not educate them to use their full brain physiology?”
Transcendental Meditation in schools
One reporter asked Maharishi how he would
stop crime.
“Prevention is the only way to stop crime
and terrorism,” Maharishi said. “You kill one culprit today, and
there’ll be two more the next day. Governments have tried to stop crime
through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the
past—as it will continue in the future if punishment remains. Crime can
only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach
the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin
using their full brain physiology—their thinking will be sensible and
they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.”
Maharishi also responded to a recent news
report from CNN showing that nearly one in every ten schools in America
has been classified as a “failing institution.”
“Since I first came to the U.S. over 40
years ago, I have been saying, ‘Put TM in the classes. Put TM in the
classes.’ I am still saying the same thing now—and if I live for
thousands of years, I will say the same thing. But no one listened then,
and now they are reaping the consequences,” Maharishi said.
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Groups of Yogic Flyers in every country
In addition to teaching Transcendental
Meditation in the schools, Maharishi said his plan calls for
establishing coherence-creating groups in every country and every major
city in the world. He said that he spent 15 years trying to convince
governments to help but eventually realized that this was a waste of
time—and has now decided to create the groups on his own.
“Government leaders could not understand our
message—they are not knowledgeable about life; they don’t know how the
brain functions; they don’t understand science or religion. So we are
going ahead on our own—we are establishing large coherence-creating
groups in India and everywhere in the world. These groups will purify
world consciousness, and this will eliminate crime, conflict, and war.
The groups won’t be involved with the day-to-day man-made administration
of the country. They will simply create the desirable level of coherence
in the collective consciousness, and that will make things right and
positive in the country.”
In the U.S., facilities are already under
construction in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, for 8,000 Vedic
experts—primarily students and retired people—who would move there from
around the country to practice Maharishi’s Vedic technologies of
consciousness together in a group, develop their full brain physiology,
and, as a side benefit, create a peaceful world. In addition, Maharishi
plans to establish in every major city one or more smaller
coherence-creating groups, from 20-30 people to 100-200 people. He is
encouraging local “well-wishers” of peace to support these groups. “If
these groups are established, the country will grow in prosperity and
peace. If they aren’t, I don’t know what will happen to the government
and the future of the country.”
Poverty Removal Program
For the 40 poorest countries in the world,
Maharishi announced a new program that not only will establish a
permanent coherence-creating group but also will eliminate poverty. The
Poverty Removal Program of Maharishi’s Global Country of World Peace
calls for the cultivation of unused agricultural land in these 40
nations to produce the world’s healthiest foods through Maharishi’s
Vedic organic agriculture—and with the profits, sustain a group of Yogic
Flyers in the country.
“The group will create coherence in the
national consciousness—and the first beneficiary will be the government,
which will have more law-abiding, sensible citizens. The God-made
constitution will support and enrich the man-made constitution—bringing
automation in administration and prosperity and peace to the whole
nation,” Maharishi said. “From my experience of 50 years in the world,
this is the most sensible solution to the global problems of poverty and
negativity.”
“A long stretch of a very good time on earth”
Maharishi concluded the news conference by
answering a reporter’s question as to whether the knowledge and
technologies of Vedic science had ever flourished on earth—and created
an ideal society.
“The history of Vedic
knowledge records a very long stretch of time of ideal life on earth,”
Maharishi said. “I am following those same footsteps. I am going to
create a long stretch of a very good time on earth. And I invite the
press to take the message of peace and happiness to every corner of the
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World is
in transition from destruction
to peace, Maharishi proclaims
“Long bloody history of war is coming to an end”
Honors the Vedic tradition
of India for the knowledge that is transforming the world
After teaching his
Transcendental Meditation technique to millions of people around the world
for nearly 50 years, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi clearly sees the
effect: “Purity in world consciousness is rising and a new time of peace
and prosperity is dawning.” Adds Maharishi, “I am aware of the long bloody
history of wars, but that is coming to an end. The world is now in a phase
transition from destruction to invincibility—to permanent peace.”
Maharishi celebrated the achievements of
his worldwide Transcendental Meditation movement during a special global
news conference on July 24 to be broadcast live via satellite, Internet webcast,
and teleconference
Maharishi will honor the Vedic tradition of
India, which has safeguarded the profound wisdom of life—the knowledge and
technologies of the Vedic Science of Consciousness—which Maharishi is
implementing throughout the world to create permanent peace on earth.
“I have in my possession from the Vedic
masters of India the complete knowledge of Veda—the deepest level of
Nature’s functioning, Total Natural Law—and the practical, proven
technologies to apply this field to bring perfection to life,” Maharishi
said. “I am establishing ‘lighthouses of coherence’—large groups of people
who will practice Transcendental Meditation and the TM-Sidhi program,
including Yogic Flying, to enliven Veda, Total Natural Law, in world
consciousness, and thereby create health and happiness for every
individual, and peace and prosperity for the world.”
Maharishi emphasized that his peace effort is
global: “Even if one country remains stressed and without a group, world
peace will be shaken—just as a little thorn can throw off the balance of
the whole body.”
Dismissing the challenges to
peace posed by “warmongering nations,” Maharishi said, “Our strength is
that darkness does not have to disappear first before light comes. We
create light and darkness goes away. We create peace and the warmongers
disappear. We create groups in every country—we place a lamp here and a
lamp there—and that is how we will build up harmony in world consciousness
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“Bush and other destroyers have
an open door to hell,” Maharishi warns
Says prevention is
the only solution
(JULY 22) On the eve of a global celebration honoring the Vedic tradition
of India for the peace-producing knowledge that is transforming the world,
His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi issued a stern warning to the leaders
of arms-producing, warmongering nations: “You create destruction, and then
after life you have an open door to hell.”
With President Bush threatening war against
Iraq and promoting first-strike capability against any country his
administration deems a menace, Maharishi said, “The president is openly
promoting destruction: ‘Whoever comes across my way I will kill him.’ It
shows a lack of knowledge of science, a lack of knowledge of religion. It
is wild thinking.
“Prevention is the only solution in this world
of destruction created by these warmongering nations,” Maharishi said.
Maharishi to create world peace
Maharishi announced last week that he would
create world peace on his own and no longer seek government support for
his plan. He is establishing in every country “lighthouses of
coherence”—groups of people practicing his Transcendental Meditation and
TM-Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying—with a very large group in India.
“Through their daily practice, these experts
will enliven the deepest level of Nature’s functioning—the Unified Field
of Natural Law, the Veda—and radiate positivity, coherence, and harmony in
world consciousness,” Maharishi said. “With the rise of purity in world
consciousness, problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the
onset of light.”
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