Global Good News: Excellence in Action

In his opening remarks to the Global Press Conference on 8 December 2004, Maharishi said that if the world is to have peaceful times, then the possibility of enlightenment for every individual and invincibility for every nation is at hand now.

He said that the world should listen to this message, and for the heads of state, who are always thinking, ‘What more can I do for my people?’ today is the time their parental role could be beautifully achieved for all generations to come.

‘Individual enlightenment and, in the same stroke, invincibility to the nation are the gifts of the Vedic Tradition of Total Knowledge—the Vedic Tradition of the Constitution of the Universe, which manages the infinite order in the ever-expanding galactic universe,’ Maharishi said.

‘That knowledge is there. We finally offer this knowledge to those who would like to have fulfilment in their life of leadership for their countries.’

Maharishi said that the technique is simple because the practice of it is blissful—so blissful on the way—with full enlightenment and invincibility for the nation as the goal.

‘Never, ever, could anyone find a better opportunity to make his personal life fulfilled in every way, and bring invincibility to his nation at large,’ Maharishi continued.

‘Better enjoy personal enlightenment, and in this same stroke, enjoy and give a gift of invincibility to the nation—fulfilment on the individual level, and very grand fulfilment on the national level and on the world level.’

Maharishi said that science has discovered Unity, divinity, within every man, and ‘Man is made in the image of God. . . . Enjoy enlightenment—in one word, enlightenment—personal enlightenment, and national invincibility in the same stroke.

‘In the same stroke, you are most personal and you are most public. You are a very selfish individual when you are sitting for enlightenment for yourself, but in the same stroke, you are bringing the fruit of invincibility for all around you.

‘Go for it individually, whether you are a student or parent, wherever you are, whatever you are. It is your birthright to enjoy bliss. That is there in the quiet recess of your brain or heart or mind.’

Everywhere total Natural Law is functioning for you, Maharishi said; it is a matter of closing the eyes and taking our attention to that, ‘so that our awareness is completely in alliance with that which we call “the light of God within” or “total Natural Law within” or “the Constitution of the Universe within”,’ he concluded.

"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