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Exploring the language of Nature On 30 September 1980 in Seelisberg, Switzerland. Maharishi spoke* about appreciating the flow of the Self within itself, the source of all expressed values of creation. Maharishi began by saying that the Laws of Nature at the basis of creation, which give rise to the different structures of the different layers of creation, are structured in the ‘Language of Nature’. He then explained that language has a range within which it expresses reality. ‘Beyond that range of the manifest value of speech, language begins to merge into the unmanifest value,’ Maharishi said. Through Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme, we experience the entire range of speech from gross to subtle to unmanifest in the state of Transcendental Consciousness. ‘The different levels of the Language of Nature emerge from the unmanifest level of Nature, which is the total potential of speech,’ Maharishi continued. ‘This unmanifest level is the absolute value of speech. ‘Written language is a very limited expression of speech; it has put a boundary on the unbounded capacity of Nature to express itself. This limited form of expression does not convey the full value of feeling. ‘When Nature speaks, it speaks in the form of creation—from finer expressions of creation to the grossest expression of creation,’ Maharishi said. ‘This is the Language of Nature, which is called Shruti, “that which is heard.” ’ In the Vedic Tradition the Language of Nature, the Shruti, is preserved through speech alone. Vedic Pandits, the custodians of Natural Law, maintain the structure of pure knowledge on the level of memory, and pure knowledge flows out as speech from the unmanifest level of their consciousness. Maharishi explained that by virtue of the infinite dynamism contained within the structure of the unmanifest, speech comes out as resonance, and the expressions of resonance on different levels are the expressions of creation. ‘The resonance, or hum, of all the fibres of creation together constitutes the whole universe,’ Maharishi said. ‘The total value of Natural Law is present in every grain of creation,’ he continued. ‘Deep within itself every specific value of creation is in tune with the omnipresent, almighty power of Natural Law. The same structure is found in language; every specific expression in creation rises from the underlying level of pure intelligence or existence—the silent level of Nature’s language. ‘The structure of knowledge in its complete value is the infinitely dynamic field of the Self: being consciousness, it is the knower, the known, and the knowledge,’ Maharishi said. He then explained that the inner dynamism of the Self projects itself eternally as the process of creation. This eternal, infinite dynamism of the Self murmuring to itself is expressed in a verse of the Bhagavad-Gita (9.8): Prakritim swam avashtabhya visrijami punah punah—‘Curving back upon My own Nature, I create again and again.’ ‘The self-sufficient, infinitely dynamical structure of pure knowledge creates from within its own nature,’ Maharishi continued. ‘This activity in its first absolutely unmanifest value expresses the specific structures of pure knowledge, the Veda. ‘The “hum” of creation, the impulse of Nature that is the structure of pure knowledge, is nothing other than one’s own nature. In the process of transcending through Transcendental Meditation, awareness opens to the progressively finer impulses of one’s nature until the eternally silent level of consciousness knows itself as a field of infinite dynamism. In this state supreme intelligence is wide awake within itself.’ This unmanifest level of Natural Law, the level of absolute orderliness, is the fountainhead of all the different expressions of creation. All levels of creation are the expression of orderliness—‘everything in creation speaks the Language of Nature,’ Maharishi said. ‘The Veda, the structure of pure knowledge, is known only to itself; it is its own knower, its own known, and its own knowledge. In the state of pure knowledge, the three values of knower, known, and knowledge are one unified structure that contains the potentiality for the infinite diversity of the universe,’ Maharishi explained. ‘The Veda is transcendental to all the relative senses of perception; it exists on a level where the transcendental value of all five senses is available. On this level consciousness itself perceives the structure and the flow of the Veda, the Language of Nature.’ Maharishi said that the whole manifest creation is an expression of orderly relationships among different values. ‘These specific relationships are maintained on the basis of the relationships between the different Laws of Nature on the unmanifest, absolute level of Nature, the field of infinite correlation. In the Veda, the variation in flow, or Chhandas, expresses the specific relationship of the Laws of Nature in the unmanifest.’ When individual intelligence is perfectly in tune with that perfect, absolute Cosmic Intelligence, it is able to comprehend the mechanics of the structuring of pure knowledge and to calculate all the specific relationships that structure the flow of Vedas. ‘This intelligence is called Jyotish-mati pragya—the intelligence that is completely awake within itself and aware of all the infinite possible structures contained within its own value,’ Maharishi continued. ‘When this level of awareness is completely open to itself, it knows all about everything that is contained within its own structure. It is from here that all knowledge about everything in creation is available. ‘The different values of the structure of pure knowledge expressed in the different categories of the Vedic Literature arise from this holistic value of knowledge, which is the knower himself.’ The Vedic Literature is a very profound, systematic knowledge, which presents the mechanics of the total organizing power of Nature. The Vedic Literature gives us confidence that this knowledge of the totality of life is available. ‘However, totality of life cannot be known by reading Vedic Literature, but only by being the Veda, one’s own Self, ’ Maharishi said. The simplest form of human awareness contains within its nature the totality of the universe, the full potential of Natural Law. ‘In order to enliven the full potential of Natural Law in awareness, there is a tradition of refining one’s consciousness in order that it reflect the totality of creation,’ Maharishi continued. ‘Before beginning Vedic Studies one must understand the whole mechanics of Natural Law on the basis of one’s own experience of transcending during Transcendental Meditation and enlivening the Transcendent in Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme. This is the approach to unfolding the complete structure of knowledge, the Veda,’ Maharishi concluded. * This talk is also published in Maharishi series of books for students: Maharishi Speaks to Students—Mastery over Natural Law. © Copyright 2009 Global Good News®
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