Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma on January 12, 1917) is the creator of Transcendental Meditation and leader of the Transcendental Meditation Movement. Maharishi states that his teachings are based on the principles espoused by the Adi Shankara (c. 788-820 AD), and taught by his own master, Guru Dev Brahmananda Saraswati. His meditation techniques have been taught to millions of people around the world.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is the founder of Transcendental Meditation. He is widely regarded as the foremost scientist in the field of consciousness, and is considered to be the greatest teacher in the world today.

In 1955 Maharishi left the Valley of the Saints in Uttarkashi, endowed only with the confidence he possessed in the knowledge of life and living bestowed on him by his beloved Master, Shri Guru Dev, His Divinity Brahmananda Saraswati, Jagatguru Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Badarikashram, to extend the light of the Himalayas to the farthest corners of the earth.

Describing his first meeting with Shri Guru Dev, Maharishi once said: 'As a thirsty man arrives at a well, so I arrived at the feet of my Master. The quest of a perfect Master was there. The first sight of his personality was enough to make me surrender at his feet. He was the most highly revered sage in India and was held as the embodiment of divine consciousness . . . .'

In memory of Shri Guru Dev, on 31 December 1957 in Madras, India, celebrating the conference of Spiritual Luminaries of India, Maharishi inaugurated the Spiritual Regeneration to spiritually regenerate the world.

Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation, which is the subjective technology of Maharishi's Vedic Science of Consciousness, is the most widely practised and extensively researched programme of self-development in the world. It unfolds the full potential of Natural Law in human consciousness as the basis of improving all areas of life, and is regarded as the most effective programme of human resource development.

More than 600 scientific research studies, conducted during the past forty years at over 200 independent universities and research institutes in 30 countries, have validated the profound benefits of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Programme for the individual and for every area of society, including health, education, business, industry, rehabilitation, defence, agriculture, and government.

Over five million people in all parts of the world and from all walks of life have learnt Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi has trained 40,000 teachers of the Transcendental Meditation Programme, and more are continuing to be trained.

In addition, more than 100,000 people have learnt Maharishi's TM-Sidhi Programme and are daily practising Yogic Flying, an advanced programme of Transcendental Meditation that dramatically enhances all the benefits brought about by Transcendental Meditation for the individual, and creates a highly purifying influence in world consciousness.

In 1986, on the basis of the Global Maharishi Effect, Maharishi inaugurated his Programme to Create World Peace through the establishment of large groups practising the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme, and by raising Daivi Shakti (the influence of the infinite organizing power of Natural Law) through the Vedic Performance of Yagya, to create a strong purifying influence in world consciousness.

Today Maharishi is establishing permanent groups of peace-creating experts throughout the world, with the largest group in India:

'The goal is to establish a Vedic Capital of Global Administration through Natural Law, with the knowledge of Veda—total Natural Law—as the Constitution, for 16,000 thousand Vedic Pandits to live their Vedic way of life and create and maintain a strong, indomitable influence of coherence in world consciousness, so that peace and harmony prevail, and the whole human race lives in perpetual peace in a problem-free world—perpetual peace on earth.' —Maharishi

Maharishi's inspiration to make every country a 'Country of World Peace', and his invitation to every government to declare their country a 'Country of World Peace', led to the inauguration, on 7 October 2000, of Maharishi's Global Country of World Peace.

Maharishi is currently establishing 3,000 Peace Palaces‡ to administer Maharishi's Global Country of World Peace for all time to come. Maharishi Peace Palaces are the local administrative centres of Maharishi's Global Country of World Peace, which will educate the population in the knowledge of total Natural Law.

The complete revival of Vedic Wisdom through Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology of Consciousness and the application of this perfect knowledge in all areas of society to raise individual life to perfection—life in fulfilment; the establishment of Maharishi Schools, Colleges, and Universities around the world to educate all ages of the growing youth in the science and art of practically living daily life in full accordance with Natural Law, will provide the ground of knowledge and its infinite organizing power to sustain the supreme quality of life on earth—Heaven on Earth—for all mankind in all generations to come.

Maharishi in the world today is a cosmic figure caring for the well-being of all mankind and establishing a system to perpetuate life according to Natural Law, the cherished ideal of every government.

In the whole galaxy of rulers on earth, there has never been and there will never be a greater ruling intelligence than the one to quietly establish the rule of administration through Natural Law throughout the world, administration through Dharma throughout the world, which is bringing the Light of Heaven on Earth; which is restoring the glory of Heaven on Earth; which is making life on earth heavenly; and which is making Heaven on Earth a reality.

This is Maharishi in the world today, a quiet guardian of all nations. Through his brilliance in the field of knowledge and administration, every government now has the opportunity to actualize the supreme purpose of government.

Books by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is credited as the author of more than 16 books. The two most well-known to TM practitioners are the Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, Chapters 1-6.