Vedic Science is a complete and perfect science.

The difference between Vedic knowledge and modern scientific knowledge
by Global Good News staff writer
29 April 2009

During Maharishi’s Global Press Conference on 10 November 2004, Raja John Hagelin told Maharishi that most people agree that knowledge develops over time. He said that our knowledge about the human brain and physiology, about health, technology, agriculture, and so on, is far more effective now than in the past.

The press had therefore asked Maharishi how it is possible that Vedic knowledge, which Maharishi had said is as old as mankind, is more advanced than our most scientific knowledge. What makes Vedic knowledge able to solve the problems of the modern age better than knowledge that has been developed over the centuries?
Maharishi responded that modern knowledge that has developed over centuries is humanly designed knowledge with humanly coined phrases.

‘But life is not humanly designed,’ he said. ‘Life, even if you take it from the Big Bang, has been for how long? Billions of years. Those who are fond of science should know that science is just a few centuries old. . . .

‘Whatever modern science has discovered—let me be frank with you—is only an iota of total science. It is nothing. Human concepts can reach only so far and then nothing. . . . Vedic Science is the basis of life—consciousness. . . . Vedic Science is a total science and technology. It is total because what you think, you can make happen. This is Vedic Science.

Maharishi said that it is be wrong to be ‘over-proud of the scientific achievements. Modern science is in a stage of infancy.’

‘In absolute terms what prevails is “I”. “I am Total Knowledge, I am the Self, I am the universe, I am Totality.” Vedic Science is a complete science; whether one understands it or not is a different thing.

‘If there is a science and a technology that may be called a perfect science and perfect technology, it is the science of the Self, the science of consciousness, the science of the light of God. It is the light of God, total Natural Law, the Constitution of the Universe, the Veda—the Constitution of the Universe in Veda. It is available in one word, two words, three words, four words, and in millions of words.’

Maharishi added that man-made science, or science comprehended by man, is not a very healthy or complete science. ‘There is a science that makes the scientist completely absorbed, as a science, in himself,’ he said. ‘The phrase in Vedic Science is, “When you know it, you become it, you are it.” That is knowing by being. That complete absorption is the reality of unified wholeness.’

He then explained that with mathematically drawn unity, there is a mathematician, a process of drawing it, and a system of expressing it. ‘It is man-made, so it is still the way and not the state. The state of science is where the method is the methodology itself. The scientist himself is the science, and turns into the technology.

‘Vedic Science, when it is understood, is pure Veda, pure knowledge. It is knowingness. Unity is in knowingness, Being, eternity. This is the ultimate, we say the light of God. Nothing is beyond it. . . .

‘This is Vedanta in the Vedic language—Vedanta, Yoga, Karma [different aspects of the Vedic Literature.] They are self-evident, complete, total, unified wholeness. There is command over everything and command over thought.

‘That is our strength,’ Maharishi continued. ‘We are thinking to have a unified world. We know we have to think with many people, and think in the way prescribed by Vedic procedures. . . . .

‘This is a great truth. It depends on who has what knowledge. One can only work on the level of one’s knowledge. Ignorant people can only work according to their level of knowledge; knowledgeable people can only work according to their level; the enlightened can only work according to their level.’

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