His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has invited all the builders of every nation to reconstruct the world in accord with Natural Law—and to do it simultaneously and quickly. "Time and tide wait for no one," Maharishi said during his August 3 global news conference.

Builders will share one-third of their profit with the National Peace Fund in their country and another third with the International Peace Fund. These funds will be used to construct Peace Palaces in every city and fortune-creating homes for the poor.

"All developers, builders, architects, engineers, and suppliers of materials—everyone—is fondly invited to uphold this project in their area and achieve the goal as soon as possible by building only ‘Vastu’ buildings—healthy, fortune-creating buildings laid out according the principles of Sthapatya Veda, Vedic architecture in harmony with Natural Law," Maharishi said.

"Builders will be relieving their area from a great amount of negativity and disharmony—problems of health, behavior, and other misfortunes—caused by living and working in buildings without proper Vastu." (For the advantages and disadvantages of living and not living according to Vastu principles, please see www.GlobalReconstruction.org).

Maharishi said that every government has a kind program to construct housing for the poor, but he strongly encouraged governments to construct only Vastu buildings for this purpose.

"Governments should never build houses that violate the Vastu principles, because such housing will bring more misfortune and difficulties to those who live in them," Maharishi said. "Not knowing that violation of Vastu principles in the layout of buildings is the basic cause of many kinds of problems and suffering in life, individuals, societies, and nations are passing time in the waves of suffering."

Maharishi explained that it needed a scientific age to probe into the betterment of every area of life, and from that came the conclusion that unless people of the world family live in homes built according to Sthapatya Veda (Vastu), peace on every level—individual and collective—will always remain a question mark everywhere.

"To correct the wrong that has prevailed for centuries, our program of Global Reconstruction is being initiated in big cities throughout the world," Maharishi said. "We are inviting developers and builders in major cities of every country to materialise these ‘Fortune-Creating Buildings’ starting with the construction of sample ideal Vastu Peace Colonies of a few hundred acres each in the neighbourhood of every major city."

Maharishi said that once the people experience that their problems dissolve and their creativity blossoms as they live in these newly built Vastu homes, then the old cities will be rebuilt very quickly, and developers and builders will fulfil their role of providing more healthy and more fortunate homes for the population.

"Let us start," Maharishi told the builders and developers. "Let every developer and builder everywhere step onto this fortunate and blessed global enterprise and fulfil their ambition to do something really good by participating in this global program for the reconstruction of the world."

Providing Fortune-Creating Homes through the World Reconstruction Program is just one of the undertakings of the Global Country of World Peace. Other programs include the construction of:

• Maharishi Peace Palaces

• Maharishi Vedic Universities

• Maharishi Colleges and Schools
• Maharishi Colleges of Natural Medicine and Prevention

• Maharishi Spas—Health and Rejuvenation Centres

• Maharishi Natural Medicine Hospitals

• Maharishi Fortune-Creating Office Buildings, Malls, and Hotels

• Farmers villages and other facilities for organic agriculture projects

• Buildings for permanent, professional peace-creating groups.

Builders and developers are invited to contact the International Offices of Global Reconstruction Program through email at ReconstructionProgram@Maharishi.net or Internet at www.GlobalReconstruction.org. There are offices of the Global Reconstruction Program in New York, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Maharishi Vedic City, Beverly Hills, Auckland, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok, Moscow, Johannesburg, Bonn, Amsterdam, Paris, and Sao Paulo.