Global Good News: Excellence in Action

Maharishi spoke about ‘the parental role of the government’, which he said is to administer through love, and through the ability to care and to provide the children with anything they need. ‘This is the parental role of the government and the parents,’ he said.

He explained that a government fulfils all these needs by giving the knowledge of total Natural Law within the consciousness of everyone, in their own self-referral Unified Field, through education. ‘Then the government will have made them responsible to be naturally surcharged with the support of the invincible power of Natural Law.

‘Education is just like someone telling a person, “There is a treasure in your house.” By just giving the information, the man is made wealthy.

‘This is what the government has to do to make the individual recognize, on the level of his mind and intellect, the tremendous power and energy within himself. The government has to give just this information and knowledge to the children. Then the children will always be rich, wealthy, and completely self-sufficient.

‘They will not create difficulties for themselves because they will not be faced with problems. They will be floating in success all the time, just with that awareness.’

It is through education that the government simply gives that awareness. It all depends on what kind of education the government gives its children.

‘It is as if the government gives the children a house, but does not tell them that there is a treasure in a room underground,’ Maharishi continued. ‘Giving them a house is all right, but if the awareness of the treasury underground in one room is not made clear to them, then they will never be fulfilled or satisfied living in the house. . . .

‘[The government has] to trigger Cosmic Intelligence in the awareness of the student. Without this, the individual is roaming about in poverty in search of wealth. He is the owner of wealth in reality, but just not knowing it, he is poor. . . .

‘It all depends how soon individuals take up our programme and raise the nation to invincibility, whether with the government or regardless of the government. Life is individual life, but a government can certainly help life to be in affluence through proper education.

‘It does not matter which family is ours. The children are ours; this generation is ours; and future generations are going to be our children. We are laying out Total Knowledge with proper care for our future family.

‘It does not matter what there is in the present. We rejoice in our doing. Because we can do it, we are doing it for our own joy. It is not a favour to anyone; it is our own delight, that is all.’

"The potential of every student is infinite. The time of student life should serve to unfold that infinite potential so that every individual becomes a vibrant centre of Total Knowledge."—Maharishi