SUBJECT: Summary of Maharishi's global press conference of 15 January 2003, and details how to connect to this week's press conference on Wednesday, 22 January, at 4:00pm UK time.

Dear Friends, We would especially draw your attention to the section of the release below that presents Maharishi's explanation of how the recitation of the Vedic sounds creates peace in the world.

(21 January 2003) His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi repeated anew his proclamation to world leaders that a new time of enlightenment is dawning on Earth, and he offered every head of state a contract with the Global Country of World Peace to create a prevention-oriented, problem-free administration. Maharishi said that the effects will be produced in any nation within six months of signing the contract.

"We have the scientific knowledge and technologies of consciousness to redress our stress-ridden world, and we want to share the fruit of this knowledge with every government," Maharishi said during his weekly global news conference last Wednesday. "It doesn't matter who the ruler is - a king or a president or a dictator - what matters is that the millions of people who are being ruled are supported by infinite creative intelligence - Total Natural Law - which administers the infinite diversity of the universe with perfect order. We want to bring that same order and harmony, that same evolutionary process, to individual and national life to create a new world of affluence and peace. Everyone now has a choice whether to live in the light - or remain in darkness."

Maharishi's pronouncement to the press came on the final day of a six-day series of international conferences to inaugurate the "Master Plan to Create Prevention-Oriented, Problem-Free Administration" of His Majesty Raja Raam, First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace. The conferences on health, education, administration, economy, defence, and architecture were held at the Capital of the Global Country of World Peace in Meru, Holland, from 10 to 15 January. Maharishi's next global news conferences will be held on Wednesday, 22 January, and Thursday, 23 January 2003 (details below).

Maharishi answered questions from the press about his recent announcement to establish in India several groups of 8,000 Vedic Pandits reciting the Vedas to create harmony and coherence throughout the world. During his inauguration of 2003 as the "Year of Ideal Government" on 12 January, Maharishi said, "From one place on Earth these groups of Vedic Pandits will radiate Higher Intelligence, which will disallow any negativity to sprout anywhere in the world and will promote positive, evolutionary trends and tendencies for all mankind."

During the news conference Maharishi explained how Vedic recitations can create a global influence of coherence. "When armies march to battle there is a particular kind of music that excites soldiers and makes them ready to fight. You can say certain words to people and they will fight among themselves - or you say other words and they will calm down.

"Life expresses itself through words. Vedic sounds are the words of consciousness - the reverberations of the Self of everyone. The whole physical universe is the expression of Vedic sounds - Total Natural Law reverberates in these sounds. We want to establish and properly maintain in India several groups of 8,000 Vedic Pandits reciting these Vedic sounds to enliven the evolutionary power of Total Natural Law in every grain of creation to soothe our stress-ridden world and bring order to the disorderly state of world consciousness."

Maharishi also spoke about a recent invitation to every head of state from His Majesty Raja Raam, First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace, to contract with the Global Country of World Peace for a World Peace Project. The project calls for training, adequately housing, and permanently employing peace-creating groups in every country to create prevention-oriented, problem-free administration. The invitation makes it clear that the financial obligations of the World Peace Project can be fulfilled without any financial pressure to the government.

"Every government has to satisfy millions of people with billions of different tendencies," Maharishi said. "How can a government fulfil its parental role in the nation to motivate all these tendencies in the evolutionary direction? His Majesty Raja Raam is that great scientist and supreme administrator whose scientific research into human physiology revealed that all physical structures in the universe, including the human physiology, are the expressions of Higher Intelligence. He has the knowledge and expertise to enliven Higher Intelligence in individual and national consciousness, so that everyone's thinking and behaviour are spontaneously in harmony with Total Natural Law - so that everyone's life is lived in enlightenment, free from problems and suffering."

With every nation segmented by so many different religions, cultures, and political parties, Maharishi said, "Only the scientific knowledge of Total Natural Law will produce the desirable effect, because only this knowledge is universally applicable and useful to all."

Maharishi concluded the news conference by emphasising that the Global Country of World Peace will not interfere with the existing administration of any nation. "The government can continue with its man- made laws and constitution. They should simply contract with the Global Country of World Peace to create coherence in their national consciousness - just as the government would contract with a bridge builder to build a bridge. The effectiveness of their administration will be multiplied many times - and the results will be produced within six months of the start of the project.

"The knowledge we are offering to every government is complete in its theory and simple in its practical applications. It is based on the real nature of life, on nearly 50 years' experience in all parts of the world, and on hundreds of scientific research studies that verify its effectiveness. It is within our reach to create a prosperous, happy, and peaceful world," Maharishi said. "His Majesty Raja Raam is ready to begin as soon as any government signs a contract."