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Maharishi says Bush pushes world towards destruction
Urges leaders to adopt peaceful Vedic approach to defence
(See News Release–page 2)
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His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Founder of the Transcendental Meditation programme and the Global Country of World Peace
His Excellency Dr John Hagelin
Minister of Science and Technology, Global Country of World Peace
His Excellency Dr Bevan Morris
Minister of Enlightenment, Global Country of World Peace
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Minister of Finance, Global Country of World Peace
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NEWS RELEASE
Maharishi says Bush
pushes world towards destruction
Urges leaders to adopt peaceful Vedic approach to defence
(Global news conference with Maharishi on 3 July 2002–details on page 1)
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JULY) – US President George W. Bush, Jr,. is pushing the world towards destruction with his ill-conceived fight against terrorism, and heads of state should not follow his lead, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will announce during a global satellite news conference on Wednesday, 3 July (see details on page 1).Maharishi will urge government leaders to instead adopt prevention—“the only solution to crime and terrorism”—and utilise his peaceful Vedic approach to defence which “promotes coherence in national consciousness and prevents the birth of an enemy.”
Maharishi says Bush’s strategy of bombing and killing will never create peace; rather, it just fuels fear and incites retribution. And now, with the widespread availability of deadly new weapons, Maharishi says that no country is safe from destruction. “One missile dropped on a country and everything is in ashes—and the military cannot stop it.”
“Killing is sin, and the killer will be destroyed.”
“Killing is sin,” Maharishi says. “It doesn’t matter who is doing the killing—a head of state, a businessman, or a labourer. Killing is sin, and the killer will be destroyed. This is not me saying that. This is in every religion: ‘As you sow, so shall you reap.’ And killing by the military is a much bigger sin, because it will come back on the whole country.”
Maharishi also deplores the lack of competent leadership in the world and the chaotic national administrations that are based on deeply flawed, humanly conceived constitutions. He says that the authority of rulership must be based on the deepest level of Nature’s functioning—“the Unified Field of Natural Law, the Constitution of the Universe, which governs the universe with perfect order and without a shadow of ignorance”.
Acknowledging “so many bloody wars in the long history of ignorance”, Maharishi says that now, however, the world is in the midst of a phase transition from destruction to invincibility: “A new time of peace and prosperity is dawning.”
Creating coherence in world consciousness
Maharishi says he is establishing several large groups of Vedic Pandits throughout the globe who will practise Vedic Yagyas, Transcendental Meditation, and Yogic Flying to create indomitable coherence in world consciousness.
“Ignorance will simply disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light,” Maharishi says. “The constitution of every nation will rise to the level of the Constitution of the Universe—the Constitution of the Will of God. No one will make mistakes, no one will commit crimes—and no government will be forced to punish anyone.”
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