Student practising Transcendental Meditation.

How students can create peace
by Global Good News staff writer
3 July 2009

During Maharishi’s Global Press Conference on 1 December 2004 Dr John Hagelin, Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace and Raja of Invincible America, asked a question from the student press.

Maharishi had said in a previous conference that the best way to create peace is to meditate. By meditating and gaining enlightenment students will create a peaceful world.

Dr Hagelin told Maharishi that students would like to know what makes Maharishi’s approach so effective. In addition to the practice of Maharishi’s form of meditation, are there additional action steps and concrete things a student can do to accelerate the dawning of peace in the world?’ 

Maharishi answered that what everyone can do is deepen their experience of Transcendental Consciousness. Transcendental Consciousness is just what the word ‘transcendental’ means—beyond the boundaries of space and time. It is in the field of the unmanifest, he said.  

He said that to experience that there are the advanced programmes of Transcendental Meditation in which an individual very successfully fathoms the Unified Field, which is known today from scientific research.  

‘The self-referral Unified Field is the Constitution of the Universe,’ Maharishi explained. ‘The Constitution of the Universe is a reality in the unified state. It is Transcendental Consciousness, and the human mind can access that reality by transcending.’ 

During the Transcendental Meditation Technique the mind gets acquainted with the self-referral level of intelligence. Maharishi explained that in the word ‘self-referral’, there are two things: ‘self’ and ‘referral’.  

‘The Self is the constant value,’ Maharishi continued. ‘Referral is the activity value. There is a constant value—that means silent value—and an activity value. In Transcendental Consciousness, there is a silence value and an activity value. Total silence and total activity are both in perfect union.’  

Maharishi said that we understand the Unified Field through mathematical equations and from the age-long awareness of that reality, which is the Self, one’s own intelligence, one’s own Transcendental Consciousness.  

‘It is a field of all possibilities, and therefore is the field of total satisfaction,’ Maharishi said. ‘Total satisfaction is only available when total silence is available at the same time total dynamism is available.  

‘In the unity of the two, silence and dynamism, these two are available completely one with the other, without distinction. This is Transcendental Consciousness, which is easily reached through the Transcendental Meditation Technique. In this, all possibilities are lively.’

Maharishi went on to explain that all possibilities are lively in the scientific word ‘Unified Field’. The Unified Field is a state of unity of absolute silence and absolute dynamism. 

‘”Absolute” means eternal,’ Maharishi continued. ‘Eternal, infinite silence, and infinite dynamism are both together and lively in the self-referral consciousness of everyone. In that, all possibilities are lively.  

‘When all possibilities are lively, then there is no frustration to anyone. When there is no frustration to anyone, then natural action emerges from the state of no disturbance. There is no dissatisfaction, suffering, or anxiety. That means eternal fulfilment is the level where satisfaction prevails. This is peace.  

‘The Unified Field is a field of peace and unity. What kind of unity? It is the unity where extreme opposites are completely one with the other, completely unified. Silence and dynamism are opposite values, but are completely one with the other. This is the Unified Field.’  

Maharishi then said that the experience of this ‘makes a man free from a searching attitude—no more search is there. The search is there as long as the Totality is not reached. But in the union of silence and dynamism, Transcendental Consciousness, there is satisfaction. In the satisfaction, there is no frustration. Frustration causes imbalance, disturbance, suffering, and lack of peace.  

‘When we want to enjoy peace—individually, socially, nationally, internationally, globally, or on any level—if peace is needed, we must achieve satisfaction. Only in the experience of total silence—and within that total silence, total dynamism—is that state of natural peace.’  

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