A mother in Germany quickly cleans the kitchen after dinner, while helping one child with his homework and getting the other ready for bed. A few minutes later, she goes to the TV room, both children following, to watch the next Maharishi Open University lesson. "My children love watching the lessons with me. They like saying the 40 qualities, especially the Sanskrit, which seems to come easily for them. When it is time for bed, my youngest waves at the TV screen and says, ‘Goodnight Maharishi.’ MOU has brought a new level of happiness and harmony to our household."

Families and groups all over the world are experiencing the profound effects of Total Knowledge on themselves and their environment. At the same time, individuals are experiencing their unbounded nature more clearly than ever before.

Total Knowledge Course Transforms Lives
The course on Total Knowledge offered by Maharishi Open University creates transformation. Students experience positive changes in their lives. They say, as did one student from Iowa, that they are "happier and more effective in activity," and that "the activity is done not through hard work, but very frequently the results come through mere desiring." Maharishi Open University has received hundreds of letters from students around the world expressing delight in the transformation of their daily experiences.

A student from California writes: "Since starting the Total Knowledge course I feel I am meditating with the whole world. My daily activities are more dynamic and structured, but I remain expanded in what feels like a sheath of bubbling joy and stillness. The unfoldment of Total Knowledge is connecting me more deeply every moment to everyone and everything. Sometimes I ask myself, ‘Who is having this thought? Who is laughing this laugh?’ all the while remaining in the fullness of the transcendent during activity. I did not expect such unifying experience so quickly from this course. The Total Knowledge course is more blissful and enjoyable and rewarding than I ever imagined. This long distance learning has no boundaries to the level of experience we can have."

Creating Perfection in Human Life
On July 28, 1999, Guru Purnima Day, Maharishi Open University will begin offering a new course on creating perfection in human life. Maharishi has said that this course will substantiate the course on Total Knowledge. It will take the knowledge from the first course to a new level, to help students create perfection in their lives and their environments. It will build on the knowledge which students have gained in the first course: the knowledge of Atma—the Cosmic Self of everyone; knowledge of Veda and the Vedic Literature; and knowledge of the total potential of Natural Law.

Knowledge Unfolds Sequentially
As the bud unfolds into the fully blossomed rose, so Total Knowledge will continue to unfold in a perfect sequence, taking students to ever-greater levels of understanding and experience. Due to this sequential unfoldment of new knowledge, completion of the Certificate of Total Knowledge will be a requirement for enrolling in the Creating Perfection in Human Life course. Those pioneering 15,000 students who recently completed the Certificate of Total Knowledge course will be the first class eligible to enroll in this next step of knowledge.

Maharishi Open University administrator Jean Irwin comments, "This new course is such a simple way to continue to build on the great wave of coherence that students have enjoyed together on every continent. In this way, they can continue to enjoy ever greater coherence and transformation in their own lives and in the environment."

Total Knowledge Course to Begin Again
The Certificate of Total Knowledge course will also begin for new students on Guru Purnima in July. As the foundation course of Maharishi Open University, the Total Knowledge course will be offered on an on-going basis. This will give everyone the opportunity to grow in the evolutionary experiences expressed by so many students from around the world.

For example, a businessman in Sidney, Australia said, "I’ve experienced a sudden leap of improvement in the quality of my life. Stress has almost disappeared and I can think much more clearly, even in situations I couldn’t handle before. Even luck seems to join me more often now."

And a New York engineer expressed his satisfaction with the course: "I feel that my confidence and happiness are growing day by day. I look forward to completing the first course and going on to many, many others provided by your wonderful satellite system."

Courses Available From Maharishi Open University

1. Certificate of Total Knowledge
   Two 2-hour classes each week over 6 months. This course in Total Knowledge covers the entire range of Maharishi Vedic Science, unfolding the cosmic potential of the student by developing his or her total brain. This course is a requirement for enrolling in Creating Perfection in Human Life.
2. Creating Perfection in Human Life
   Two 2-hour classes each week over 6 months. Completion of the Certificate of Total Knowledge is a requirement for enrolling in this course. It will take the knowledge from the first course to a new level, to help students create perfection in their lives and their environments.
3. Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design: Vastu Vidya
   Two lessons per week, a total of 16 two-hour lessons over two months. This course explains how the order, harmony, and good fortune generated by an ideal Vastu disallows harmful, negative influences and creates Heaven on Earth. This course may be taken concurrently with any other course; the only requirement is instruction in the Transcendental Meditation program.
4. MBA Program
   This program will train successful, creative executives who will raise management to a new, enlightened level of performance, which will nourish everyone and everything.

For updated information or to apply, visit the Maharishi Open University website at www.MOU.org.