During the practice of Transcendental Meditation, one unfolds the full cosmic potential of the individual.

The advantages of Consciousness-Based Education
by Global Good News staff writer
3 May 2009

On 17 November 2004 during Maharishi’s Global Press Conference, Raja John Hagelin remarked that there is now a huge, emerging response and an awakening of interest and sense of responsibility among the youth, who feel that if we are ever going to have a better world, they had better take responsibility for it.

Raja Hagelin said that millions of students will graduate from high school at the end of the year [2004], and many of them were deciding what universities or colleges to attend. He asked if Maharishi would explain the advantages of attending one of his institutions of higher learning—such as Maharishi University of Management—over the usual colleges and universities that most students attend?

Maharishi began by saying that the usual colleges and universities that most students attend create slaves, ‘most obedient servants’.

‘Our universities create masters of Natural Law,’ he said. ‘The brilliance that has been shown by the students at the Maharishi University of Management is enough of a proof that the students will rise to Total Knowledge—enlightenment. . . .

‘It is the parents who lead their sons and daughters to our schools. If we do not have a school, they can open one. I am prepared to train the teachers for these youngsters in a very short time. The students should make use of their full brain physiology.

‘The professors should realize they do not know what Dr John Hagelin is telling them about the Unified Field. They may be teaching the algebra, geometry, or arithmetic of the equations of the Unified Field, but it is the application of the Unified Field for the experience of the Unified Field that will train the mind to be always in a progressive direction.’

Maharishi then explained that all the other universities and colleges are teaching old-fashioned science. He said that the use of full brain functioning is different from talking about the theory of the Unified Field.

‘Fortunately for the scientists of America and of the world, there is a scientist who has studied the physiology and located its basis in the self-referral Unified Field, the field of consciousness, which can be experienced through the Transcendental Meditation Programme. Self-referral experiences are the way to develop the full cosmic potential of the individual.’

Professors must realize there is something they have not known, which they should know—‘and that is to know by being,’ Maharishi continued, ‘not through bookish knowledge. Bookish knowledge will not help transform the intelligence into all possibilities, but the experience of Transcendental Consciousness will.

‘Our authority is in experiencing the Unified Field, which will make every individual the embodiment of total Natural Law. Every individual will represent the infinite dimension of creativity, the Constitution of the Universe—that intelligence of the universe is always administering the ever-expanding galactic universe with perfect order.

‘If you want to learn order, learn it from that,’ Maharishi emphasized. ‘Where is that? Within you. Dive within. Transcend within yourself.’

Scientific research on people practising the Transcendental Meditation Technique has proven that the experience of Transcendental Consciousness creates brilliance in their behavioural patterns.

‘Let your sons and daughters practise this, if you are too old to understand it. There is a shop where they can own bliss, affluence, and invincibility. It will give them leadership of Natural Law rather than slavery to some firm here or there. Do not waste time now.

‘Parents are maybe 30, 40, or 50 years of age, but their children are from a different time. This is now the time when total Natural Law can be upheld by every mind, every intellect, every being, and every soul. Self-referral consciousness is knowledge; the other is a lack of knowledge.’

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