MAHARISHI IM INTERVIEV BEI "LARRY KING LIVE"
Subject: Final Version: Accurate Transcript of Maharishi's Interview
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> A few days ago I posted a transcript of Maharishi's interview by
> Larry King, claiming it to be "accurate". Although it was better
> than a lot of the "transcripts" floating around the internet or
> on CNN's website, it is a humbling experience to say that I and
> others discovered almost 20 errors still remaining in it. So
> I've worked for the last 2 days with a group of people to bring
> collective intelligence to bear and make it right. My special
> thanks go to Judy Stein for her expert transcribing and editing
> skills - she made many great suggestions for improvement.
>
> This version has been looked over by a number of very focused
> people, slowly compared to the videotape, and is about as close
> as we're going to get in a linear, printed format to both the
> wording and the subtleties of meaning of Maharishi's expressions.
> I would be proud to show it to Maharishi now.
>
> If you want a transcript to save for yourself, or to send to friends,
> or to post on any other lists, please make use of this. Those of
> us who worked on it release it into the public domain. If you've
> already saved or posted some other transcript, please consider re-
> placing it with this one instead. I believe that Maharishi would
> want the most accurate version of his powerful and historic expres-
> sions to be stored or circulated.
>
> If you do choose to make use of it, all we ask is that you use it
> in its entirety, without changes, additions, or deletions.
>
> Jai Guru Dev
>
> Michael Dean Goodman
> Governor
> Burtonsville MD
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> ***** FINAL VERSION: ACCURATE TRANSCRIPT OF MAHARISHI'S INTERVIEW *****
>
> CNN - LARRY KING WEEKEND
> Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
> Aired 12 May 2002 - 9-10 p.m. EST
>
> LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, exclusive. He was the Beatles' spiritual guru
> and
> he turned the world on to Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi
> gives his first TV interview in 25 years. Next, on LARRY KING WEEKEND.
>
> It's a great pleasure to welcome to LARRY KING LIVE, from Vlodrop,
Holland,
> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
>
> He is the author of the famous book, "Science of Being and Art of Living:
> Transcendental Meditation." He has not done an interview in 25 years.
The
> book has been newly revised and updated, and it's an honor to welcome him
to
> this program.
>
> Is "Maharishi" a title or a name?
>
> MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI, SPIRITUAL GURU AND AUTHOR: Title. I think people
be-
> gin to call - significant of the characteristic of the word "Maharishi".
> "Maha" means great and "rishi" is a seer. The seer of reality. The seer,
> that's what people called, and it became a sort of name.
>
> KING: What is Transcendental Meditation?
>
> MAHARISHI: Transcendental Meditation is something that can be defined as a
> means to do what one wants to do in a better way, in a right way, for
> maximum
> results. It's a program that the mind begins to experience its own finer
> impressions, finer thoughts, and then finally transcends the finest
thought
> and gets to the level of what they call self-referral pure consciousness,
> which is the ultimate reality of life, pure intelligence, from where the
> creation emerges, from where the administration of life is maintained,
from
> where physical expression of the universe has its basis.
>
> So Transcendental Meditation brings about transcendental consciousness,
> which
> is self-referral consciousness, the source of all intelligence.
>
> KING: Why ...
>
> MAHARISHI: It's on that level that intelligence becomes creative intelli-
> gence.
>
> KING: Why does it sound so hard to learn?
>
> MAHARISHI: I've been teaching Transcendental Meditation for 40, 50 years
in
> the world, and everyone who has learned it knows how simple it is, how
easy
> it is, because one's own consciousness cannot be difficult to anyone.
It's
> one's own life. It's one's own intelligence. It's nothing difficult at
> all.
>
> KING: Is there a major first step to take? Supposing I want to learn this
> completely. What's the first thing, other than getting the re-release of
> your book, the first thing I should do?
>
> MAHARISHI: Intend to have a better life. Just intention to have a more
suc-
> cessful life. Think better. Create better influence for others and for
> one-
> self. Just the desire to be a better man, that's all.
