September
1999
Excerpt
Maharishi's
Guru Purnima Address, July 28, 1999
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"This is what comes to us as the
blessings of Guru Dev, emerging from the offerings that we made to Guru
Dev in a traditional Vedic manner. What comes to us is an open door to
perfection in life for everyone on earth.
"And when we analyze on the
scientific level the perception that comes to us, an open door of
perfection in the life of everyone on earth, what is the logic behind it?
What is the scientific character of this open door of perfection to
heaven?
"The reality is Veda. What is
Veda? Pure knowledge. Total knowledge is there, always lively within the
Self of everyone. The Self of everyone is the reality of this open door of
perfection in the life of everyone.
"This is Veda—the field of
pure knowledge. This is Vedanta—the basis of this total knowledge in the
field of consciousness.
"Self-referral state of
everyone’s consciousness is reverberation of consciousness.
Consciousness reverberates in terms of the impulses of conscious- Sounds
of Veda. Vedic sound. Vedavani—
Vedic sounds. This is the reality of the self-referral state of
consciousness of everyone. This is the logic at the basis of this open
door of perfection for the life of everyone on earth.
"It is absolutely simple, it is
absolutely easy. It’s absolutely useful for everyone on earth regardless
of his state of mind, regardless of the level of his intelligence, and
regardless of his state of awakening—whether fully awake, waking,
dreaming, sleeping states of consciousness—it doesn’t matter. In
whatever state of consciousness one may be. The reality at the basis of
every state of consciousness is the self-referral state of Transcendental
Consciousness.
"Fortunately, for the last 40-50
years we have taught Transcendental Meditation throughout the world, and
we have a huge record of scientific research that the capable scientists
in all fields of knowledge have recorded as the benefits coming from this
Transcendental Consciousness. the life of everyone that we are perceiving
today, open door, we are perceiving today because we have taken our
consciousness to a level of that self-referral consciousness. Even when we
are speaking today, that level of self-referral consciousness is the
reality of this perception that everyone is Veda.
"Everyone on the level of
consciousness is total knowledge, the Veda. And the whole body the
expression of the Veda, the whole universe is the expression of the Veda,
the expression of those eternal impulses of consciousness, or
intelligence, which has expressed itself in the reverberation, the Vedic
language, and in the material creation.
"It is a very beautiful time. We
have been teaching this all the time, all these 40-50 years. And every
year on the Guru Purnima day, we have been reviewing our eternal state of
life, and every year we have been proclaiming that life is bliss." |