Maharishi’s Press Conference, 15 December 2004
The world is going to be better and better, because what we are speaking is the truth that is all over. The Unified Field is all over. The Self of everyone, the divinity in man, is all over.
Therefore, so everyone can participate in it, we are now raising the voice of invincibility to every nation.
Can the destructive military forces–ask any military in the world–save the country? They will say, ‘No.’ No country can claim that they can really save the country. The maximum they can do is sacrifice themselves in the name of the country. They can die in the name of the country, but they cannot save the country. Every military, every president, all the people can die in the name of the nation, but they cannot save the nation.
All the laws of the country do not train the people to be happy–
they leave the people unhappy and unsatisfied. The people make mistakes and are put in jail. This government is a wrong government. It is not a parental role. Put the people in the jail–
why? Why be cruel to your own children?
For example, when you have not trained your boy to be a good driver, you can expect him to have an accident anytime.
Therefore, all these governments are worthy of being sympathized with by us who have the knowledge and can prevent problems. These days, it is very good that the world press can be reached from any one point, and the message can go ahead.
Invincibility is a dream word; the same with sovereignty.
Sovereignty, no one is sovereign; no government is sovereign.
Every government is under the thrills of fear–there is no sense of sovereignty. Sovereignty means invincibility. Who can say
any country is invincible? No one can say any country is invincible. There is lack of intelligence. But there are some spots in the world that are powerhouses here, there, and everywhere. So people have a choice to not be in darkness, even in the night. Everywhere could be dark, but one could still be in one’s own home, full of light.
It is very good. The chance is there; the opportunity is there.
We are there with great love and with great appreciation. We invite the people to take to bliss consciousness. And if they think bliss is not possible, then they should think that in this scientific age, everything is possible. So bliss is also possible;
invincibility is also possible; Heaven on Earth is also possible.
Let us make it.
We are here every week to answer questions. We are not in a position to criticize anyone, because we have not given the knowledge to them, and they have not gotten the knowledge in their traditional universities or whatever. So let’s act from our level of knowledge and give the lighted lamp to everyone, and let no one be continuing in the darkness with leaders like Dr Hagelin existing in the field of science and technology.
Now all the religious books are singing the glory of God. They have been singing all along, and they will sing today. They will sing today and continuously, because they are in the direction of all knowledge, all possible action. Everything is a possibility.
Invocation For The Dawn Of The Age Of Enlightenment
I bow down to the Tradition of Masters starting from Lord Narayana, with Shri Shukacharya in the middle, and extending to Bhagavan Shankaracharya. I bow down to Him who breathes out the Veda and creates the universe from it, remaining uninvolved, and who is the cherished shrine of pilgrimage for all the streams of knowledge.
Mother Divine! Now on Thine own, think of bringing the Dawn of Enlightenment to the whole world and destroying the fear of all that is not good. Do not wait for our prayers to reach Thine altar, Ma!
Thine immeasurable influence and strength is beyond the reach of prayers even from the Lord Almighty, the Lord of Creation, and the Lord of Dissolution.
May the good belong to all the people in the world. May the rulers go by the path of justice. May the best of men and their source always prove to be a blessing. May all the world rejoice in happiness. May rain come in time and plentifulness be on earth. May this world be free from suffering and the noble ones be free from fears.
I bow down to Shri Guru Dev, at whose door the impulses of creative intelligence assemble to pray for perfection day and night. Adorned with immeasurable glory, preceptor of the whole world, having bowed down to him, we gain fulfillment.
Skilled in dispelling the cloud of ignorance of the people, the gentle emancipator, Brahmananda Sarasvati, the supreme teacher, full of brilliance him I bring to my awareness.
Kalas
The Sixteen Kalas
Bad Mergentheim, 1964
Maharishi: This statement of the five elements, the five channels of creation, or different sections of life in the universe, is based on a very natural analysis of what the life is;
most natural analysis ever made about the whole existence.
And as science advances more and more, they are going to come to the five tattvas [elements] and their corresponding channels or creations, and then each of the creation has three divisions according to the Gunas–Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.
Earth element predominant creation has three sections–
Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Like that water element predominant creation will have three sections–Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.
Like that fifteen natural divisions of the whole creation in the relative field. And the sixteenth is the Absolute, all-pervading.
And these are the Kalas. And these give us sixteen basic features of life. Now each basic feature of life has a basic problem. Arjuna in Gita asked Lord Krishna these sixteen basic problems of life. The whole of the Gita is an answer to these sixteen basic problems of life. And this gives us at hand the solution of any problem in life, because any problem will fall under some category of these sixteen basic problems, because they are the basic problems of life.
So here in Gita we will find the solution to every problem in life, because Gita is [presents] all the basic problem of life.
Basic problem of life means, the problem where there would be no possibility of a problem, yet a problem was found there, and it was resolved. This is what we mean by basic problem of life. So we shall have the commentary of Gita in view of these basic problems of life, and the solution of all these basic problems of life. And which will help any man to resolve all problems.
And the whole thing is going to be on the basis that one will not be required to do anything great to resolve the problem. By reading those verses, from that angle of vision one’s consciousness will be raised enough that the problem will not be found. This will be the resolution of the problem. All the innumerable problems of life could be divided into these sixteen channels.
And if we read those particular verses which give the solution of this basic problem, then by reading those verses consciousness would be raised to a level where the problem could not be found. That will be the enlightenment from those verses. On this level we will have the commentary of Gita.
By reading that, the consciousness will be raised that the problem could cease to be a problem. Because Arjuna has raised those problems on this extreme state of life where problems should not have existed, where fulfilment should be the natural state, yet Arjuna created a problem, and Lord Krishna solved that problem.
So if that extreme problem could be solved, all others are not
even a shadow of those problems. Our problems in life, whatever great nonsense they seem to be, they are not even a particle of dust. They look so great as long our consciousness has not been enlightened on that angle. And once we get the enlightenment, no problem. Problems are not to be solved on [the level of problem], because problems are just imaginary.
What is necessary to solve the problem is raise the consciousness, and then it is solved.
Kali Yuga & Life
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