Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

improving national economy—alliance with nature’s governmentlems and suffering in individual life arise from violation of natural law,Maharishi emphasizes that all problems in national life arise from theaccumulation of stress in national consciousness due to the continualviolation of natural law by the people of the nation (Maharishi MaheshYogi, 1978, pp. 98–108; Maharishi University of Natural Law, 1982,p. 7). Maharishi explains that the prevalence of problems, disharmony,and unhappiness in the family of man is the consequence of pervasiveviolation of the laws of nature:All problems in the world arise from violations of the laws of nature.Everywhere in the world today there is a lack of happiness, harmony, andreal freedom. This shows that life on earth is not lived in perfect accordwith natural law. (Maharishi College of Natural Law, 1982, p. 2)Maharishi (1979) emphasizes that inadequate education is ultimatelyresponsible for the violation of natural law which gives rise to all problemsin society:All weaknesses or problems in society have their basis in a lack of cultureof the human mind, and this in turn is the result of incompleteeducation. Education is incomplete when it fails to develop the full creativityof the individual and fails to nurture his ability to act in accordancewith the laws of nature. (p. 1)Because the educational system of every country does not educatethe individual to spontaneously think and act according to natural law,the whole population unknowingly, but inevitably, violates the laws ofnature day after day, creating stress in national consciousness (MaharishiUniversity of Natural Law, 1982, p. 7). The unfortunate consequenceof this accumulation of stress in the collective consciousness ofthe nation is that disorder, problems, and negative trends become moreprevalent in society (Maharishi University of Natural Law, 1982):If the collective consciousness of the country is under stress, then incoherentand conflicting tendencies will predominate in society and problems,turbulence, and violence will characterize the nation. (p. 8)Thus the build-up of stress and tension in national consciousnessmust result in the growth of negative trends and problems in nationallife (Maharishi European Research University, 1982a, p. 6; MaharishiMahesh Yogi, 1986, p. 88).399