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When inaugurating Maharishi Asian Nations University (MANU) on 2 February 1980 in Bangkok, Thailand, Maharishi said that the process of giving and gaining knowledge is a joy, because unbounded awareness is bliss consciousness.

‘Any knowledge is the flow of bliss. It is enriching to both the student and the professor. . . . In the state of unbounded awareness the knower is able to perceive the totality of knowledge in any small expression of knowledge.’

When students and teachers practice Transcendental Meditation, the whole classroom becomes a lively field of pure intelligence and infinite correlation, which radiates an influence of coherence, harmony, liveliness, and perfect health to the whole environment.

‘The universe is so vast and expanded that everyone would like to know all about everything in the universe,’ Maharishi said. ‘When one is living unbounded awareness, any small impulse of knowledge unfolds the totality of the knowledge of the universe.’

Through the systematic study of finer levels of physical creation, modern science has reached a level of achievement in which the observer—consciousness or intelligence—is beginning to be recognized as the ultimate source of creation. This level of pure subjectivity is the unmanifest level of Natural Law, which expresses itself as the process of evolution and creation.

‘This level of Natural Law is the level of pure knowledge and its organizing power,’ Maharishi explained. ‘The whole creation is the expression of organizing power, and this is why we say that pure knowledge is the self-sufficient source of all creation.’

Maharishi explained that the Vedic Seer Manu was the embodiment of Natural Law, the embodiment of pure knowledge. In his eternal calmness and fullness, Manu expressed complete knowledge about law: where law is seated, how it functions, and where it leads the whole creation. This complete knowledge about law is the structure of pure knowledge.

Maharishi said that the primary purpose of study at Maharishi Asian Nations University (MANU) was the full awakening of the knower in his own reality. In this state of awakening the knower finds both the knower and the object of knowledge unified at their unmanifest source, the state of pure knowledge. In this state of complete knowledge of the object and the subject, the process of knowing finds fulfillment.

‘The totality of pure knowledge is the seat of Natural Law and the infinite organizing power of Nature,’ Maharishi continued. ‘Because the organizing power of Nature will be established in his awareness, every graduate of MANU will be a master of Natural Law, living the totality of Natural Law in daily life in the most spontaneous manner.’

Maharishi went on to say that the Laws of Nature are never new; they are the eternal custodians of all the processes of creation. Authentic knowledge about the Laws of Nature comes to us from modern science, but the knowledge of Natural Law has always been available in the unbounded awareness of man.

‘There is a perfect, detailed, and complete record of the Totality of Natural Law seated in unbounded awareness and that is the package of pure knowledge, the Veda,’ Maharishi said.

‘Creation is the expression of the organizing power of Natural Law, and the structure of Natural Law is the structure of pure knowledge, the Veda. Creation is therefore the expression of the Veda.’

Maharishi explained that knowledge is structured in consciousness. Natural Law, organizing power, pure knowledge, and the Veda are all the expression of consciousness. Consciousness is the Self, and therefore all these values are the expressions of the Self: ‘I am everything,’ [an expression from the Veda].

‘In the hymns of the Veda the Self speaks its own story,’ Maharishi explained. ‘The impulses of the Veda are the impulses of consciousness, the impulses of the Self.
‘The Veda is the reverberation of consciousness in its own unmanifest nature. It is the expression of pure knowledge where the Self murmurs its nature to itself—consciousness sings its own eternal glory.

‘Pure consciousness, the unmanifest Self, is the totality of Natural Law. When the Self moves in a particular channel of Natural Law through the process of desiring, it creates the specific expression of that Natural Law on the manifest level.’

Maharishi explained that in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme, a specific impulse is introduced in the pure state of the Self, the self-sufficient field of possibilities, and immediately the impulse produces the desired result.

Transcendental Meditation takes the mind to the quiet, settled state of unbounded awareness. As this state of perfect silence begins to know itself more and more thoroughly, it begins to appreciate its own structure as the dynamism of Natural Law, the Veda. When the Self knows these two opposite values—dynamism and silence—as the two aspects of its own nature, then the full awakening of enlightenment dawns.

‘The Veda, the structure of pure knowledge—the Self—is present in every point of creation,’ Maharishi continued. ‘This reality is embodied in one beautiful expression of Vedic Science: “Having created creation, the Creator entered into it” (Taittiriya Upanishad 2.6.2). The process of creation and the process of entering are not two processes—they are simultaneous.

‘The supreme achievement of science—the reliable, repeatable, verifiable path of investigation—is the supreme realization of science, where the Self declares itself to be everything. All the Laws of Nature emerge from the murmur of consciousness, from the murmur of the Self, which is the Veda.

‘The text of the Veda is the murmur of consciousness to itself and is open to experience by anyone in any generation, because that is the reality; it is in the simplicity of the nature of the mind. We know how simple Transcendental Meditation is; we know how simple the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme is; we know how simply the Self is revealed to itself.

‘We know the absolute authenticity for developing the full potential of the knower, the process of knowledge and the known (the content of knowledge) from the voice of the Self itself, the Veda.’

"The potential of every student is infinite. The time of student life should serve to unfold that infinite potential so that every individual becomes a vibrant centre of Total Knowledge."—Maharishi