---------- Hi Everyone! Hope you are all enjoying the Nine Days of Mother Divine. Maharishi said these are the best days of the year to imbibe the power of the Transcendent. The final day is the 8th and Victory Day is the 9th.
Our upside down world is getting turned right side up! Here are some brilliant thoughts on the economic "crisis" from our Prime Minister. I'm sending them around because with the constant media bombardment, the simple truths of the situation are easily obscured. The enlightened perspective is always so refreshing... All love and Jai Guru Dev, Victor Maharishi's comments on the economy quoted by Bevan Morris Dear Friends, These very nice comments come from notes that someone took during a talk by Dr. Bevan Morris on September 24 on the Maharishi Channel regarding the financial events in the U.S. (This is NOT a word for word transcript, but it has the main ideas.) Best wishes, Thierry Jai Guru Dev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our organization has what we call the World Financial Capital at 70 Broad Street in Manhattan, just a hundred yards from the New York Stock Exchange. >From there we went with Dr. John Hagelin to Greenwich Connecticut to meet with Ray Dalio* and 75 other very important members of the financial community to give a lecture about the benefits of TM. [Note these people they met are very rich, Bevan mentioned that their homes ranged from something like $10-30m.] Dr. Fred Travis was also there to present his brain wave research on meditation. After this meeting 40% of the people present expressed the desire to learn TM. With all the turmoil in the markets, the timing of this meeting made our message more important. *[Ray Dalio is an American businessman and hedge fund manager who founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975, a business which manages approximately $160 billion in assets. As of 2007, his net worth was estimated at $4.0 billion. He has been meditating for 35 years, and has been supporting the David Lynch foundation in its mission to teach TM in inner city schools. Now he is strongly encouraging his employees to learn meditation.] Before we acquired the building in Manhattan, Maharishi said that there was something wrong with the financial system in the world. The changing economy means heart palpitations and fear of what will happen. The joy of business is lost in heart palpitations. Everything should be joy. The big banks are always focused on risk. [They say] 'It is too risky, we only invest money where money is.' The result of this is that in countries like Luxembourg, the per capita income is $60,000 per year. The other extreme is in Africa where the per capita income is $3-400 per year. One hundred and fifty times difference between the wealthy and poor countries. Maharishi said this is so wrong. There is a need to restore balance in the world economy. People starve, live with illness, and lack of education. The bankers say, [regarding our efforts to eliminate poverty] 'We can't invest in poverty removal, it is too risky.' At companies like Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and AIG, it was their business to know what was too risky. They did some things that were horribly risky. There is a great irony in this, in that they put themselves out of existence. In the financial community there is ignorance of responsibility to the world and a sense of superficiality. There is a lack of judgment, investments are made in a fruitless way. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank actually run countries. Countries cede sovereignty to the World Bank and the IMF. If any country nationalizes a company, this is considered the worst behavior. Some countries are heavily punished. When the government of Mozambique took control of its cashew industry, there was absolute outrage in Washington, "free markets are the way, let the market rule..." Now in the current financial crisis, the government is nationalizing AIG. The government is doing the same with this bailout. Generally the Republican administration is conservative, "let the market reign" they say. What they are doing now is a type of socialism. Another irony is that the US is doing the very thing that was done in other countries. This is not going unnoticed. Things are being turned upside down. Things will never be the same. The coherence in consciousness is rising in the US [due to our meditation group in Iowa]. We now have 2000 meditating and flying in Fairfield. Things that are not right have to change, they can't continue. These things happen gradually. If they happened all at once it would be too much. Maharishi always wanted the changes to happen easily and gently. This is what he wanted for our own evolution. In the US it took about two years for the group to rise to 2000, soon the numbers will come up to the target number of 2500. I wish that no one be put into difficulty, I believe that it will all restore itself. When I recently arrived in New York, at our center on Broad street, one hundred yards from the New York Stock Exchange, the atmosphere was subdued, even silent, there was a feeling of humility in the air. For the Masters of the Universe there has been a comeuppance. In the financial community, there are many rating agencies, Standard and Poors, Moodys, etc. Maharishi didn't like this. 'Moodys is too moody...' Everyone relies on this but then the paper that was so reliable is not, and then they change the rating, 'its not triple-A, its junk.' Maharishi saw this as ludicrous; it has to change. There are two billion people in the world that are very poor. We live in a nice country. Imagine someone in Africa living next to us, living in a mud hut, walking two miles for water, and no schools. Would we allow it? No one would. Out of sight, means out of mind. They need our help. Vasudeva Kutumbakam (the world is our family). The reality is that nations will function from this level. Each individual, each nation is Veda, the living potentiality of Brahman. Everyone in the world is on this level. We are all united. Everyone is on that level. One united world family. The world united in peace and bliss. It is not enough to say the rich countries should give to the poor countries. Poverty removal should provide the means to raise consciousness. A group of yogic flyers is needed. The (Raam) development currency is for the development of third world countries, using the undeveloped land to grow organic crops, to promote prosperity. This will provide vastu homes, schools and roads [for the people of the developing nations]. With Vedic agriculture, the farmer walks into the field and the plants smile. What better way to make money than by feeding the world with nourishing food. Every nation should be invincible, nothing negative should arise. Those that are deaf to