>
> KING: So we begin with the desire, which sounds very nice, but does this
re-
> quire a change of personality?
>
> MAHARISHI: Change of personality will be for good as a result of it. But
> the
> intention is, wherever one is, one makes a plunge into the transcendent,
> that's all. There is nothing difficult. There is nothing complicated.
> Only, one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life. And for
> that, one has so much of scientific research now. Hundreds of scientific
> researches, volumes full of volumes there are.
>
> And that you have mentioned, that book, "Science of Being and Art of
> Living,"
> that was the first book that I wrote about 40 years ago. And now, dozens
of
> books are there, hundreds of books, thousands of these videotapes are
there
> for the world.
>
> KING: Why have you been quiet for some time now? Why have you not - have
we
> not seen you much?
>
> MAHARISHI: No, I was not quiet! Only, I got into creating the effect. I
> was
> teaching Transcendental Meditation for 30, 40 years, but I found that the
> world is not yet to the extent of possibility in the field of good. So
I've
> realized that talking about like this, and on and on, I realized that
> talking
> is not too much important. Creating the effect in the world...and now I
am
> engaged in creating the effect in the world.
>
> KING: What you have to say is very important. One would hope that from
now
> on, we'll be hearing more of you.
>
> MAHARISHI: People know enough good, but they're not able to do it because
> the
> effect from outside - the influence from outside - his own society, other
> countries, other cultures, even sun, moon, stars, galaxies - influences,
so
> many, many influences from all over the world, make the mind of a man,
make
> his intellect to decide this, and this, and this. So, if people do what
> they
> know to be good, the knowledge of good is enough in the world for them to
be
> really happy and really peaceful and really remarkably friendly and
suppor-
> tive to everyone.
>
> KING: Does it also improve you from a health standpoint, a physical health
> standpoint?
>
> MAHARISHI: Great amount of scientific research is there to show that
health
> is better, because Transcendental Meditation deals with consciousness, and
> consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The
> entire
> creation is the expression of consciousness. So when we handle conscious-
> ness, through our attention, the consciousness becomes awake, more awake,
so
> more healthy.
>
> So it seems this Transcendental Meditation has very good effect on health.
> It's like the gardener watering the root of life and supplying nourishment
> to
> all the leaves and all the branches and everything.
>
> KING: Let me get a break and come right back with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on
> this edition of LARRY KING LIVE - one of the great spiritual leaders in
the
> world. Don't go away.
>
> (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
>
> KING: We're back with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. His famous book of years
ago,
> "Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation." He's the
> founder of TM [Transcendental Meditation]. There has been a new release
and
> a newly revised version of that historic book.
>
> Everyone got to know the Maharishi when the Beatles went to visit him. I,
> by
> the way, Maharishi, I send the best to you from Paul McCartney who I saw
> last
> week, who - and I told him I was going to be with you and he wanted to
wish
> you the best. We know that your good friends, George Harrison and John
Len-
> non, are gone. What do you believe happens upon death?
>
> MAHARISHI: Death is just a - it gives a new start for a new, fresh
journey.
> In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then one
takes
> other body and takes other body, one takes other body, till the final re-
> demption from diversity is transcended. The totality is found. This is
the
> potential of life, cosmic potential of life, immortality in its field of -
> counting it in terms of time. Immortality.
>
> KING: Do we know what stage we're in?
>
> MAHARISHI: Absolutely. From the Vedic astrology point of view - Vedic as-
> trology - the jyotishis calculate the whole of life from the past and they
> calculate the whole of life in future. This is the field of yagya. And
> when
> they find some wrong, negative influence from sun, moon, star or wherever,
> they make some yagyas. Yagya is a name for a Vedic performance which can
> avert the danger. The Vedic way of life rests on "avert the danger that
has
> not come". Prevention. It uses the knowledge to prevent problems from
com-
> ing on.
