Speech should enliven bliss in the listener.

The Vedic ideal of communication
by Global Good News staff writer
3 June 2009

On 20 February 1974 while in Interlaken, Switzerland, Maharishi spoke to the students in the Master’s Degree Programme at Maharishi University of Management (then known as Maharishi International University), Fairfield, Iowa, USA. 

He said that Manu Smrit, one aspect of the Vedic Literature, gives the instruction to ‘Speak the truth that is pleasing’—that speech which is evolutionary and supportive to life. ‘Only when speech comes from the full value of awareness, the home of all knowledge, will it enliven the evolutionary impulse of life in the listener,’ Maharishi said. 

Speech is just the projection of one’s awareness. When one is established in unbounded awareness, the home of all knowledge, then the impulse of speech traveling out represents the whole range of knowledge. The purpose of speech from this level is to inspire in the listener the unbounded range of knowledge. 

‘Speech sprouts from the Transcendent,’ Maharishi continued, ‘and manifests into tender impulses of feeling, which grow into tender impulses of thinking. Thinking then emerges as speech to produce the desired effect, which is to enliven bliss in the mind of the listener. 

‘The target of speech is the creation of Brahman Consciousness—the enlivenment of the holistic nature of bliss dormant in man. Whatever the state of enlightenment of the speaker, he can learn to project his speech in such a way as to enliven the element of bliss in the listener.’ 

Maharishi said that a tender value of bliss coming from the speaker will stir great waves of bliss in the listener. If the total value of enlightenment is not lively in the listener, then whatever level of bliss is lively, it will become enlivened further. 

‘The progress towards the holistic value of bliss is the purpose of the code of conduct given by the Smriti, [another aspect of the Vedic Literature]. Every activity should inspire higher levels of awakening, until consciousness is awakened in its full value of infinite bliss,’ Maharishi concluded. 

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