Global Good News: Excellence in Action

Raja John Hagelin pointed out to Maharishi during the Global Press Conference on 17 November 2004, that many students in colleges and universities today are without much optimism or hope. He said that they live in a world dominated by materialism, commercialism, and war, when they desire to live in a world of harmony and peace.

Raja Hagelin then asked Maharishi how can Transcendental Meditation be used by young people to create a better world for themselves? And what will that world look like?

Maharishi gave a very beautiful answer saying that Transcendental Meditation creates Transcendental Consciousness, which is bliss consciousness.

‘All the students have to do is rise to bliss consciousness, then the whole atmosphere will be very likeable and will not be thorny.

‘Parents should send their children to those schools, or open the schools. We want to open all the schools and colleges, but building them will take much time. The existing schools should take guidance and orders now from the greatest educators of this enlightened age.’

Maharishi said that Dr Hagelin is the mastermind in the field of education and that we should take his advice. ‘All schools and colleges should begin to give a period a day for Transcendental Meditation. Call it “experience of bliss”,’ Maharishi said, ‘”a period for bliss,” “a period for the experience of pure intelligence”, “a period for invincibility”, or “a period for maximum creativity.” A period should be given to develop that.’

Maharishi then pointed out that it has been seen that bookish knowledge has great limitations. It is fragmented and does not do justice to human intelligence, ‘because human intelligence is all divine in its essential nature. That divinity is on its own level.

‘The mind has to dive into it by using Transcendental Meditation, the technique of diving and being one with that divinity,’ he said. ‘That is all that one has to do, and the rest will be taken care of by Natural Law.

Total Natural Law is everywhere—omnipresent. ‘The Unified Field is all that there is, and everything is its own expression,’ Maharishi continued. ‘Therefore, be at the basis of all the expressed world, all the physical world, and you will be brightening life from within.

‘Life is all bliss; it is a flow of bliss. A Vedic expression says, Purnat purnam udachyate, “From fullness emerges fullness.” The whole flow of life is the flow of fullness. That is the essential nature of the divine. Only on that level, only on its own level is it available to the mind, the intellect, and the self. It is so easy to have it.’

Maharishi then commented that it is a very incomplete system of education that does not lead everyone’s mind to that field of affluence within their own Self. Education has been very incompetent.

‘With one period a day, as advised by our Peace Government and the greatest scientists of our time, it is completely possible for all the schools, colleges, and universities to give the benefit of the latest discovery in the field of physical sciences—the discovery of the Unified Field—and practically arrive at that field through the Vedic system of daily living.’

Maharishi emphasized that it is very necessary not to suffer when you can enjoy. There was a time when this knowledge of Transcendental Meditation was not known. But now it is very well known, widely practised, very established, well researched, and completely proven. It is authentic.

‘Now there is no reason why all the incompetent approaches to the development of education should not be forgotten or abandoned,’ he said. ‘Every university, college, and school will do the greatest favour to their students if they introduce one period a day for invincibility of the individual consciousness, which is the unit of national consciousness.

‘Then every nation will enjoy invincibility. This is the only way that the black spot in the developing world can be eliminated. Take care of your children; take care of yourself.

‘This is the message that the world press could bring to give life to its readers. Then the world will be a better world. We have the knowledge.’

Finally, Maharishi advised that we make an appeal to all the professors. ‘Every professor knows that whatever he knows, there is still something which he does not know. What does he not know? He does not know that his inner divine nature can be approached easily. Tell them this knowledge is available. Everyone’s Self is this. Parents and professors, help the youngsters to rise to divine monarchy, rather than slavery.’

"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