The unbounded nature of Creative Intelligence opens to our awareness when we practise Transcendental Meditation.

Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence and the objective and subjective approaches to gaining knowledge
by Global Good News staff writer
19 July 2008

In Italy in June 1972, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gave this talk as part of Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence course. It is also presented in the special pocket-sized publication for students entitled Maharishi Speaks to Students: Mastery over Natural Law. Maharishi explains the two approaches to gaining knowledge, objective and subjective.

Maharishi explains that the nature of Creative Intelligence incorporates within its fold the whole range of creation. We can open our awareness to the pure nature of Creative Intelligence through the Science of Creative Intelligence and the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

'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,' Maharishi said.

There are two approaches to gaining knowledge: objective and subjective. The objective means of gaining 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 fulfillment, because this approach can only reveal specific, limited values of the object.

'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.'

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

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.

'Knowledge is structured in consciousness: only when consciousness is comprehensive can knowledge be comprehensive,' Maharishi said.

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