>
> The yagya system is so powerful that those who get the yagyas done by the
> Vedic pundits, they find the obstacles don't have to be faced. Sicknesses
> don't have to be faced. Wrong things don't have to faced. One can be the
> master of one's own destiny if one follows the Vedic way of life, which is
> life according to natural law, which can prevent disorders.
>
> KING: What about, Maharishi, those who are the victims of evil, who cannot
> determine their own life. They're in a building on September 11th and
> they're gone. They couldn't make any determination. TM [Transcendental
> Meditation] didn't help them.
>
> MAHARISHI: Everyone has to go sometime or the other, and the basic
principle
> about going or surviving is that no one - now, listen to me! - no one is
re-
> sponsible for giving any difficulty or any pleasure to anyone. Problems
or
> successes, they all are the results of our own actions, karma. The
philoso-
> phy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness.
One's
> own karma, one's own actions, are responsible to come - to bring either
hap-
> piness or success or whatever.
>
> KING: If someone treats me harshly, if someone shoots me or kills you or
> harms a baby, how was the victim a participant in that, other than being
in
> the wrong place at the wrong time?
>
> MAHARISHI: He is the carrier of my own influence. "As you sow, so shall
you
> reap" is a very old proverb of mankind. "As you sow, so shall you reap."
> Sometime you may have killed that man, and then sometime now he comes to
> kill
> you.
>
> KING: Ah.
>
> MAHARISHI: What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it
> comes - either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later,
> whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that
philoso-
> phy, in every religion, killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
> Whosoever sins, whosoever kills, it doesn't matter - it's a sin.
>
> KING: Right.
>
> MAHARISHI: And sin, in the will of God, is a punishable offense, because
> when
> you sin, when you kill some man, what you are killing? You are killing
the
> cosmic potential within the individual. Individual is cosmic. Individual
> potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine, deep inside.
> Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill
a
> man you deprive him of that birthright of his.
>
> It is the right of everyone to rule the world, to dominate in whole nature
> of
> the universe. Master of the universe is every man's potential insight,
cos-
> mic potential. When you kill a man like that, you deprive him from
getting
> to his human right. It's a human right...
>
> KING: What a wonderful way to look at it.
>
> MAHARISHI: ...to live divinity.
>
> KING: Where, Maharishi, were you on September 11th?
>
> MAHARISHI: I heard about it wherever I was, I don't remember now. Because
I
> don't look back in time. I have no time to look back. I have always
looked
> forward, forward, forward.
>
> And now I have come to a level of creating a world free from problems.
> There
> have been always wars. There have been always this, this - negativity,
and
> all this. Throughout world history! It's not one instance. It's not one
> instance. So many Hitlers were born, so many Alexanders were born - all
> those things. And so many will continue to be born on earth. But, now I
> have come to create a situation in the world, through about 40,000 Yogic
> Flyers in the world, and Vedic performers, performers of yagyas, in the
> world. And I'm collecting them in India.
>
> And I invite everyone to send their donations for this purpose which will
> deprive the world of negative trends in life. I want to eliminate the
basis
> of problems, and basis of crimes, and basis of terrorism. That is my
> message
> now, now.
>
> KING: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is our guest on this edition of LARRY KING
LIVE.
> We'll be right back.
>
> (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
>
> KING: We're back with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental
> Meditation, the author of "Science of Being and Art of Living," which ex-
> plains Transcendental Meditation. That book, released many years ago, has
> been newly revised and updated.
>
> How do you deal personally with sadness. George Harrison just died. I
know
> he was a friend of yours. How do you deal when someone you love or like
is
> gone?
>
> MAHARISHI: It's human nature to like those whom you like. And when they
go
> it's natural to be sad about them, but it is inevitable. It's inevitable.
>
> When I found Transcendental Meditation had done good for so many, so many,
> that now I'm thinking of, for the last two, three years, I'm thinking of
na-
> tions as a whole. I want to make the destiny of every nation to be free
> >from
> problems, to be free from suffering, to be free from sin.
