The Science of Creative Intelligence upholds both means of gaining knowledge: objective through scientific methods of experimentation, and subjective through the daily experience of pure consciousness.

Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence and the means of gaining knowledge
by Global Good News staff writer
17 August 2009

This lecture from Maharishi’s 33-lesson course on the Science of Creative Intelligence was given by Maharishi on 12 June 1972, at Fiuggi Fonte, Italy.

Maharishi explained that the nature of Creative Intelligence incorporates within its fold the whole range of creation. He said that human awareness can open to the pure nature of Creative Intelligence through the Science of Creative Intelligence and its practical aspect, the Transcendental Meditation Programme.

Science requires a non-variable means of gaining knowledge to ensure that knowledge is non-variable and therefore authentic. Such a system of gaining knowledge will be systematic and reliable and will produce true knowledge.

There are two approaches to gaining knowledge—objective and subjective. The objective means of knowledge is a non-variable means of gaining knowledge through scientific procedures.

The subjective means of gaining knowledge is based upon the subjectivity of the knower, which is always changing in the relative states of consciousness—waking, dreaming, and sleeping.

‘The seventh state of consciousness, Unity Consciousness, is non-changing in its nature,’ Maharishi said. ‘Knowledge gained on this level of consciousness is non-variable, reliable, and complete.

‘Only complete knowledge will be fulfilling. The objective approach to knowledge cannot bring total fulfilment, because this approach can only reveal specific, limited values of the object.’

Maharishi explained that in Unity Consciousness the infinite, unbounded value of the object opens to awareness. ‘When the abstract, unmanifest value of the Absolute is perceived in every object, then knowledge is complete. This is how the subjective means of gaining knowledge makes knowledge fulfilling,’ Maharishi said.

By developing the pure field of Creative Intelligence in our awareness, the Science of Creative Intelligence serves as the most profound means of gaining knowledge.

‘Knowledge is structured in consciousness,’ Maharishi continued. ‘Only when consciousness is comprehensive can knowledge be comprehensive.’

The Science of Creative Intelligence upholds both means of gaining knowledge: objective through scientific methods of experimentation, and subjective through the daily experience of pure consciousness. In this way the Science of Creative Intelligence offers to every individual the benefit of both systems of gaining knowledge.

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