When it comes to expounding Vedic knowledge, MMY is still on the ball.
Note his response about the future of the TM org. It doesn't endorse the rigid structure that currently pervades the TM org.. I think that this quote will be referred to quite alot after MMY passes on in refuting the control that the TM org will try to exert at that time.
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Question: The Difference Between Transcending and Cognition
Dr Hagelin: 'What is the difference in the mechanics of a person who transcends and experiences pure Being—pure, unmanifest Veda at the source of thought—and the process that a Rishi undergoes when he cognises the Veda, when he sees and hears the hymns of the Veda. So the question is: What is the difference between transcending to experience pure Being, and cognising the Veda within that reality of Being?'
Maharishi: 'When we say Veda, in that three values are involved: the Rishi, which means the seer; the process
of seeing; and the object of sight. So the seer, seeing, and the sight—all the three mean the Veda.
Rishi, Devata, Chhand—all the three mean the Veda, Total Knowledge. Cognition of the Veda means when you
hear the Veda, when you see the Veda, then what you see is: who is the seer, what is the seeing process,
and what is the sight, which is the goal of seeing.
'The seer, seeing, and the sight—Rishi, Devata, Chhand—are the cognitions of the three aspects of the
Veda. When we say all the three, then we say all the three together—Samhita. "Samhita" means the Unified
Field, the Unified Field of all the three—Rishi, Devata, Chhand. Three in togetherness—that is the
Veda. That is the soul of everyone. That is the Atma of everyone. That is the Totality. That is Unity
Consciousness. That is Brahm. "Aham Brahm"—I am Totality, I am Brahm. That is the reality of man in
the Light of God. That is why man has that authenticity. Man is the master of his own destiny,
because at the top level he is on the level of the Almighty, total liveliness of Natural Law, cosmic law,
divine law, pure divinity, God, the Unified Field.'
Question: Religious Differences and the Unified Field
Mr Jones: 'Maharishi, thank you for that. When you look at the world now and you see the stark division
that exists between the Islamic world and the Christian world, do you look at one side and say,
"Well, I have more sympathy with that side or the other side"? Also, how do you see that this great
conflict might be resolved through Transcendental Meditation?'
Maharishi: 'Transcendental Meditation is one thing on the level of experience. On the level of theory, they
will all come to the Unified Field. The Unified Field is a field which unifies all differences. Christianity
has a God, and Islam has a God, and Buddhism has a God, and this one has a God, and this one has a God.
The Unified Field has all the Gods on one level, the unified level. So it is the scientific age that is
going to eliminate the thorny edge of differences of all religions. Not only all religions, but all systems
of politics, all systems of economy, all systems of differences everywhere.
'This is going to be the scientific approach to life, now that the Unified Field has been discovered by Dr
Hagelin and his colleagues in the world. When the top level has been known, young students' time should not
be wasted in test-tube laboratories. In those days when science was developing, then the test-tube
laboratories for students were all right. Now, the students should be given the direct experience of the
Unified Field and the direct understanding of all the mathematical calculations emerging from zero, from the
zero-point motion, where all the Unified Field is a reality—from zero. What is not being taught in the schools is zero.
'Mathematics starts not from one, two, three, four, five, but from zero. When we write a Vedic one, first
we write the zero and lengthen the line to be one. So, when we see a Vedic one it has a zero in it and one in
it. When we write any other one, say supposing an English one, a straight one, there is no zero. What is
missing is the source of one. The source of one is missing in other units of language, in other
languages, but in the Vedic language, zero is there and one is there. In other languages, a simple one is
there. When one is there, one hangs without a source, and anything without a source will never satisfy the
completeness of knowledge. It is a very simple argument, which I am giving just to say that even
mathematics, which decides so many different values, is without its real permanent basis.
'So we go to Vedic Mathematics, we go to Vedic Language, we go to Vedic _expression_, we go to Vedic
Silence. Then, we have trained our brain physiology to function completely, and we are really fully developed
individuals, fully developed human beings. We are expressions of the divine. We are the masters of our
own destiny; otherwise, we are slaves of situations and circumstances.
Question: The Future of the TM Movement
Mr Jones: 'I do not know precisely what age you are, but clearly you will not live forever, like any of us.
What will happen to the TM Movement when you pass on? Do you have successors in mind? Do you need a
successor to be a figurehead of the Movement or how will it work?'
Maharishi: 'It does not work on the individual level; it works on a cosmic level, which is expressed in the
individual. A body is to pass on, but Transcendental Meditation is not my creation. Transcendental
Meditation has been throughout the ages since time immemorial. The unmanifest, self-referral, Unified
Field is Transcendental Meditation. People forget about it; someone comes to say it is there with you.
He passes away. This passing away is not of any importance. We do not give importance to the
individual. We give importance to the transcendental reality, which transcends the individual and
establishes the universal, eternal oneness of Being.
'A man speaks on it in these years, and another man speaks on this in that year. So it is not the
individual; it is the same reality that is eternal. It is being spoken by those who like to enjoy speaking
about it. I am not thinking of my life or death or this. I am thinking that Transcendental Meditation has
now very properly come to bless nations as a whole, to bless the unified value of all nations at a time when
all the people of the world—all your intelligent people I mean—are hankering to find a solution. This
gives a solution to them.'
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