September 2000

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Celebrates Swarn-Jayanti of His Divinity Brahmanand Saraswati
Excerpts, Guru Purnima Address, July 16, 2000

W e have been celebrating Guru Purnima year after year. Every year, symbolic of whole ness, this full moon comes. We have been celebrating according to our eternal tradition of Vedic wisdom, the eternal tradition of that continuum of life which life is.

And to understand that, we have all these systems of gaining knowledge— Veda, Vedanta, Yoga, Karma Mimansa , Samkhya, Vaisheshik—all these different aspects of Vedic knowledge. We have counted them to be 40 in number, and there are branches, sub-branches, leaves, and every grain of the fully developed, ever-growing tree of life. The ever-growing tree of individual life and ever-growing tree of cosmic life, both go the same way: The individual is cosmic. In its cosmic dignity, the individual has infinite freedom, infinite capacity of thought, speech and action.

One could think—one could Be. Thought is a faint aspect of Being. The field of Being is the infinitely ever-expanding galactic universe. This is human capacity.

This is really what we mean by Golden Jubilee—jubilation of that realization about the reality of everyone’s life. This is the jubilation we have been celebrating on one full moon every year, year after year. After so many years, today we find ourselves in a position that we can see the golden glare of reality of life—the cosmically omnipresent golden glare, golden jubilation.

Rishi, Devata and Chandas are three values, with their unified wholeness in terms of Samhita, togetherness. Whosoever is meditating and has been in contact with Meditators, they know there is something special. And what is that? The vision of Totality of life in terms of Samhita of Rishi, Devata and Chandas. This being the reality of life, this reality has been sung day after day, night after night, week after week, year after year, Guru Purnima after Guru Purnima.

Today we want to sing a song which is shining gold, shining golden light everywhere. For this we have an expression in Rik Veda: Anor-amiyanyn. Smaller than the Smallest is that light of consciousness. Smaller than the Smallest is present within the reality of every grain of creation. Each particle of creation is a particle that constitutes infinity, and innumerable infinities.

So the span of life is Anor-amiyanyn and Mahato-mahiyan—Smaller than the Smallest and Bigger than the Biggest. Bigger than the Biggest means ever-expanding universe. And it has been expanding since one could throw one’s imagination in the unbounded eternal field of time and space—the galactic universe—and its character is golden, pleasantly shinning gold.

We are celebrating today the Golden Jubilee of Guru Dev in this reality of life of everyone individually, of every society collectively, of every nation collectively, of the whole world, of our galaxies, of our universe.

The desire has been since the beginning of the Movement to let this real, golden hue of life, which is the reality of everyone’s self-referral consciousness, be the daily experience of everyone in every field of thought, speech and action. This was the aspiration, that when everyone is like that, why not everyone should be like that.

The world has been wrongly guided. Education has not been very satisfactory. Everything depends on education. When the child comes, he doesn’t know anything. Whatever you tell him, that is what he knows. Education is very deplorable because it perpetuates that lethargic field of life which is darkness.

We have been talking for years about the inadequacy of modern university education. (See the Purpose of Education by Maharishi in 1963.) The word "university" has been a very great misnomer since the dawn of the university concept. Man’s consciousness— which is in reality unbounded, infinite, ever-expanding, ever-glowing— has been put into compartmentalized values of knowledge.

Physiologists say that when you see, one part of the brain functions; when you hear, some other part of the brain functions. It’s the same for all the five senses of gaining knowledge and five senses of acting upon that knowledge. All this is segregated experience.

Nothing gives holistic experience except Transcendental Meditation, which allows the active mind to settle down. The settled state of the mind is like the settled state of all the waves on the ocean—self-referral in its absolute silence—having the potential for any strong wave or weak wave. Any wave can come out from the surface of that settled ocean. This is the secret that education everywhere has to learn afresh.

All these university presidents are very proud: "Yes, come to my campus, I’ll give you anything you want." But anything is a segregated field of knowledge, either physics or chemistry or all these different segregated areas. And the worst of this university education is that it gets into smaller and smaller areas as the student advances in his education. In the end he gets a Ph.D., he gets some rewards, but what has come out of him?

The top man in the world in the field of mathematics, physiology or chemistry gets the Nobel Prize. After some time that man gets toppled down by another man, who comes out to say, "That Nobel Prize was given, but the theory was wrong. The right theory is what I’m saying now." So many Nobel Prizes have been condemned, because the very quality of education is compartmentalized.

Every university is proud of having so many departments and so many Ph.D.’s, but the whole thing is a fraud. I have to use this word, while we are celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Guru Dev, because the present state of life has been non-life, darkness. It is just perpetuating darkness, perpetuating darkness, perpetuating darkness.

We have tried in these 40–50 years, in all parts of the world, to show that our program is the program which uncovers the total reality of life—which is brilliance, which is bliss, which is fulfillment, which is invincible. We have to promote this knowledge. In order to promote this, year after year we have been making programs. Now this year also we are making programs for the whole mankind to rise to the reality of life.

Education is in the government’s hands, and every government is devoted and dedicated to its constitution. So now I am challenging all governments today. I am challenging all the universities today. I am challenging all that is existing about life in the field of knowledge and in the field of action. The whole thing is very ugly as far as the reality of life is concerned, which is bliss consciousness. This reality is called Parame Vyoman, the self-referral value of Transcendental Consciousness.

Today when we are celebrating the Golden Jubilee, we are in a very joyful state of Being, we are in a very joyful state of thinking, we are in a very joyful state of speaking, we are in a very joyful state of action. We want to correct the wrongs on earth first, and from this earth what will radiate is the light of supreme quality of gold, which is invincible, self-sufficient, lively within everyone.