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[A recent quote from Maharishi]
[The TM technique opens the awareness to Transcendental Consciousness. The TM-Sidhi programme cultures the ability to think and act from this level]
[Essential advice]
[An excerpt from Wordsworth's classic poem, Tintern Abbey
[What it is modern science has come to learn about the universe the past three hundred years]
[Maharishi, 1955]
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MAHARISHI -- How do you remove poverty on a permanent basis? Not by giving away wealth -- but by enlivening creativity and intelligence in the life of the people. ...
We are establishing in every country a group of a few hundred to a few thousand Yogic Flyers (the number of experts depends upon the population of the country). Through their collective practice, these experts are enlivening the Unified Field -- the unified basis of the diversified universe -- to create integrated national consciousness for a positive, prosperous, invincible nation.
Third Global Conference on Poverty Removal
Global Financial Capital of New York -- 19 June 2007
The TM technique opens the awareness to Transcendental Consciousness, the Unified Field of Natural Law, which is the basis of everyone's awareness. The TM-Sidhi programme cultures the ability to think and act from this level. By learning to function from this self-referral state of pure consciousness, which is the total potential of Natural Law, the mind gains increasing support of nature for the fulfilment of desires. With the TM-Sidhi programme, thought and action spontaneously become more in accord with the evolutionary power of Natural Law. This results in greater skill in action -- the ability to fulfil one's desires naturally while effortlessly promoting the evolution of everyone and everything.
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Skipping breakfast particularly irritates sadhaka pitta, a subdosha of pitta. An imbalanced sadhaka pitta can result in irritability and unsettled emotions. Some suggestions for breakfast: cooked apples, eaten first thing in the morning, help to create "ojas" -- the final and most refined by-product of digestion. Ojas contributes to enhanced vitality, strength, immunity, and overall well being. Sweet juicy fruits are excellent cleansers -- they help to eliminate impurities from the body. According to Ayurveda, it is recommended that fruits be eaten first thing in the morning, 30 minutes before other breakfast items such as hot cereal.
Ayurveda considers walking a tridoshic exercise: it balances all three doshas without putting excessive strain on your body. It calms the mind and nourishes the senses.
Foods that are processed, canned, frozen or packaged are harder to digest, and thus create ama. Also, because they are old, denatured by processing, or include harmful ingredients such as chemical preservatives, they no longer contain nature's intelligence. Rather, they create ama and block nature's intelligence from reaching the cells. Just for today, make the effort to eat a fresh, warm lunch. Eat in a settled, quiet atmosphere and focus on your food when you eat.
Water flushes out accumulated ama or toxins, and keeps the digestion smooth. Sipped throughout the day, water is an excellent healer.
At the end of a tiring day, when you cannot seem to close your eyes, don’t be frustrated: drink a glass of warm milk. Milk should be organic and free of additives, and boiled with a pinch of cardamom before it is drunk in order to make it easier to digest. Drink it alone, away from meals, to avoid indigestion.
Take a "just-for-me" break right now, right here. Disconnect from the outer world and tune in to your own self. Even if you do this for a minute, you will feel healed. Practitioners of Transcendental Meditation say their daily 20-minute Sadhana helps conquer stress and increase positive energy and a sense of well being.
All-natural, caffeine-free teas prepared from nature's healing herbs are a perfect way to relax and recharge: choose from among Maharishi Ayurveda's wide range of gourmet beverages to pick the flavour and blend that suits your unique dosha type and your needs.
The skin thirsts for your touch and attention. When warm herbalized oil is rubbed gently all over the skin, your body and your mind feel pampered and relaxed. Treat your skin to the magic of massage today.
People whose company makes us feel happy and loved are like medicine: they heal and restore us. Keeping in touch with such people nurtures our own hearts.
Ayurvedic healers recommend using totally natural products on your skin: preferably those ingredients that are also safe to eat. Choose from among foods like honey, rose water, cucumber, oatmeal, ground blanched almonds, milk, and yoghurt to prepare packs that will exfoliate, cleanse, and moisturise your skin. At Maharishi Ayurveda, we take the definition of all-natural even a step further. "All-natural actually relates to the ability to protect nature's own intelligence in a product," says Rama Kant Mishra, Ayurvedic dermatologist and formulator of the Youthful Skin line. Not only do we use completely natural ingredients, we make sure that the techniques used to process those ingredients are such that they do not destroy the natural benefits.
Mindful breathing improves the flow of oxygen and other vital nutrients to the tiniest channels of the body, giving you an instant sense of well being.
Ayurvedic physicians emphasise and re-emphasise the value of good sleep, simply because rest is the basis of dynamic activity. If you have been suffering from sleep imbalances, consider Ayurvedic herbals targeted to restore balance and create better quality sleep.
This will be easy to do if you go to bed before 10 p.m. Waking up early gives you time to concentrate on your morning ablutions, and to prepare a good, nourishing breakfast. In addition, it gives you time to enjoy the early morning calm of nature.
When your locks are limp and lifeless, your whole approach to life can turn pessimistic. Counter the problem by paying attention to what you put inside your body. Build small changes into your daily menu. Instead of popcorn, eat fresh fruit. Don't snack on candy: eat soaked blanched almonds instead. Read Maharishi Ayurveda's Flavors of Health newsletter for hundreds of ideas on fresh ways to cook with fruits, vegetables and spices.
From time to time, follow an ama-reducing diet. Periodic internal cleansing with Ayurvedic herbals helps flush the ama out and prevent more from building up. Here is an ama-reducing spice water recipe from Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra, co-author of The Answer to Cancer: Ama Pachana Spice Water To make the water, boil two quarts of water and put it in a thermos flask. Then add two to three thin slices of fresh ginger, 1/4 tsp. cumin, 1/4 tsp. fennel, 2 black peppercorns, and 2 leaves of mint. Let it steep. Drink this water throughout the day for a very purifying effect. Also, this ama pachana water will help enhance your digestion.
