Education has focused only on learning, without regard for the learner, the student. The Absolute Theory of Education expands the consciousness of the learner and allows him to experience his own unbounded awareness, which is a field of all possibilities.

Innovation in education
by Global Good News staff writer
28 December 2007

In Theme Two of his lectures presented in the pocket-sized books Maharishi Speaks to Students: Mastery over Natural Law, Maharishi speaks about his Absolute Theory of Education.

Maharishi’s Absolute Theory of Education can transform a student into a fully enlightened individual, blossoming in his infinite creativity. This will correct the misunderstanding that life is a struggle and that to err is human.

‘Education should make life blossom in its full dignity,’ Maharishi said, ‘so that one does not make mistakes or create problems for oneself or for society. However, no system of education today creates such an educated man. We want to offer to the world invincible education, an education that can never fail.’

Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Technique, the practical aspect of his Absolute Theory of Education, is a natural procedure that leads a man to enlightenment through the process of transcending, in which the mind experiences progressively finer levels of thought until the finest level of thought is transcended and pure awareness is gained.

In the past, education focused only on learning, without regard for the learner, the student. The Absolute Theory of Education expands the consciousness of the learner and enables him to grasp a greater range of knowledge; it starts with whatever ability the student has and allows him to experience his own unbounded awareness, which is a field of all possibilities.

‘This creates a fertile ground for learning’ Maharishi said. ‘We want to introduce into education knowledge of the knower—consciousness. Education for higher consciousness will take the attention inwards to the absolute value of consciousness.

‘When the absolute value of pure consciousness is maintained even while the attention flows outwards, then the conscious mind is very powerful because it is attuned with the infinite Creative Intelligence which is the character of absolute consciousness,’ Maharishi said.

In this age which Maharishi has called 'the age of ignorance', when attention always used to remain in the outward direction, education also remained concerned only with the outside field of life. General education did not provide that knowledge which could enable active consciousness to derive nourishment from the unbounded value of creativity present within its own silent levels.

‘We certainly want to accomplish everything in the outward direction,’ Maharishi said, ‘but without losing contact with the inner source from where all energy and vitality flow. Education for higher consciousness will be as fulfilling to the subjective level of life as it is to the objective aspect. Both inner and outer values will blossom in their full potential.’

‘Human intelligence is the expression of the fullness of life,’ Maharishi continued. It can express infinity and that value of infinity must blossom through education.

‘Education should not only be concerned with giving efficiency in a profession, but should also make man master of his nature; and man’s nature in its completeness is the nature of the universe.

‘In the unmanifest area of life, Natural Law is in its most fundamental state. From there it expresses itself in divergent values and controls different aspects of creation. We want to take our attention to that unmanifest basis of all the laws of nature and from there consciously create what we wish to create.’

This theme of education can provide every student with ‘the fruit of all knowledge, which is he ability to be familiar with everything in life. In this state one lives wholeness, unity of life, radiating a beautiful influence of harmony and coherence so that all disharmonies and problems in the environment disappear.

‘Necessity is the mother of invention,’ Maharishi said. ‘Whenever there is something necessary in life, Nature provides it. That inward direction of awareness has become necessary because progress became tiring and unfulfilling due to the awareness always remaining in an outward direction. With education for higher consciousness, progress will be faster, and yet life will breathe in fulfilment.’

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