this message will hear. You cannot make three million dollars a year as a bond trader and ignore the rest of the world. This is the beginning of awakening of economics. How long to reach fulfillment, I cannot say. I wish the best to everyone, even to those who have made mistakes. Maharishi is a blessing to us. Jai Guru Dev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Also: http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=122236131731914003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Bevan Morris comments on the current economic situation in the US in light of Maharishi's programmes by Global Good News staff writer Global Good News Translate This Article <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=122236131731914003#tra nslate> <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=122236131731914003#tra nslate> 25 September 2008 Speaking on 24 September Maharishi Global Family Chat <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/watch-live.html> <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/watch-live.html> , Dr Bevan Morris <http://excellenceinaction.globalgoodnews.com/2008/08-march/mar5.html> <http://excellenceinaction.globalgoodnews.com/2008/08-march/mar5.html> , Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace <http://www.globalcountry.org/> <http://www.globalcountry.org/> , described his recent visit to Maharishi Vedic City <http://maharishivediccity.net/> <http://maharishivediccity.net/> , in Iowa, USA, and commented on the current economic and political situations in the United States. Dr Morris had visited Maharishi University of Management <http://www.mum.edu/> <http://www.mum.edu/> and Maharishi Vedic City, where over 900 Vedic Pandits <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=12195111077919013> <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=12195111077919013> are currently part of the Invincible America Assembly <http://www.demonstrationproject.org/> <http://www.demonstrationproject.org/> and also performing daily Yagyas <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/vedic-astrology> <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/vedic-astrology> for the creation of Invincible America and world peace. Dr Morris said it is a very difficult place to leave 'due to the saturated bliss, the feeling of everything flowing in Totality there'. Dr Morris also spoke about the remarkable transformation that has taken place at 70 Broad Street in New York City, the new home of the Global Financial Capital of New York <http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/> <http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/> , which has been completely reconstructed internally and redesigned to be a place where the top leaders in any field will be welcomed and feel completely comfortable. So many people have given so much detailed attention and put in so much hard work to bring the building to completion; Dr Morris praised and appreciated all those individuals who have been involved. Dr Morris then gave his perspective on the current financial situation in the United States and how the Invincible America Assembly is transforming the fortune and destiny of the United States; together with the change in the financial markets and the government, and a group of the most influential and wealthiest executives, who have expressed interest in learning Transcendental Meditation <http://www.tm.org/> <http://www.tm.org/> -all of this coming together at the same time Dr Morris felt was very significant. Dr Morris reminded everyone that the great investment banks would not previously invest in Maharishi Global Development projects <http://www.poverty-removal.org/> <http://www.poverty-removal.org/> because they said the projects were too risky, but now they are collapsing due to unwarranted risks that were taken. Dr Morris said that the current financial system, which he felt is 'upside down', is now being purified by the upsurge of coherence in the collective consciousness. That which he felt was completely wrong, the huge contrast between the great wealth and extreme poverty in the world-the upside down nature of the economy and finances-is now being set right, although we cannot foresee in what way this will unfold. Dr Morris felt it must be that all these areas have to be purified if we are to have a better world, and it was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/achievements/Maharishi.html> <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/achievements/Maharishi.html> intention that these transformations would be gradual, not happening so quickly that it would be destructive. Maharishi had said previously that it was not the money from the banks that will relieve the poverty in the world. It is the infinite potential of consciousness that has to be enlivened and that will relieve the poverty on every level. Dr Morris spoke about Maharishi's Poverty Removal Programme, the great economic development programme with the Global Development Currency, the Raam <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/business-news-a.html?art=1133370410826720> <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/business-news-a.html?art=1133370410826720> ; through this programme, any government will be able to rebuild and develop the schools <http://www.consciousnessbasededucation.org.uk/> <http://www.consciousnessbasededucation.org.uk/> , the housing, the roads, the cities, and also clinics for Maharishi Ayur-Veda <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/vedic-health/index.html> <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/vedic-health/index.html> -all built according to Vedic principles of architecture, Maharishi Sthapatya Veda <http://www.vastu.ca/about_msv.htm> <http://www.vastu.ca/about_msv.htm> . Agriculture can also be transformed and developed through Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture <http://www.mvoai.org/index_noflash.html> <http://www.mvoai.org/index_noflash.html> , in which the unused lands of the poorer countries of the world are used to provide income and wealth through sales of organic produce to other countries. In every area of life transformation is needed-in health, agriculture, education, etc-and now Maharishi's programmes <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/> <http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/> are bringing all these areas of life to be founded on the reality of life, the unbounded level of consciousness, the Unified Field of Natural Law <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=118728346398115> <http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=118728346398115> , 'completely full of bliss and intelligence-and that is the true wealth of everybody', Dr Morris said. C Copyright 2008 Global Good NewsR