Make each meal a celebration. A pleasant table, set with sparkling cutlery, crisp clean napkins, and appetising colours whets the appetite and promotes good digestion.
Turmeric, cumin, coriander, fennel, cardamom - these and other spices used in ayurvedic cooking add not only aroma and flavour, but also healing goodness to your food. Turmeric is an antiseptic, cumin aids digestion, coriander cleanses the system, fennel settles the stomach and cardamom cools the system. Discover the health benefits of spices. "Spices add good flavour and have a yogavahi property, which means that they support digestion and make the nutrients easily available to the body," says Vaidya Mishra.
When you spend time with flowers, butterflies, and trees, you connect in the most intimate way with the earth: of which Ayurveda believes we are all an integral part. This sense of connection is tremendously soothing, particularly for those of us who are under stress.
At any given time, most of us do have small or big imbalances in our physiology. Even small imbalances can lead to discomfort and malaise. A Vaidya will help you understand and correct your imbalances: see one even if you are not feeling particularly unwell.
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This is an excerpt from William Wordsworth's classic poem, Tintern Abbey, in which the poet describes a state of mind that was fairly rare to him, but which we have access to on a daily basis, thanks to the great gift of Transcendental Meditation.
Tintern Abbey [Excerpt]
"..
that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy
and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world,
Is lightened: --
that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,
--
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our
human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a
living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the
deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things".
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
This is an excerpt from a speech during the Natural Law Party campaign in Ashville, North Carolina in 1999.
... I went to university and studied religion and psychology, ultimately became a little disheartened that my religion professors couldn't agree among themselves, who/what God was. And my psychology professors on what consciousness was and where it came from. So I switched to physics. Admittedly less ambitious, but reliable. And after some twenty-seven years that search bore fruit for me. And I thought I would start, not by talking about politics or practical solutions yet, by taking two or three minutes to share what it is modern science has come to learn about the universe the past three hundred years.
Modern physics has been exploring nature's deepest truths and has slowly turned its attention from the superficial to the sublime by studying deeper levels of nature's wisdom at the molecular and atomic, nuclear, sub-nuclear, electro-weak, unified, grand unified, super unified scale. The deeper you go, it turns out, nature presents a startlingly unexpectedly profound organizing intelligence. A richness of intelligence that was previously unsuspected. But anyway in the end, what science has ultimately uncovered is the fulfilment of Einstein's dream, is that nature is superficially complex, but fundamentally simple. Nature is superficially diverse, but fundamentally unified. Because physics has unearthed, at the foundation of the physical universe, at the basis of mind and matter, a single universal unified field of intelligence at the basis of you and me and everyone and everything in the universe. A single universal fountainhead of all of nature's laws; all the particles, all the forces, all the laws of nature governing life at every level of the physical universe have a unified origin in this universal unified field that underlies and pervades us all.
In this universal field of intelligence, at the basis of everything, is a huge field of intelligence. It conducts the life and evolution of millions and millions of species on earth in this intricate web of mutual interdependence and mutual nourishment called earth's ecosystem. It governs the life and expansion of this vast ever-expanding universe with trillions of galaxies, each with a hundred million suns. And if that isn't big enough, we have now realized that this universal unified field of the basis of us and everything percolates universe, an uncountable infinity of simultaneously co-existing universes like bubbles from effervescent ginger ale; 10,143 universes per second per cubic centimeter of primordial space. Now many of these universes are duds. [ Laughter ] They live 10^-43 seconds and then disappear in a burst of energy. But many of them grow. An uncountable infinity of them undergo this, called cosmological inflation; this exponential expansion and they spawn galaxies by the trillions, each with a hundred billion suns, many with planetary systems, perhaps many teeming with life as is our own.
Such is the magnitude, the grandeur, the vastness of nature's organizing intelligence. And it is important to realize that this intelligence is not foreign to us. Every fibre of our physiology is ingrained with that organizing intelligence. The human immune system is the most sophisticated pharmacy in the universe. The human brain physiology, the miracle of human consciousness profoundly mirrors this blueprint of the universe, this intelligence of nature at the basis of the whole universe. We are walking, living libraries of natural law. We carry with us the vast organizing intelligence of nature.
Then I came across a political party dedicated to harnessing nature's profound nourishing intelligence, with the basic premise that none of our national policies need violate any of nature's laws. And ultimately that our policies and programs should be founded on the deepest law, which comes to us now from modern science but really has been with us since time immemorial from all the major religious and philosophical traditions on earth. And that is the unity of humanity; that WE ARE ALL ONE. That is a scientific fact today.
So if we behave toward others in a way that doesn't recognize the ultimate unity of self and others in a way that damages the social environment or our physical environment that is just erroneous behaviour ... and ultimately the fault of education. And I want to come back to that, but I ask the question, what practically does this mean for politics, for the way we choose to govern ourselves, harnessing of nature's laws? It is not rocket science, it really is common sense. There is little I will say that you don't already know. But you will be surprised to know that this kind of thinking is utterly absent from the current political institutions. ...
MAHARISHI -- Under the high flying banner of spiritual development alone can the suffering humanity find solace and peace. Spiritual development of the members of the family of nations, alone can ensure abiding peace in the world. Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life, and live them. Unless the steps of spiritual development are ascended and the pinnacle is reached, the hope of peace and happiness in life will ever remain unrealised.
The Great Spiritual Development Conference of Kerala, India
October 1955
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