By enlivening the very basis of all avenues of life, one enjoys perfect health on every level, just as watering the root provides nourishment to all aspects of the plant. 

Medical science and Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence
by Global Good News staff writer
9 May 2009

On 30th September 1975, in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, Maharishi spoke about the growing interest in the field of medicine in the relationship between stress and disease, and between mind and body. 

This talk is published in one of Maharishi’s special pocket-sized books for educators, Maharishi speaks to Educators: Mastery over Natural Law. 

Maharishi said that the awareness is growing that the functioning of the mind and body are closely integrated with one another. ‘From its earliest history, medicine has proclaimed that health is wholeness and to heal is to make whole,’ he said. 

Medical science is beginning to understand that the human body represents a wholeness than is greater than the sum of its parts. ‘The tendency of individual life is to move in the direction of realizing its full potential,’ Maharishi said. ‘This ability to grow and evolve is based on the integrated functioning of the nervous system. 

‘Consciousness is the ultimate unifying principle of the physiology, and the integrated functioning of the body in turn acts as a basis for the further expression and unfoldment of consciousness.  

‘That which unifies the diverse parts is consciousness, and the level of consciousness is directly reflected in the coherence with which the parts are integrated,’ he said. 

The health of the individual and the health of society are mutually interdependent. The evolution of individual consciousness and physiology is influenced by the quality of the surrounding society, and as individual consciousness becomes more coherent, it has a positive influence on the health of the whole society. 

When the mind is established in the state of perfect order, the state of least excitation, through Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation, one lives more in harmony with the environment. ‘Then the entire environment supports the activity of each individual, and progress of society results in progress of the individual,’ Maharishi continued. ‘A healthy person is a happy person, living wholeness of life—living the harmonious integration of the expressions of Creative Intelligence in all aspects of life.’ 

The science of medicine was initially concerned only with the body, but gradually the value of the mind was recognized by the field of medicine. ‘Now medicine has come to realize that there is something more basic than the mind, and this is the field of pure consciousness, the non-excited state of the mind. 

‘As consciousness, or intelligence, is increasingly recognized as the basis of all activity of the mind, and the mind as the basis of the functioning of the body, the pure field of intelligence is being recognized as the basis of all health.’ 

Psychosomatic diseases, which originate in the disturbance of the mind, are eliminated when the state of pure consciousness is enlivened in the mind. 

Maharishi pointed out that ‘a healthy person is one who is able to achieve what he wants, because the reality of the mind in that non-excited state of awareness is a field of all possibilities. 

‘The concern of medicine is the perfect integration of all levels of life: body, mind, and the most quiet state of the mind—pure consciousness.’ 

Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence unfolds the full potential of consciousness, the most basic level of life, which integrates all the diverse aspects of life. By enlivening the very basis of all avenues of life, one enjoys perfect health on every level, just as watering the root provides nourishment to all aspects of the plant. 

‘The fulfilment of medicine lies in the spontaneous maintenance of health in all fields of life. The first concern of medicine should be prevention, not cure,’ Maharishi said.  

‘All suffering and disease in life result from violation of the Laws of Nature. The Science of Creative Intelligence stabilizes the home of all the Laws of Nature [pure consciousness] in the individual’s awareness, so that his thought and action are in accordance with Natural Law. In this way, the individual does not create the ground for suffering. 

‘Perfect health means the ability to not make mistakes or violate the Laws of Nature. A healthy man is one whose thought and activity are always evolutionary. 

‘In the Age of Enlightenment, doctors will be the torch-bearers of the knowledge that will bring enlightenment—wholeness of life, the state of perfect health—to everyone.’ 

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