>
> I'm establishing a government in the world which will disallow the
sprouting
> of negativity in any country, in any country.
>
> Governments are a failure today. Absolutely every government is a
failure,
> because problems exist everywhere and every government is sovereign. The
> word "sovereign" is a misnomer. Their sovereignty lies in - not able to
> give
> a problem-free administration to the people.
>
> I'm establishing a problem-free administration on the basis of the
Constitu-
> tion of the Universe. The Constitution of the Universe is total natural
> law.
> Natural law, we say from the field of science. Will of God, we say from
the
> field of religion. It's the same thing. Natural law administers the
infi-
> nite diversity of the universe. And I'm going to establish the government
> on
> the basis of this Cosmic Constitution of the Universe. Cosmic
Constitution
> is a stable constitution.
>
> Man-made constitution requires change every four years, five years.
> Election
> of the people. The whole thing is a fraudulent thing.
>
> Administration is a matter of expert intelligence.
>
> KING: But how...
>
> MAHARISHI: It shouldn't be exposed to voters on the street.
>
> KING: How do you change a system of governments and nations and people who
> are opposed to one another and presidents and kings and emperors and
dicta-
> tors? How do you change that?
>
> MAHARISHI: I'll be establishing groups of people practicing Yogic Flying,
> and
> Vedic pundits performing the yagyas, which will eliminate the negative in-
> fluence on life on earth.
>
> This is how my plan is to improve the quality of life on the world by
mini-
> mizing the negative influences from the sun, moon, stars, and from every-
> where. So those groups we'll be establishing - we'll be establishing
groups
> in every country.
>
> I have already this other organization teaching TM [Transcendental Medita-
> tion] in all the countries, and all the governments like it because it
helps
> a better quality of life. Only we have to concentrate now, with the help
of
> each government, because nobody, no government wants chaos and problems
and
> difficulties and crime in the country. That is a very good thing.
>
> But because every government is governed by man-made constitutions, and
man-
> made constitutions are full of human weaknesses and human failings, that
is
> why I'm adopting the Constitution of the Universe, which is the will of
God,
> high above everything. Merciful nature of God, total value of natural
law,
> which is profusely narrated and detailed in the Vedic literature, ancient
> Vedic literature, with all this total knowledge of natural law and the
pro-
> grams to eliminate any difficulty or problem that may be coming from any-
> where. We don't allow the problems. We create that shield, protect our-
> selves. That is the Vedic way of life.
>
> KING: Do you believe in perfection?
>
> MAHARISHI: I'm bringing perfection in life. It's not a matter of belief.
I
> have the positive program and the concrete program to create perfection in
> life.
>
> I want to create every government to be free from military. Military is a
> defeatist feature of a government. Government is not able to protect the
> nation, and therefore they engage the people, give them food that you will
> die for other people. The whole thing is absurd and inhuman.
>
> I want to create a global government, a global government. I have created
a
> country of global - Global Country of World Peace, where no one would harm
> anyone, where no one would do any wrong to anyone. The government will
not
> need a military to protect itself because the principle is that any
military
> is a big sinner. And the sin must come to every - to the whole
population.
>
> KING: We'll take a break and come right back. The Maharishi's movement
has
> its own political party called the Natural Law Party. It's in many, many
> countries. We'll be right back.
>
> (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
>
> KING: We're back with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
>
> How can you be so optimistic, based on all the things you see wrong in the
> world?
>
> MAHARISHI: Optimism comes from so many scientific researches to prove that
> Transcendental Meditation, which I have taught for 40, 50 years in the
> world,
> works to create a better man.
>
> In Fairfield [Iowa], we have that management university [Maharishi
> University
> of Management]. And the professors of the management university have
found
> that the world is being managed badly. Governments are not competent to
> pre-
> vent problems, and therefore, higher intelligence is needed to enrich and
> support the present situation of every government.
