Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

Modern science and vedic science: an introductionthe study of the unified field at Maharishi University of Managementconstitutes a method of systematically relating all knowledge to thestudent’s Self. The success of Maharishi University of Management’sConsciousness-Based education is due in part to this program of relatingall knowledge to the unified field and the unified field to the Self.Because all students and faculty at Maharishi University of Managementcollectively practice the Transcendental Meditation technique,regularly gaining the direct experience of the unified field of pure consciousness,this unified field increasingly becomes a living reality. Thisunified field ceases to be an abstract concept and becomes as intimateas the Self. The experience of faculty and students has been that learningand inquiry is joyful and most fulfilling in this environment ofConsciousness-Based education.[The reader is referred to other issues of the journal Modern Scienceand Vedic Science as well as to other volumes in this book seriesConsciousness-Based Education: A Foundation for Teaching and Learningin the Academic Disciplines for articles illustrating how Maharishi VedicScience is trnasforming our unerstanding of modern academic disciplines.—Eds.]Maharishi’s Work in Historical Perspective:An AppreciationMaharishi has created a major watershed in world intellectual history.He has laid the foundation for a fundamental change both in intellectualhistory and in the history of technology and civilization itself. Hiswork has created a new paradigm of the unity of human knowledge,and, we may expect, will unify the sciences and humanities in a moreintegrated way than ever before. He has, moreover, brought to an endthe old notion that man is born to suffer and that life is a struggle.The practical programs he has founded provide a scientifically validatedbasis for reducing and even eliminating crime, war, terrorism, poverty,and other problems that beset mankind; more importantly, his discoveriesmake it possible to live life in the fulfillment of pure knowledgeand permanent bliss consciousness and to achieve the highest goals ofhuman endeavor. He has laid the basis for a new civilization, foundedon new principles of complete, reliable, useful, fulfilling knowledge—601