Juan Ramón Jiménez, Martin Heidegger, and Maharishi Vedic ...

THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING25Maharishi (1966) clarifies the nature of this state from a different angle when he speaks of itin terms of freedom from the binding influence of karma (the field of action, i.e., the field ofboundaries): “With the practice of [the] Transcendental Meditation [technique] . . . the value ofBeing is fully infused into the mind of the performer and the action fails to overshadow hisnature. Being, his essential nature, is then maintained and action is performed in such a way that itfails to overshadow his nature. He then remains unbound by action. In this way, when Being ismaintained, karma fails to bind” (pp. 141–142).26The personified Being who is simultaneously unbounded Being in both poems is characterizedin luminous imagery: concesión radiante [radiant concession], nos encendemos [we ignite],lucimos [we glow], and brightly shines his countenance. It would seem no coincidence thatHeidegger, when speaking about participation in the experience of Being (as it “comes to language”in the pre-Socratic fragments), also uses the imagery of light: “only in the brilliance ofthis lightning streak can we translate ourselves to what is said in the fragment.” Maharishi VedicScience (1992) also speaks in terms of light to describe Being, the field of pure intelligence:“Dynamism of galaxies, stars and everything in the universe is the expression of the quiet brilliantlight of intelligence of Natural Law. Natural Law ever awake within everything is the light of lifethat administers all life with perfect orderliness” (pp. 8–9).ReferencesChandler, K. (1987). Modern science and Vedic science: An introduction. In Modern Science andVedic Science, 1: v–xxviu.Hagelin, J. (1987). Is consciousness the Unified field? A field theorist’s perspective. ModernScience and Vedic Science, 1: 28–87.Heidegger, M. (1949). Existence and being. (D. Scott, Trans.). Chicago: Henry RegneryCompany.Heidegger, M. (1984). The Anaximander fragment. Early Greek Thinking. (D.F. Krell & F. A.Capuzzi, Trans.). San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row.Jiménez, J.R. (1961). La corriente infinita. Madrid: Aguilar.Jiménez, J.R. (1982). Poesías últimas escojidas. (A.Sánchez-Romeralo, Ed.). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (1966). The science of being and art of living. Fairfield, IA: MaharishiInternational University Press.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (1969). On the Bhagavad-Gita, a new translation and commentary.London: Penguin.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (1972). Poetry and the Veda: Part I. [Audiotaped lecture, December 22,La Antilla, Spain].Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (1972a). Poetry and the Veda: Part II. [Audiotaped lecture, December22, 1972, La Antilla, Spain].Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (1974). The nature of learning and the process of knowledge.[Videotaped lecture with Walter Koch, August 22, 1974, Arosa, Switzerland].Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (1986). Life supported by natural law. Washington, DC: Age ofEnlightenment Press.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (1992). Maharishi’s absolute theory of government, automation inadministration. Holland: Maharishi Vedic University Press.99