Subject: Maharishi to create a problem-free India

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi announced this week that he has launched an historically unprecedented program to create a problem-free India as a stepping-stone to creating a problem-free world. Maharishi said that large numbers of peace-creating experts—Vedic Pandits—have now been trained in India. Through the daily routine of their Vedic performances, the Vedic Pandits will create coherent collective consciousness—the basis of invincibility for the nation.

Maharishi invited the world press to watch for signs of the success of his program. "When the Indian government becomes a harmonious Vedic government—when it becomes a beautiful mosaic of differences, free from problems and conflict—then the world press will tell me, ‘Yes, what you have promised has been realised in one country, India."

Maharishi added that the influence of India’s coherent national consciousness will spread throughout the world, and the whole population will breathe life in ease and comfort—just as a lamp that is lit spreads light throughout a hall.

Maharishi’s historic announcement came during his March 23 global news conference. Maharishi will hold his next news conferences on March 30 and 31, which will be broadcast live via satellite and Internet webcast from the Capital of the Global Country of World Peace in Meru, Holland.

Maharishi explained that Vedic knowledge is universal knowledge—equally useful for all countries. However, India was selected as the first nation to demonstrate Maharishi’s program for two reasons:

1. India is the home of the Vedic tradition. "Since times immemorial, there has been a class of people in India—Vedic Pandits—whose life is dedicated to maintaining, and enlivening in collective consciousness, the Veda, Total Natural Law," Maharishi said. "There are now large numbers of Vedic Pandits in India quietly performing Vedic Yagyas and Grahashanti, which they learned from their parents. These Vedic performances will bring the transcendental field of Total Natural Law into the field of behaviour. Then problems will disappear, just as darkness disappears with the onset of light."
2. India is one of the world’s biggest countries—with a population of one billion people.
   "I am starting with India so that no one can say, ‘Oh, you produced the effect in a small country,’" Maharishi said. "India will be a fair measure of the power and dignity of our Vedic approach."

Maharishi acknowledged that the understanding of Vedic knowledge has become distorted due to the foreign rule of India—but the reality of Vedic knowledge remains undisturbed. "Even though the tree may be damaged, the hollow nothingness within the seed—from where a new tree sprouts—remains undisturbed," Maharishi said. "Like that, the Veda, the Constitution of the Universe—the source of the infinite diversity of the ever-expanding galactic universe—cannot be disturbed. It is the transcendental, unmanifest, unified reality of life. It is available to the Vedic Pandit on the level of his own total brain functioning—on the level of his own self-referral Transcendental Consciousness."

Maharishi said another sign of the rise of coherence in collective consciousness will be the demise of the divisive influence of democracy in India. "Administration should promote peace, prosperity, and evolution in the nation. But the basis of democracy is disharmony—with one party fighting against another party," Maharishi said. "A sign of our success will be when the Indian government gets out of the smog of democracy—not through fighting, but through creating coherent national consciousness. Then the government will be a Vedic government—administered by the Constitution of the Universe—impartial and equally helpful to everyone."

In order to produce this effect, Maharishi emphasized that the Vedic Pandits must have a proper diet and proper housing to go along with their daily routine of Vedic performances. For that, Maharishi said, the Vedic Pandits will reside in east-facing buildings designed according to Vedic architecture—Sthapatya Veda—to gain the support of Natural Law and bring success to their Vedic performances.

For that reason, Maharishi also called for all improperly designed government buildings in India to be demolished immediately. "Government leaders will never think right, nor will they ever succeed in their functions, as long as they live and work in old buildings with a wrong orientation," Maharishi said. Maharishi added that with rise of coherence in national consciousness, the government will be inspired to demolish the old buildings and India will be renewed on all levels—physical, mental, and spiritual. "Then the light of Total Natural Law will spread from India throughout the world, and all other governments will renew their nations in the same way."

Maharishi concluded by stating that he cannot say exactly when the Indian government will rise to become a Vedic government, but Maharishi did assure the world press that it will happen very soon. "And when it does, we will ring the bell of invincibility," Maharishi said. "Then the world will become a Vedic world—a world of invincibility, affluence, and fulfilment that is free from problems, suffering, and shortcomings—for all individuals and all nations, for all times to come."