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What students should know about their lives
by Global Good News staff writer
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During Maharishi's Global Press Conference on 16 November 2005, Raja John Hagelin, Raja of Invincible America, Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace, and co-host of Maharishi's weekly Press Conference, told Maharishi that over the past couple of weeks there had been 1,500 very positive stories on Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and its impact on education.  

This was precipitated by the national tour of filmmaker Dr David Lynch and accompanying scientists, who have talked to thousands and thousands of students at universities on the powerful impact of Transcendental Meditation to transform education and to develop the brain. 

Dr Lynch established the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace in order to fund students who wished to learn Transcendental Meditation and schools that wished to introduce this programme into their curriculum.  

Raja Hagelin presented to Maharishi a question that came from many student writers and student newspapers across the country: 'Maharishi, as many people were able to see from the recent university tour on "Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain," more and more young people seem to be deeply interested in meditation and enlightenment. Maharishi, what should students know about their life that they do not already know?' 

Maharishi gave the following response to these students: 'One word: Total Knowledge. And the students should tell their parents what the orientation of their house is and whether the house has a proper east entrance*.  

'The students should tell their parents what the orientation is of the school building, college building, where they go. Does the college building or school building have a North entrance? They should never go to a school that has a South entrance or West entrance. They should refuse their parents and should refuse their teachers saying that a South entrance is very unfortunate; a West entrance is very unfortunate. At least that one feature of the Sthapatya Veda construction of homes should be followed. 

'They should tell the mayors of the city where they are living that the roads are topsy-turvy and the housing is not properly oriented. This is one thing that everyone should know, and they should allow themselves to actualize this knowledge. 

'This is not knowledge to know and set aside—no. The students should tell their parents this in favour of Total Knowledge, in favour of their health, in favour of their relationship with their parents and teachers, in favour of everything of which their life is composed. They should know Total Knowledge, and they should know how to be properly oriented in the home and where to be in the classroom. This will be a student of this year. Otherwise, he will be a student of the past century.' 

* This refers to the fortune-creating houses of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda, which follows the principles of 'right direction' contained in this Vedic system of architecture.

For maximum benefit to the health, wealth, and well-being of the occupants of the house, the orientation of the front door is to the East, to gain maximum value of the rising sun—said to be highly auspicious according to Vedic Architecture.

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