>
> Every government, as I said already, has a man-made constitution. And
man-
> made constitution has the value of human failings and human weaknesses.
> That
> is why constitutions are there, and the government is there, and the
people
> are there, and the laws are there. But those laws are futile. They are
not
> able to prevent wrong.
>
> The corruption has been there. All those - crime has been there
throughout
> the ages.
>
> KING: What...
>
> MAHARISHI: Punishment has been there by government throughout the ages.
But
> punishment, and fear of death - hanging them in the jails and all that -
> that
> has been there, but crime continues.
>
> Therefore, something else has to be done. And that something else I am
> going
> to do from the level of the Vedic wisdom of life, which proclaims man is
di-
> vine. Man is all-competent. Human potential is universal potential,
> univer-
> sal capability.
>
> So the concept of government has to be raised to that merciful fatherly
> treatment of the population by the governments.
>
> KING: Do you weep - do you cry when someone you love dies?
>
> MAHARISHI: There is no reason to cry, because I know the - everyone has to
> go
> on and on on the path of the progress, path of progress, path of progress.
> There is nothing to cry about something. When the sun sets in the end of
> the
> day, one doesn't cry for the sun. It's happening, it's happening. The
same
> sun that is setting is going to rise again, and again set, and again rise,
> and again set. So one knows the progression of life.
>
> Now I am working on the possibility of collective destiny of the nation
to-
> wards all good.
>
> KING: What do you make of other modern conveniences? What do you make of
> television? Cell phones?
>
> MAHARISHI: I'm using the television to have my message reach the people,
and
> that is all.
>
> KING: So you accept that progress goes on, and that we make progress in
> things like prescription drugs. Life gets better. We extend life. All
> that
> is good, is it not?
>
> MAHARISHI: Right, right. Anything that is helpful to life, anything that
> will save life from pains and suffering and all those difficulties, that
is
> -
> that is our intention, to have a better world created.
>
> And for that, I am now working from the administrative level. I'm
creating
> an ideal of administration where people will not make mistakes. And when
> they don't make mistakes, they don't create the reason for suffering for
> themselves.
>
> So people should be safe from sinning, from killing each other, from this.
> This is our teaching. "Help thy neighbor" is a very old axiom of mankind.
> "Help thy neighbor."
>
> KING: The Golden Rule - "Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you"
> -
> is probably the only law you need. Every other law fits it. Why has
> mankind
> never done - I mean, what you say makes sense, but mankind has never done
> it,
> never!
>
> MAHARISHI: If man is told he is divine, he is almighty, powerful - when he
> is
> trained to have his thought come to materialization without much effort -
> everyone would go for it. It's the education. It's the education.
>
> If a man is a criminal, that is the defective administration that he has
> been
> raised in. It's a defective administration, cruel administration, away
from
> the real potential of life, which is, in the will of God, evolution,
evolu-
> tion, evolution.
>
> KING: What part in all of this, Maharishi, does money play? There have
been
> stories that you're the - you're - that you have started what is a multi-
> billion-dollar business.
>
> MAHARISHI: I lack only $1 billion to make a world - better world.
>
> So, many months ago, I had publicized in the American papers that $1
billion
> endowment fund will raise enough - this Vedic pundits to fly about. We
want
> to engage 40,000 people on a permanent basis, and they will have enough
in-
> tense influence of coherence in the world consciousness. And anybody who
> wants to have peace - and everyone wants the peace - they were invited to
> donate.
>
> But I realized later that I was talking to the - this capitalist country.
> And capitalist country, in their own fog, unless they get something
> privately
> themselves, they'll not indulge into it. So money has become prominent in
a
> world of capitalism. That I realized when nobody sponsored for world
peace,
> and everybody wants world peace. But they would not...
>
> KING: Take part.
>
> MAHARISHI: ...part with some of their huge billions and millions in the
> bank.
> And so I said, all right.
