Beginning with the Transcendental Meditation technique in 1958, Maharishi has systematically brought out his Vedic Approach to Health—a comprehensive approach in accord with Natural Law—to create a healthy individual and a healthy society. Maharishi’s approach is in clear contrast to the approach of modern medicine which is fragmented and produces many hazardous side-effects. Here Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., International President of Maharishi Ayur Veda University, talks about Maharishi’s contributions to health.

Maharishi’s contribution to health is complete and profound and has two aspects: theoretical understanding and practical applications. Maharishi has brought out the understanding of what constitutes health, as well as the understanding of intelligence at the basis of the structure and functioning of the physiology, the senses, the mind, the intellect, and consciousness. Maharishi has also brought out the practical applications of this knowledge through Vedic technologies to actually create a healthy individual and society.

Maharishi started out 40 years ago by introducing the Transcendental Meditation technique because the basis of all aspects of life is the unified field level of consciousness, and by enlivening that field one enlivens order in the mind and structure in the physiology. There are hundreds of research studies to show the benefits to health, including 50% less disease with an enormous potential cost savings to the nation.

But there is more to creating perfect health, so in recent years Maharishi has brought out the importance of living all aspects of life in accord with Natural Law. He developed Sthapatya Veda so that our homes and offices are designed and built in accord with Natural Law. Maharishi brought out the importance of the relationship of the individual with the cosmos and the cycles of the cosmos, and introduced jyotish and technologies of jyotish, such as yagyas, to prevent diseases and prevent problems.

Maharishi also brought out the value of Veda—the complete knowledge of Natural Law—and organized the Vedic Literature as a perfect science of life. He explained that the Vedic Literature is the reverberations of Natural Law expressed in sound form, and therefore it is the Veda and Vedic Literature—Natural Law—that expresses itself in our body and in the cosmos.  This discovery of Veda and Vedic Literature in the human physiology has shown that all aspects of the Veda are present in our body—and that includes the planets, stars, and constellations of stars of the cosmos. They constitute our physiology, and this means that every individual is cosmic. This beautiful discovery holds that body is mind, matter is intelligence, physiology is consciousness.

This discovery has had many practical applications, including Maharishi’s recent introduction of the Chronic Disorders Program and the Maharishi Vedic Instant Relief program, which employ these Vedic technologies to alleviate suffering, including the application of specific sounds of Veda and Vedic Literature for specific disorders. There have already been five double-blind, controlled scientific studies conducted in Europe which show the effectiveness of the Maharishi Vedic Instant Relief program. There have also been many patients with chronic diseases that have been considered impossible to cure through modern medicine, who have found their disorders relieved through the Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health Chronic Disorders Program.

Over the past 40 years Maharishi has revived the total knowledge of what constitutes health and what constitutes human physiology—the relationship of the mind to the body, of the individual to the environment, and all of this to the entire cosmos. With this knowledge we now have at hand the possibility to create a disease-free society, a happy, healthy life with the individual and society living in perfection.