Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

Modern science and vedic science: an introductionAccording to Maharishi, the cornerstone of Ayurveda is the developmentof consciousness. Perfect health in mind, body, and behavioris the result of perfect balance in consciousness and physiology. Thisdevelops through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs,including Yogic Flying, when the mind identifies itself with theunified field, the field of perfect balance and wholeness.Maharishi Ayurveda combines Maharishi’s technologies of consciousnesswith specific procedures to treat and prevent illness andpromote longevity. Maharishi Ayurveda Medical Centers have beenestablished in many countries to eliminate the basis of sickness, createperfect health, and reverse the aging process. Over the last fifteen years,research into the effects of Maharishi’s technologies of consciousness,on health have been carried out at research institutions all over theworld, and Maharishi’s recent emphasis on Ayurveda provides manynew research opportunities for investigating the applications of VedicScience in the area of health.Maharishi’s technologies of consciousness also include technologiesto accomplish specific goals of individual and social life. The TM-Sidhiprogram has been founded by Maharishi to utilize the knowledge andthe organizing power of the unified field for improving achievements inevery area of human endeavor.Unfolding Full Human Potential through the TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi programsWhen one gains the level of experience of the self-interacting dynamicsof consciousness, Maharishi holds, one gains command over allthe laws of nature. Stationed at the source of all the laws of nature,at the “central switchboard” of nature’s activity, human consciousnesscan command all the laws of nature to create any desirable effect inthe material world. Maharishi has brought forth a program for gainingmastery over all the laws of nature, based on the formulations found inthe ancient Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali, one of the principal books of Vedicliterature. This is the TM-Sidhi program, in which the mind gains theability to function from the level of the self-interacting dynamics of theunified field. Once established in pure self-referral awareness throughthe practice of the Transcendental Meditation program, an individual593