>
> KING: Let me get a break and we'll come right back. We have two more seg-
> ments left with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. His original book, "Science of
Being
> and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation" - he's the founder of that
> movement - has just been republished and newly revised and updated. We'll
> be
> right back.
>
> (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
>
> KING: We're back with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He's coming to us from
> Vlodrop,
> Holland.
>
> What is Yogic Flying?
>
> MAHARISHI: Yogic Flying is that level of creative intelligence in the
self-
> referral consciousness that will materialize the intention. Whatever the
> intention, materialize the intention.
>
> And what is this thing? This is the same creative intelligence from
natural
> law that makes huge galactic universe float in the empty space. Every
> galaxy
> - huge weight galaxy - they are all flying in empty space. What is that?
> It
> is the creative intelligence at the level of pure intelligence, when pure
> intelligence, in its self-referral unified state, assumes the role of
fluc-
> tuations, of waves - like that, like that, like that.
>
> So the same law of nature is captured in the transcendental field of one's
> consciousness. And then, with the thought that I should be in the air,
the
> body lifts up, body lifts up.
>
> KING: Are you saying, then, that man is capable of everything - that man
> could fly if he had obtained this consciousness?
>
> MAHARISHI: That has been proved - how many times? - as many times as
people
> are flying. Four, five million people are flying in their private values.
>
> Now we want to have bigger groups. And bigger groups have been found to
> create that worldwide influence. They influence the whole world
conscious-
> ness, towards positivity, towards harmony, towards higher values of intel-
> ligence.
>
> That is why we have the proof - we have enough proof in the Vedic
literature
> and we have enough proof from the modern science that our teaching has
that
> influence which will create a better world, means a positive world, a
harmo-
> nious world.
>
> That is why we want to have a global administration of natural law.
>
> KING: Now...
>
> MAHARISHI: We will not disturb the existing administration by man-made
laws
> in any country. We are creating our own government, which is utilizing
> natu-
> ral law, which we have from modern science and which we have for effective
> Vedic Science. So we have enough ammunition to win the race.
>
> KING: How do they learn more about this? They could buy the book, and the
> revised update of it. Is there someplace they can contact direct to get
> more
> information?
>
> MAHARISHI: I have hundreds of centers for teaching Transcendental
Meditation
> everywhere.
>
> KING: Do you believe in a god?
>
> MAHARISHI: I believe in God. And I believe in the custody of God vested
in
> kings. And I'm very happy to have your name as King. Is it King?
>
> KING: I'm the King.
>
> MAHARISHI: I want to establish a government in every country that will
sup-
> port life in the country. This drama of four years, five years, change
the
> government, change the government, is only useful to the foreign powers.
> This thing, democracy - I used to say "Damn the democracy", because it's
not
> a stable government. It's only useful for foreign powers. It's a bad
thing
> for any nation to change the - A man comes for four years. Now he is the
> president. And then he goes to jail tomorrow - then he's jailed there.
>
> Such inadequacy in the field of administration must be - create a very
chao-
> tic population in every country. And that is the situation in the world.
>
> The whole field of education is very inadequate. It doesn't make the
human
> physiology totally function. The medicine - the field of medicine is very
> poisonous. It's full of inadequacies, and full of those - what we call,
all
> these negative things - the side effects of modern medicine...
>
> KING: Yeah, but...
>
> MAHARISHI: ...huge. I have in my room - I have in my room the whole
height
> of a floor full of about eight- or ten-thousand bad articles on modern
medi-
> cine. But, modern medicine continues, continues. Those who are producing
> medicine, they are only producing because they get money. It doesn't
matter
> if people die or suffer from any more diseases.
>
> And the governments support it. Your own government, in this, I was
> hearing,
> is subject to so much of corruption.
>
> All this is because life is not taught to the boys in the younger age.
Edu-
> cation is very, very inadequate.
>
> The whole drama of science is a big fraud, everywhere. Hiroshima was
> created
> in the name of science. Peace cannot be created in the name of science.
