24 January 2007 Press Conference Highlights

Maharishi: ‘Jai Guru Dev. The reality of life is in its Totality. And "Totality" means completely abstract values—omnipresent, on the level of transcendental reality, unmanifest reality, total. And that "total" should become a living reality of the daily life of the people. This should be the ideal structure of life and should be lived by everyone.

‘This is our effort—to create that knowledge and that programme. We have the techniques for everyone to have a daily routine devoted one, two hours a day, morning and evening, to make that omnipresent level of reality a conscious experience. So, on the conscious level of thinking and action, that omnipresent bliss permeates. That is our theme.

‘We should give this education to all our children in the world, in every country. That is our programme for invincibility to every nation. It is a very beautiful thing. Dr Hagelin and all those great teachers have all realized what a wonderful store of knowledge is there as the Veda, the Constitution of the Universe. We want that Constitution of the Universe to remain in practice for everyone, not to remain in books. The Constitution of the Universe, the whole of the Veda, is for everyone.

‘This is going to be our educational system in the world: Total Knowledge in every university. That we have been doing—establishing universities, schools, colleges—the purpose is to give Total Knowledge, so that, in every fragmentation of relative life, the Absolute prevails. Everyone lives life like the life of the ocean. The waves go from this end to that end, and silence is maintained at the base of each wave. Silence is maintained at the base of each action of everyone. And that is real human action; that is human thought; that is human understanding. For this effect, we are teaching the science and technology of living, the science and technology of thought, ultimately, the science and technology of Being.

‘This great light of life is from the grace of Guru Dev, His Divinity Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. And the world is going to be a beautiful mosaic of differences. Differences will not be eliminated, but unity will breathe life through all the differences.

‘This is going to be our effort. All fields of administration, all fields of living and life, will be lived by everyone. The relative will not be lost. The relative life will be lived, but it will be lived in the lively Absolute reality of self-referral Being.

‘All glory to Guru Dev. And we feel we have done a good job by the knowledge that we have received from the tradition of Vedic Masters, from the eternal tradition of Vedic Masters. The tradition of eternal life is eternal. It is the Vedic Tradition. And, fortunately, we got into that tradition by some good luck for the whole mankind.

‘Suffering is going to be a thing of the past. Difficulties, suffering, sicknesses, sorrows, failures—all are going to be the past history of mankind. Life is going to be bliss, bliss, bliss. Individual life is cosmic life. Cosmic life is bliss, permeating in all those ups and downs of daily living. So it is beautiful. It is a beautiful opportunity for the destiny of mankind.

‘I am very proud of the leading scientist, Dr Hagelin, and leading educator, our Dr Morris, the president of the University of Management in USA, and our finance minister, who has an untold treasury. Anything we want to do, he says, "Yes, yes, yes, we can have this money here, this money here, this money here." All these great geniuses of the world are together working and reshaping the misshaped life that human beings had to live in the past centuries. Now is the time for bliss to prevail.

‘It is a beautiful time for the world. Knowledge, as it is in its own transcendental field, has to become the living reality of the daily life of everyone. All glory to Guru Dev. Jai Guru Dev. Guru Dev, Brahmananda Saraswati, Vijayante Taram.’