Life is a joy in Unity Consciousness—the awareness has the support of total Natural Law.  

The experience of Unity Consciousness
by Global Good News staff writer
9 July 2009

In one of his Global Press Conferences in 2004, Maharishi described life in Unity Consciousness as behaving in diversity, but with the experience of unity predominating. He said that life without Unity Consciousness is a desert and that the experience of Unity Consciousness is like coming upon an oasis in the desert. 

In the Global Press Conference on 8 December 2004, Raja John Hagelin asked Maharishi a question about Unity Consciousness: 'What will truly distinguish that experience from all other experiences along the path to enlightenment?' 

Maharishi began his answer by saying that the difference will be that the hardships and struggle for success will be nonexistent. ‘Whatever one would think, Natural Law will achieve it for one. Thoughts will be fulfilled without stress and without strain.’  

Maharishi said that this experience is a very positive thing. One does not have to be told by anyone else; one knows more and more in this state of possessing the support of Natural Law. Life is easier. One does not have to know it from anyone else. 

‘Every man thinks before he acts,’ Maharishi continued. ‘There is a source of thought within the consciousness of everyone. We say the source of thought is in the transcendental field. The transcendental field is a Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature. There is no difference. It becomes lively in one’s own awareness. When it becomes lively in one’s awareness, then every thought has the support of total Natural Law.’  

Maharishi then explained that Total Natural Law is that which supports the evolution of everything. Every grain of creation, every point of creation, is upheld by Natural Law for its evolutionary reality.  

‘Everything evolves all the time—trees, birds, animals, man,’ Maharishi said. ‘Every point evolves in the direction of unboundedness; the point evolves into infinity. There is a constant reinforcement of the evolutionary process, and this is Unity Consciousness. No matter what one thinks, that support of Natural Law is constantly available.  

‘This is just the technique that Guru Dev*, the custodian of the Vedic Tradition, gave us, whereby we could easily explore the point of intelligence which is all over—omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. That is why life becomes a joy. It ceases to be a struggle. It ceases to be a suffering. Life becomes bliss—and for that, just a few dives into the transcendental reality.  

‘The whole thing is so simple,’ Maharishi emphasized. ‘Perfection can belong to everyone—absolutely everyone. The human brain physiology is competent to experience that value which is holistically vacuum fluctuations. It is nothingness.’ 

Maharishi explained this by using the example of the hollowness of a banyan seed. There is nothing, but the total tree is contained within it—that hollowness has the memory of all the branches and leaves and fruits and flowers within the tree.  

‘The field of the unmanifest is Yoga,’ Maharishi explained, ‘the transcendental field, the Unified Field. Experience of that field enlivens it. The theory of measurement says [that] measuring it enlivens it in our awareness. Then the awareness has the support of total Natural Law.  

‘It is just a technique of engaging total Natural Law to work for us, simply, naturally. Bliss is the experience. When it becomes more lively in our awareness, life is more blissful, more blissful. More total life is lived.  

‘It is a great thing. We wish our children could soon have all this experience everywhere. . . .’

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