> No.
> Hiroshima can be created. Afghanistan can be created. And now Middle
East
> can be created. This is science. The whole thing is fraud. The whole
> field
> is sinful. And those who will get into that come to that realization.
Sin
> -
> killing is sin. Whosoever kills, it is sin, and the sinner will go to
hell.
>
> KING: We'll take a break and come back with our remaining moments with
> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, right after these words.
>
> (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
>
> KING: In our remaining moments with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, let's talk
about
> yourself.
>
> Do you have a family?
>
> MAHARISHI: The world is my family, you know? I count them ...
>
> KING: You have no children of your own?
>
> MAHARISHI: That is what a family means - all the children of the world.
>
> KING: I know, but I'm just asking if you have children from your loins.
>
> MAHARISHI: I am a single person. I'm a Purusha. I'm a - what you call
it -
> sanyasi, if you understand the word. I'm a monk, if you understand it...
>
> KING: You're a bachelor.
>
> MAHARISHI: ...monks.
>
> KING: Do you have special diets that you eat?
>
> MAHARISHI: I think that diet that I eat, everyone eats the same thing -
some
> rice, some dhal, some chapaties, something vegetable. But I like this or-
> ganic, organic. I recommend to people organic agriculture, Vedic organic
> agriculture. Huge amount of scientific research has shown that with the
Ve-
> dic hymns, with the Vedic melodies, the nutrients grow in the trees,
> very much in the fruits, in the crops, in the vegetables. So that is why,
> what I am promoting in the world.
>
> KING: How old are you?
>
> MAHARISHI: I have almost forgotten when I was born. I was told before.
>
> (LAUGHTER)
>
> MAHARISHI: I never look back - in my habit I never looked back. I never
> looked back.
>
> KING: Are you in good health?
>
> MAHARISHI: I am in fairly good health, yes, yes, fairly good health.
>
> KING: Do you go to doctors?
>
> MAHARISHI: The doctors come to me even before calling them. They like to
> see
> me year after year, the same way, like that, like that.
>
> But the main thing is not so important what I am. What is important is my
> program for the world, that the world will be a better world. It will be
> free from sins. Governments will be preventive administrations in the
> world.
> That is important. I'm not important for the world. I'm here for some
> time,
> gone. And everyone would finish the whole story. But I have promoted a
> program which is practical, positive, and simple for every individual...
>
> KING: Where...
>
> MAHARISHI: ...and for every nation.
>
> KING: ...where did you learn it?
>
> MAHARISHI: I learned it from my master. I address him as His Divinity,
> Swami
> Brahmananda Saraswati, in the Himalayas in India. And that I hold to be
the
> tradition of Vedic masters.
>
> And that I came to teach in the world, and I felt successful results on
the
> individual, and now I am going to have a successful result on the basis of
> nations - nations. National governments everywhere, whatever they are
now,
> I
> think they are groping in darkness. And I have the lamp. I put the lamp,
> and the light from the lamp will eliminate all their darknesses.
>
> My nature is not to fight. I give the message, I give the experience, and
> people take it, and more people take it.
>
> And now, I'll have a government. I've created a government, and created
the
> head of this government - a great scientist, Dr. Nader Raja Raam. He is
> M.D., Ph.D. He has researched in the human physiology that the whole
human
> physiology is the expression of the underlying field of consciousness, the
> same way as physics has discovered self-referral quantum field as the
field
> of consciousness - self-referral.
>
> On that basis of the realization or the discovery of the ultimate field,
I'm
> going to create a world of that profundity of perfection which belongs to
> the
> perfection of the government of nature.
>
> KING: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from Vlodrop, Holland. His book has been
newly
> revised and updated - the version of the original book of many years ago -
> "Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation."
>
> Optimistic? You bet.
>
> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Good night.
>
>
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> Principle transcriber:
> Michael Dean Goodman
> Governor
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