Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

improving national economy—alliance with nature’s governmentPeaceful co-existence of these opposite forces of life is completely natural.It is only stress that brings life to a state of imbalance where thedestructive potential of natural law becomes over-dominant. (MaharishiUniversity of Natural Law, 1982, p. 5)Thus, according to Maharishi, behavior which violates the lawsof nature governing human development creates stress in individualconsciousness. The resulting predominance of the destructive aspectof natural law, in turn, retards the pace of evolution and gives rise toall forms of problems and suffering in individual life (Maharishi Universityof Natural Law, 1982, pp. 5–6; Maharishi European ResearchUniversity, 1982a, p. 6).On the basis of the principle “as you sow, so shall you reap,” violationof natural law inevitably leads to misery and suffering (MaharishiMahesh Yogi, 1985, p. 151–152). Because natural law always promotesgrowth and evolution, Maharishi explains, “as soon as we violate naturallaw we are set right, and all pains, all problems, all failure, all misery,result from this one fact—violation of natural law” (1978, p. 99). Problemsand failures are like a slap from nature to encourage more evolutionarythought and action (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, p. 80).Removing the basis of problems in individual life. According toMaharishi, the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs removes the basis of suffering and problems in individuallife by enlivening the full potential of natural law in human awareness.This eliminates all stress and strain which create imbalance between thedestructive and constructive forces of natural law (Maharishi Universityof Natural Law, 1982, p. 6). Maharishi’s technology of consciousness—the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs—improvesthe quality of individual life by bringing individual life in tune with thelaws of nature, enabling the individual to spontaneously think and actaccording to natural law. Life in greater accord with natural law bringsgreater support of nature, removing obstacles to progress, and settinglife “on an invincible course of evolution towards greater fulfillment,happiness, and creativity” (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1982, p. 5).Maharishi emphasizes that bringing individual and collective consciousnessinto alliance with natural law “is the key to solving all prob-397