Professor Tony Nader is President of Maharishi Open University, which broadcasts courses to every continent via a global network of eight satellites. Under Maharishi’s guidance, Professor Nader has discovered Veda and the Vedic Literature within the human physiology. He is currently teaching the Maharishi Open University course, "Creating a Perfect Man."

Enlightenment: What is the purpose and structure of the Creating a Perfect Man course?

Professor Tony Nader: The purpose of the course, as its title says, is to create a perfect man, a perfect human being. Maharishi explained at the beginning of the course that perfection is already present within us. It’s only a question of awakening our intelligence, our memory and our consciousness to realize we have that within us. Once we realize that, it will naturally zoom forth by itself, and then we can truly live perfection in life.

So the course is structured to awaken that realization within us—not just intellectually, but also experientially. Both are important. The intellect has to realize that truly perfection is within us, and that opens the door for the experience to be more genuine, more real and more believable.

So the course presents the reality that we are the Veda, that the Veda is truly the basis of our consciousness, our mind, and even our physiology.

Enlightenment: During the Creating a Perfect Man course, students listen to recitations of Vedic sounds. Are there different effects from listening to the Vedic sounds and studying the knowledge intellectually?

Professor Tony Nader: There are these two different values—experience and understanding. Understanding opens up the door, and experience invites the reality in.

After hearing a lesson from Maharishi Open University, the student feels, "Yes, I am Shiksha." His door is open, his awareness is open, he is expanded and more able to let these Vedic sounds really permeate the physiology.

The sounds are the same but they create different effects on people, depending upon how dull or how refined the nervous system is.

The fine fibers in our body are very delicate. But in a non-delicate structure where there is stress and strain, these fibers can be as if clogged or glued, so they can’t experience the fine reverberations. A person who is gross in their behavior and their thinking doesn’t feel the fine fabrics of creation.

So the importance of listening to the knowledge is to start purifying the nervous system. When you gain the knowledge, you remove the doubt, you remove the limitation. This is opening up the door. Then when the Vedic sounds come, they find a much more refined and open structure in the body in which to reverberate.

When you listen to the Veda, the Vedic sounds find in your physiology their corresponding counterparts, and those parts literally reverberate. When they reverberate, they shake off some of the dust and deposits there, and awaken the physiology in that quality of pure refinement.

That is necessary for the ability to experience and live total Natural Law, pure consciousness, and higher states of consciousness. These are the most delicate, most refined levels of perception that require the most delicate and refined levels of anatomy and physiology.

Enlightenment: How is it that the Vedic sounds are able to target specific health problems?

Professor Tony Nader: It is because the Vedic sounds are specific values at the basis of our physiology. In studying Shiksha for example, one aspect of the Vedic Literature, we have found that the first sukta or chapter corresponds to a particular part of the physiology. It is very specific.

So when you hear that particular sukta chanted, since it is part of the total Natural Law, it will naturally enliven the whole physiology. Because it’s part of the whole, it cannot have any negative side effects and it is able to nourish all the different values of the physiology.

At the same time, its main focus will be on that particular aspect of the body that has been diseased or lost its natural intelligence. That specific part can now recover through those sounds that are the basis of its creation.

If you have a guitar and the strings have lots of dust on them, you can remove the dust without touching the strings by using another guitar that is clean and properly tuned. If you just start plucking a string on the new guitar, this will cause a string on the dusty guitar with the same wavelength to begin to vibrate and shake off its dust.

So for each wavelength, you need the corresponding wavelength to restore it, to help it recover. That’s why specific parts of the Veda and Vedic Literature are used for different parts of the body and for different diseases.

Enlightenment: In a recent Maharishi Open University lesson, you invited the students to become Custodians of Perfect Health. Could you tell us a little more about this project?

Professor Tony Nader: Yes. This is an invitation to those who would like to help bring out Maharishi’s knowledge and programs for the benefit of themselves, their community and the whole world. There will be some training for them to learn how to provide this knowledge to their community, and how to create a perfect man and a perfect society.

Enlightenment: In your invitation, you mentioned a worldwide network to take this knowledge of perfection to everyone.

Professor Tony Nader: This network is based on the availability of these custodians in their own local area, all connected by an advanced global communication system. There are about 1,000 cities in the world with more than 400 thousand population, and a little over 3,000 cities with 100 thousand or more people. So we want to have at least 3,000 custodians in all these cities around the world.

Enlightenment: What new discoveries are arising from your research into Veda and the Vedic Literature?

Professor Tony Nader: With Maharishi’s guidance, I’m going into greater details of the Veda and the Vedic Literature, into their fine structures and sub-structures. In the past couple of years Maharishi has also inspired me to look at Devatas, which we can say are the bundles of Natural Law.

Different values of Natural Law determine each aspect of life, such as wealth, or silence, or dynamism, or the ability to remove obstacles. They are basically total Natural Law, but with a specific direction or inspiration to create a certain effect.

For example, if you want wealth, you will need the support of total Natural Law. It’s not enough to take a few aspects of Natural Law to get wealth. You’ll need support from all sides so that everything works out well for you to be wealthy.

This is the value of total Natural Law, along with surface values of Natural Law working together to give you that outcome of wealth. Now in the Vedic Literature, in the knowledge of Natural Law, there is a specific aspect of wealth called Lakshmi, and this is also available in our physiology.

We have within us all these Devatas, all these values of Natural Law, that can structure any aspect of life that we want—wealth, wisdom, happiness, enlightenment, dynamism. Since all of these are already within us, when we go back to our Self we discover that we are truly cosmic—containing within us all the Laws of Nature and all the administrative intelligence that structures the universe.

By awakening that within ourselves, we are awakening it in the whole environment as well, and then we are able to obtain what we want and to achieve the highest level of evolutionary progress, growth and fulfillment—health and perfection in every field of life.

Maharishi Open University courses include:

• Certificate of Total Knowledge
• Creating a Perfect Man
• Maharishi Sthapatya Veda: Vastu Vidya.

For more information visit their Web site at www.MOU.org

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