About Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

On this website, TranscendentalConsciousness.com, it is only appropriate to write something about the person who has brought the knowledge and experience of Transcendental Consciousness to millions of people in the world during the last 50 years.

Transcendental Consciousness has been quite a metaphysical and philosophical subject in the past ages. Transcendental Consciousness was generally understood to be almost unattainable. It was understood to be something that was only known and experienced through severe practice, through years of concentration, or contemplation.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi came as a new light in a dark world in which suffering was prevailing. Maharishi received the natural and simple technique of Transcendental Meditation from his master Guru Dev, His Divinity Brahmananda Saraswati, who at that time held the position of Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math in Northern-India. He then decided to travel to the West and make this simple and natural technique available to everyone in the world.

Maharishi's main message is that "life is bliss". This is directly opposite to the prevailing thinking that "life is suffering", or "life is a struggle".

Transcendental Consciousness, the ultimate reality of life

Maharishi based his message on the knowledge and experience which he received from Guru Dev.

He knew that the source of all creativity and energy can be experienced by anyone in an effortless way, regardless of their intelligence, age, educational, or religious background.

Maharishi knew that the effortless technique of transcending, which he gave the name Transcendental Meditation, or TM technique, would be able to lift the suffering from mankind, individually and collectively.

The TM technique came as a new light into a world which struggled in its darkest time. People from all fields of life came to learn this technique and found an incredible source of bliss in themselves, which they experienced during their practise of TM.

More creativity and energy through TM

They noticed that they became more creative and energetic. Their lives started to unfold on all levels. Their enthusiasm and the many benefits that they experienced, inspired others to also learn the Transcendental Meditation technique.

After seeing and hearing all this news, Maharishi decided to train teachers who became qualified to pass on the ancient knowledge.

The TM technique, which originates from an ancient Vedic tradition, is taught in a systematic and universal way to maintain the purity and effectiveness of the teaching. In this way it is guaranteed that the Transcendental Meditation technique will continue to be effective generation after generation.

Heaven on Earth can be achieved

Maharishi said in 1960: "I will fill the world with love and create Heaven on Earth". As the world is a collection of individuals, world peace and Heaven on Earth can be achieved through enlivening the field of peace and bliss, Transcendental Consciousness, in the individual.

Awakening this unbounded source of peace into the awareness of the individual, makes them a shining light for the world. Such an individual is like a lamp in the dark, a unit of world peace.

Even one tiny lamp will light up the whole room. Maharishi predicted in the early 60's, that if a small number of people in a town, city or country practise the Transcendental Meditation technique, then negative tendencies will disappear, like the darkness disappears with the onset of light.

Maharishi Effect

In 1974 it was found that in cities in which the number of TM meditators had reached about one percent of the population, negative tendencies, like crime rate and accident rate, had dropped significantly.

This effect was called the "Maharishi Effect" and it was this, which inspired Maharishi to inaugurate the "Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment" on January 12, 1975.

TM Sidhi programme

In 1976 Maharishi introduced the TM Sidhi programme, which is an advanced programme to develop consciousness and help us to use our full mental potential.

The speciality of the TM Sidhi programme is, that it teaches one to function from the level of Transcendental Consciousness, which is the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature, the field of all possibilities.

This unmanifest field of all possibilities has in it the ability to transform anything in the field of manifestations. Therefore it is also possible to transform a world of suffering and negativity into a peaceful, happy world, into Heaven on Earth.

Maximum coherence during Yogic Flying

Scientists have found that during the practise of the TM Sidhi programme, brain-coherence can become maximum. Coherence means, the brain waves are in phase, they function in an orderly manner. This is particularly the case during Yogic Flying.

If many people practise the TM Sidhi programme together in a group, the Maharishi Effect has shown to be become even more noticeable in society.

It is Maharishi's wish that permanent groups be formed in 192 countries, to create enough coherence in each country to create invincibility.

Maharishi's Global Country of World Peace

Maharishi's world plan to create Heaven on Earth through the Global Country of World Peace, is being thoroughly prepared and is at present becoming a reality.

Now Heaven on Earth, World Peace and Invincibility have a solid foundation, based on the direct experience and enlivenment of the field of Transcendental Consciousness, which is the fountainhead of Natural Law.

Natural Law is already governing and managing everything in the universe, from the smallest particles to the vast galaxies, with utmost precision and perfection.

Maharishi says that his Global Country of World Peace has its basis in the Constitution of the Universe, the structure of the field of Transcendental Consciousness, the Rk Ved, total Natural Law.

It is through the individual and collective practise of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation technique, the TM Sidhi programme, including Yogic Flying and through the daily recitation of the Vedic texts by thousands of Vedic Pandits, that Heaven on Earth will soon become a reality.

The lamp lights up as soon as we turn on the switch

The sooner the required numbers have been reached in the 192 countries, the sooner the effect will be there. The lamp lights up as soon as we turn on the switch. The powerhouse is there, we just have to connect to it. Transcendental Consciousness is there, we just have to enliven it.

Maharishi says, it's not believing in it, or thinking or philosophizing about it, which will create the desired effect. Only by contacting the source of all orderliness, creativity, intelligence, invincibility, self-sufficiency, the field of all possibilities, the home of all the laws of nature in ourselves, will it become a reality.

Groups of Vedic experts

Now thousands of people are realizing this and are coming together in places like Fairfield, USA at the Maharishi University of Management, in Meru Holland, in many South-American countries, in India and other countries of the world. World Peace and Heaven on Earth are dawning, characterized by rising positivity, harmony and invincibility. (see Global Good News)

It is difficult to express in words how grateful we are to Maharishi, to Guru Dev and the Holy Tradition of masters, to bring to us, at a time in which it is most needed in the world, the Transcendental Meditation and the TM Sidhi programme for the development of full mental potential; Maharishi Ayurveda for prevention of disease; Maharishi Gandharva Veda, Vedic music to create harmony and world peace; Maharishi Jyotish and Yagya for averting the danger that has not yet come and Maharishi Sthapatya Veda for living in fortunate homes.

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