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Gaining perfect health and long life through the experience of bliss The education of Maharishi University of Enlightenment (MUE) in Iowa, USA, is not the typical university education, 'job-oriented' education. MUE provides 'life-oriented' education, giving the essentials for not only any job, but for all aspects of life. In the 11 January celebration of the eleventh anniversary of Maharishi University of Enlightenment, broadcast over the internet on Maharishi Channel 3, a graduate of the masters degree programme shared a glimpse of her thesis, 'Bliss—The basis of long life in perfect health: The path of gaining enlightenment is the path of gaining perfect health'. In doing this, she demonstrated the very profound significance of her MUE education. The knowledge she received there was knowledge for gaining bliss, long life, and perfect health. This knowledge was not just given to her in books and lectures, but she utilized technologies for gaining bliss consciousness to directly culture these values in her own physiology. Below is her presentation, which illuminates the ultimate in health education and the ultimate in education for life as a whole as offered by Maharishi University of Enlightenment. 'In studying Maharishi Vedic Science, I grew to understand intellectually what my inner experience has been telling me—that the flow of bliss is intimately related to total brain functioning, perfect health, and long life. And because I always have had a great interest in health, it was a great fulfilment for me to explore and express this beautiful wholeness of knowledge and experience in my masters thesis and now to be sharing it with you. 'It is my honour to present to you in these few minutes a taste of the three main points of my thesis: 'When Maharishi says 'life is bliss', he really means just that: life, in its essence, is bliss. Maharishi taught us that the transcendental basis of life is an ocean of eternal bliss consciousness. And he showed us that this ocean of bliss consciousness, just by being conscious of itself, rises up in waves of bliss, creating the universe and entering into every aspect of its creation—every thought, everything, everyone. 'Maharishi also taught us that, as a verse of the Vedic Literature declares, 'Bliss becomes blissful through practice'. And he gave us the techniques to practise to make bliss our own living reality. He gave us the Transcendental Meditation Technique to dive into the ocean of bliss consciousness. And he gave us the TM-Sidhi Programme, including Yogic Flying, to stir the ocean of bliss and make it bubble up in our mind and body. 'To further help us awaken the full glory of bliss in supreme enlightenment, Maharishi gave us all the guidance and procedures that we would ever need from every angle of Vedic Knowledge. He always encouraged us to use the knowledge, to be regular with our practice, that practise makes perfect. 'By using all the knowledge and advanced techniques to the best of my ability, spending long hours each day in research in consciousness, while participating in the Mother Divine programme and as a student of MUE, the ocean of divine bliss has truly, steadily, been awakening, not only in my mind and heart, but in my brain and all parts of my body as well. 'My experience that bliss is as much physiological as it is spiritual, mental, and emotional has helped me to understand why Maharishi says in his book, Celebrating Perfection in Education, 'the path of gaining enlightenment is the path of gaining perfect health . . . .' 'My experience has also helped me to understand why Maharishi links bliss with longevity. In 1980, at the 'International Conference on Science, Consciousness and Aging' at Maharishi European University, Maharishi explained that when bliss consciousness becomes a continuum, 'this becomes the formula for disallowing aging, a formula for maintaining the youthfulness of the nervous system on the physiological level'. 'This is just what I experience. I find that as the ocean of bliss consciousness bubbles up and flows in waves throughout my brain and whole body, saturating it with a most exquisitely enjoyable, sweet-tasting and divine nectar, the body is being deeply nourished, purified, balanced and rejuvenated. 'And so, it is very clear to me, as Maharishi indicates, that of all the many things anyone can do to promote health and long life, the most truly holistic, fundamental, and powerful thing is to enjoy this simple, innocent experience of bliss. In his book, Maharishi Forum of Natural Law and National Law for Doctors, Maharishi explains that pure consciousness—bliss consciousness—is Transcendental Consciousness and that 'it is only from this level that prevention can be really fully effective; it is only from this level that cure can be thoroughly achieved'. 'In his book, Human Physiology, Expression of Veda and Vedic Literature, Professor Tony Nader, MD, PhD, illuminates this consciousness-based approach—the Vedic approach—to attaining health. He explains that in the state of pure consciousness, '. . . the physiology spontaneously aligns itself with its own essential nature, its pure state of perfect structure and function—Veda'. 'The knowledge and experiences, which I have gained through my long-term practice of Maharishi's Technologies of Consciousness and as student of Maharishi University of Enlightenment, and which I have discussed in my thesis, have a profoundly practical significance for the well-being of the whole human race. This is very exciting to me. 'The happiness, the health, the longevity that we all seek is not outside of ourselves. It is our very own Nature. We just have to be who and what we are, established in our own selves, in bliss. By diving within through the Transcendental Meditation Technique, all the people in the world can enjoy the bliss of their deepest nature. The very real possibility exists for the big problem of ill health to be a thing of the past. Together we can easily create a healthy, blissful world family.' © Copyright 2009 Global Good News®
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