December 1999

Bringing Total Knowledge into Daily Life

by Kathryn Greco

"I experienced tremendous growth form the Total Knowledge course," observes an American student, "but I can see already that the Creating a Perfect Man course is going to expand and deepen that growth

Atma-Based Education
In the Certificate of Total Knowledge course, which is the foundation of the Maharishi Open University curriculum, students are introduced to the whole range of Vedic knowledge and modern knowledge. They gain the knowledge  which is supreme in life—knowledge of the Self, or Atma. Students became more familiar with Atma-based education, which is fundamentally different from the intellect-based education which is prevalent today.

"I remember my previous education as a lot of focus and analysis," one student recalls. "But Total Knowledge was very easy learning. I felt that the knowledge accumulated in layers rather than just at one level. With regular practice of my program and the repetition of specific points from different angles, I just listened easily and let the knowledge flow over me. I could feel the changes happening without any effort on my part."

Atma-based education cultivates the consciousness of the student by enlivening the entire brain. This naturally gives rise to a feeling of greater freshness and creativity, raising life to a new, higher level of enjoyment and fulfillment.

The clarity of our experience of Atma, and thus the experience of life, is based upon the physical condition of the brain. Unfortunately, intellect-based education actually prevents the total development of the brain. The segmented approach of focusing on specific fields of Natural Law, such as physics, mathematics, management or art, only enlivens specific parts of the brain, never the total brain. This partial development of the brain is the cause of all stress, strain and failures which are witnessed in the world today.

The foundation course in Total Knowledge begins to correct the dam-age in the brain caused by wrong education. Only the experience of Total Knowledge—the Self, Atom—can produce that total development of the brain.

Creating a Perfect Man
Once a person has completed the Certificate of Total Knowledge course and has that holistic value enlivened in the brain, then the new Creating a Perfect Man course goes deeply into the transformation from Veda to the physiology of the individual and the universe, for the full development of Brahm, Unity Consciousness.

"I remember hearing about the sequential unfoldment of knowledge which would take place through Maharishi Open University courses," says a student. "Now that I have completed Total Knowledge and am beginning Perfect Man, I see how one builds upon the other."

In this course, Professor Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D. presents his new research, conducted under Maharishi’s guidance, on the expressions of the 40 qualities of Veda and the Vedic Literature in the human physiology. According to Professor Nader, the effect of the course will be to "prepare participants for supreme mastery over fundamental ‘switches’ that can enliven specific aspects of Natural Law for the creation of a perfect man."

In describing life in perfection, Professor Nader notes that those living perfection "have gained the ability to be blissful. They have gained the ability to be able to achieve what they want with the least strain, with the least struggle, with the least effort. Because they experience what they are. And from that level of what they are, they are able to act and achieve the purpose of life, which is the expansion of happiness."

"This is an entirely new wave of knowledge," observes one student, "designed to help everyone live a life without mistakes or suffering. I feel that I am finally beginning to understand what ‘perfection’ really means."

Maharishi Open University Student Reports

Algeria
Thank you very much for all that you have organized for this Total Knowledge course. Thank you for this beautiful gift. My meditations became deeper and the effect lasts longer. My consciousness widens, my relationships are becoming better, maybe because I am learning, and integrating, that the human being is cosmic. From time to time, longstanding desires surface and they are now starting to be realized. Thank you again for this beautiful knowledge.

France
The Total Knowledge course in my native language has had a striking effect. All that is said acquires more strength, more life, and goes deeper in me. The impact of the sounds of my Mother Tongue has been very positive and I wanted to mention it. Notions of time and space are fading and then disappear completely after a few minutes of the lesson. I have the sensation that I am in the classroom and not alone at home.

Martinique
We received with great enthusiasm the news of the launching of Maharishi Open University last year. What a great joy now, to be able to receive Total Knowledge in the comfort of our home.

Maharishi taught us in the past that knowledge is inside, structured in our consciousness. We close our eyes, we experience infinite unbounded consciousness. Now we have just to open our eyes and we have Total Knowledge also outside, in the beautiful lessons of Maharishi Open University.

Russia
We are deeply grateful for this beautiful course. It brings so much light, love and goodness that it is difficult to find exact words to describe the feeling that one has from watching the lessons. It is impossible to express this experience of abstract unbounded flow of ocean of Knowledge, which in all its genuine purity flows into the mind and heart of every student of Maharishi Open University.

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