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Vedic Science-Based Education Published in his book that introduces Maharishi Vedic University*, Maharishi explained that Vedic Science is the most natural, most scientific approach to pure knowledge and its infinite organizing power, as available in Rk Veda and the Vedic Literature. Maharishi explains that Vedic Science, by unfolding pure knowledge and its infinite organizing power in the awareness of the student, accomplishes two things simultaneously:
‘This system of education, which enables the student to live enlightenment and fulfilment in daily life, is the most ideal system of education,’ Maharishi said. ‘It delivers mastery over Natural Law and fulfils the supreme goal of education.’ Veda—The Absolute Structure of Education ‘This spontaneous, orderly, sequential transformation of singularity [oneness, or Samhita] into diversity is available in the form of the Veda and Vedic Literature. ‘Absolute education is realized on this fundamental level of intelligence, on this level of consciousness—the transcendental, self-referral state of consciousness. ‘This is the self-sufficient, ideal structure of education, where there are no steps for gaining knowledge, there is no teacher. What is there is the structure of pure intelligence, the structure of pure knowledge, the structure of pure consciousness, which is all-knowingness, fully awake infinite organizing power of pure knowledge. What is there is unity, togetherness, of knower, process of knower, and known—called in Vedic terms, the Samhita of Rishi, Devata, Chhandas—Rk Ved. ‘Rk Veda, the structure of pure knowledge, is the absolute structure of education, where the knower, process of knowing, and known are fully awake in their total potential,’ Maharishi said. ‘Rk Veda is the lively embodiment of Total Knowledge. It is the structure of pure knowledge and its infinite organizing power. Being structured in self-referral consciousness, Rk Veda is itself the student; it is itself the teacher; it is itself the learning and teaching process; it is itself the process of gaining knowledge; it is itself the source, course, and goal of all knowledge—it is pure knowledge, it is the absolute structure of Total Knowledge.’ Maharishi’s Vedic Science-based system of education enables every student to identify with this level of consciousness and allow his awareness to blossom as the structure of pure knowledge and its infinite organizing power. Maharishi said that his Vedic Science ‘offers this absolute level of education, where all knowledge sprouts and grows from within the consciousness of the individual himself and enlivens his total creative potential, which is infinite organizing power. ‘His thoughts spontaneously utilize the creativity of the infinite organizing power of his own pure Nature, which is on a par with the Cosmic Intelligence of the unbounded, ever-expanding universe.’ Maharishi’s Vedic Science is the absolute system of education that guides the supreme destiny of life in the relative world, and bestows on every individual the ability to spontaneously utilize Cosmic Intelligence in all aspects of his daily life. ‘This ability to spontaneously utilize Cosmic Intelligence in all thoughts and actions is the ability to spontaneously engage Cosmic Intelligence, the Cosmic Performer, to perform for oneself. ‘The ‘‘fruit of all knowledge” is the ability to spontaneously live life from this level of intelligence,’ Maharishi said. ‘Rk Veda beautifully expresses this as: “Yatinam Brahma bhavati Sarathih” (Rk Veda, I.158.6)—“those established in self-referral consciousness, Cosmic Intelligence—for them, Cosmic Intelligence, the Creator, is the charioteer, the administrator, of all their actions.” ‘This is the fruit of absolute education, supreme education, [Vedic Education or Consciousness-Based Education], which develops complete self-sufficiency, bestows freedom and invincibility, and places life on a pedestal of enlightenment and fulfilment.’
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