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June
1998
Maharishi's
Inaugural Address, January 12, 1998
Excerpt
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On January 12, 1998, Maharishi’s Second Year of
Global Administration through Natural Law was inaugurated via live
Internet broadcast. The following are highlights from Maharishi’s
inaugural address.
"Such a beautiful, complete science of
totality: Vedic Science. This is what we want to give to the world in
order that everyone may enliven that perfect orderly administration of
natural law in his own consciousness, in his own intelligence, in order to
fulfill the aspiration of human life to know more, to do more, to achieve
more, to do everything—all possibilities. It is completely possible for
anyone to fulfill this innate desire to have the authority over the
unbounded creative intelligence of natural law and let life flow in
perfect order, flow in bliss, have waves of bliss in the ocean of life,
from point to infinity.
"And at every step there is more and more evolution, more and more
order, more and more bliss, more and more freedom, more and more
possibilities. This is the characteristic of the administration through
natural law: it is equally nourishing to all, equally supporting to all,
equally available to all now through this Vedic tradition.
"The logic is very simple. Everyone who can think can certainly have
the ability to be quiet. If the mind can move around, run about and get
tired, it always has the ability to sit and be quiet. So this skill is to
bring the mind to one silent level of quietness, and this is called
collecting the mind. This is called Yoga.
"Yogastah kuru karmani*, collect the mind from wandering.
Remain in your Self, and then you are in the custody of total natural law,
which is the Veda. Veda is not studied from books, Veda is not studied
from commentaries, Veda is enlivened in one’s awareness. By what? Not by
any commentary, not by anything except by having the intelligence be
itself.
"Humanly conducted administration in the world is just laws of
different countries according to their constitutions which are humanly
made. Well made, well meaning, but never enough to have order, because
humanly structured laws cannot, due to their limitations, fulfill the
desire of the unlimited people in the country. No government has succeeded
in the history of governments to fulfill the desire of millions of people.
"So this enormous requirement of the administration to fulfill the
life of all the people can be satisfied only by the administration of
natural law, which fulfills the requirement of night and day, of sun, of
moon, of galaxies, of stars, of planets—infinite diversity kept in
perfect order, kept as if unified but still giving freedom for every
individual to enjoy in bliss, in the small waves of happiness, to enjoy
the bliss.
"It’s like this: a small ripple in the ocean has the basic
potential of enjoying the total depth of the ocean, to ride a tidal wave.
The potentiality is there. And this potentiality is developed in every
human being through this Vedic education—where it’s not through
reading, or studying, or remembering of anything, but waking up within
oneself and spontaneously having a natural authority over the total
organizing power of natural law."—Maharishi
*Yogasthah kuru karmani (Bhagavad-Gita,
2.48) Established in the Self, perform action.
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