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1957 Maharishi's Year of Transcendental Meditation: In the memory of Shri Guru Dev, His Divinity Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, Jagatguru
Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, celebrating the conference of Spiritual
Luminaries of India, Maharishi inaugurates the Spiritual Regeneration
Movement on 31 December in Madras, India, to spiritually regenerate
the world.
1958 Maharishi's Year of Spiritual Regeneration Movement: Maharishi begins his first world tour to teach Transcendental Meditation and
to carry the beacon light of the Himalayas to all mankind.
1959 Maharishi's Year of Global Awakening: Maharishi establishes Transcendental Meditation
throughout the United States and England and promises: 'I
will fill the world with the light of knowledge and create Heaven on
Earth.'
1960 Maharishi's Year of Cosmic Consciousness: Maharishi explains the development of Cosmic Consciousness rising through
the daily practice of Transcendental Meditation. • In London at
Caxton Hall, Maharishi inaugurates his 'Three-Year Plan' (1960–1962),
the first systematic plan in the history of the world to enlighten the
whole mankind. (By the year 2003, over 5 million people throughout the
world have learnt the Transcendental Meditation Programme.)
1961 Maharishi's Year of Teacher Training: Maharishi 'multiplies himself' and conducts the first International Transcendental
Meditation Teacher Training Course in Ram Nagar, Rishikesh, India. •
Maharishi conducts the First World Assembly of the Spiritual Regeneration
Movement in London. 5,000 attend the open session in the famous Royal
Albert Hall.
1962 Maharishi's Year of Theory of the Absolute: Maharishi expounds to the scientists
in New York his 'Theory of the Absolute' to enrich all fields of relative
existence, and con-tinues to train teachers of Transcendental Meditation
in different countries, using audio and video technology.
1963 Maharishi's Year of the Science of Being and Art of Living: Maharishi gives to the world his first book,
The Science of Being and Art of Living.
1964 Maharishi's Year of God Consciousness: In response to the growing experiences of higher states of consciousness,
Maharishi explains experiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms
of Transcendental Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, and God Consciousness.
1965 Maharishi's Year of Bhagavad-Gita: Maharishi explains experiences of Transcendental Meditation in terms of the
Vedic Principle of Action—Nishkama karma yoga—Yogasthah
kuru karmani: Established in Being, perform action. • Maharishi
completes his commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita, the first six chapters.
1966 Maharishi's Year of Academy of Meditation: Maharishi inaugurates the first International Academy of Meditation in Shankaracharya
Nagar, Rishikesh, India.
1967 Maharishi's Year of Unity Consciousness: Maharishi explains the
nature of Unity Consciousness, the pinnacle of human evolution, and
inaugurates the first European Meditation Academy in Bremen, Germany.
1968 Maharishi's Year of Students: The Students International Meditation Society is founded in many countries.
1969 Maharishi's Year of Supreme Knowledge: Maharishi comments on the Brahm Sutra, the textbook of Vedant—Unity Consciousness.
1970 Maharishi's Year of Scientific Research: The first scientific research on Transcendental Meditation is published. (In
the years which follow, more than 600 scientific research studies are
conducted at over 200 independent universities and research institutes
in 30 countries, validating the profound benefits of Maharishi's Transcendental
Meditation Programme for the individual and for every area of society,
including health, education, business, industry, rehabilitation, defence,
agriculture, and government.)
1971 Maharishi's Year of Science of Creative Intelligence: Maharishi formulates the Science of Creative Intelligence—the Science of Consciousness—and
establishes Maharishi International University (MIU) in the United
States, to serve as a model of higher education in the world.
1972 Maharishi's Year of the World Plan: Maharishi trains 2,000 teachers of his Science of Creative Intelligence in
La Antilla, Spain (by the year 2004, over 40,000) and inaugurates the
World Plan to solve the age-old problems of mankind in this generation.
1973 Maharishi's Year of Action for the World Plan: With the 2,000 newly trained teachers of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi
plans to establish 2,000 World Plan Centres around the world to offer
courses in Transcendental Meditation and the Science of Creative Intelligence.
1974 Maharishi's Year of Achievement of the World Plan: The Maharishi Effect is discovered: one per cent of the
population of any city practising Transcendental Meditation results
in an overall increase of positive trends in society. This Maharishi
Effect, named by scientists in honour of Maharishi who first predicted
it, establishes a new formula for the creation of an ideal society.
• Maharishi International University (MIU) is established in Fairfield,
Iowa, USA.
1975 Maharishi's Year of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment: 'Through the window of science, we see the
Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.'—Maharishi • Maharishi embarks
on a global tour to inaugurate the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment
on all five continents—for Asia in India, New Delhi, Vigyan Bhavan
Hall; for Europe in England, London, Royal
Albert Hall; for North America in Canada, Ottawa, Château
Laurier; for South America in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cultural Centre
of San Martin; and for Africa in Ivory Coast, Abidjan, Palais des Congrès
Houphouet Boigny • Maharishi establishes MERU—Maharishi European
Research University—in Switzerland. This global inauguration brings
the dawn of new knowledge. Maharishi revives the total theoretical and
practical knowledge of Yoga after thousands of years, and in Interlaken,
Switzerland, with hundreds of course participants, in more than twenty
hotels around the lake, Maharishi holds six-month courses to enliven
consciousness as 'a field of all possibilities'.
1976 Maharishi's Year of Government: Maharishi inaugurates the World Government of the Age of Enlightenment with
sovereignty in the domain of consciousness and authority in the invincible
power of Natural Law, to purify world consciousness and guide the destiny
of mankind. • Maharishi introduces the TM-Sidhi Programme including
Yogic Flying to accelerate the evolution of the individual to enlightenment
and to purify world consciousness. (By the year 2004, more than 200,000
people around the world have learnt Maharishi's TM-Sidhi Programme.)
• Maharishi creates four annual seasonal Festivals of the Age of
Enlightenment to set each season in the tempo of success for noble aspirations
and higher achievements.
1977 Maharishi's Year of Ideal Society: Maharishi inaugurates his Ideal Society Campaign by sending Yogic Flyers to
108 countries. Wherever they go the police take the credit for lowering
the crime rate. With this global success, Maharishi formulates his Absolute
Theories of Government, Education, Health, Defence, Economy, Management,
and Law and Order to raise every area of life to perfection.
1978 Maharishi's Year of Invincibility to Every Nation: Scientists discover the Extended Maharishi Effect whereby just the square
root of one per cent of the population practising Maharishi's Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme is sufficient to create coherence
in collective consciousness. Maharishi tests this formula by sending
groups of Yogic Flyers to the most
troubled spots on earth. Scientific research records success.
1979 Maharishi's Year of All Possibilities: Maharishi proclaims 'all possibilities for mankind' through his science of
consciousness and designs the Global Super Radiance programme, in order
to maximize the influence of Sattwa (coherence) in the
family of nations. • The first World Peace Assembly with several
thousand in attendance convenes in Amherst, USA, to create coherence
in world consciousness.
1980 Maharishi's Year of Pure Knowledge, the Veda: Maharishi brings to light his timeless
commentary of Rk Veda, the Apaurusheya Bhashya, and introduces the principles of Ayur-Veda—the Science of Life—as
the total knowledge of perfect health in the direction of immortality.
1981 Maharishi's Year of Vedic Science: Maharishi organizes the centuries-old scattered Vedic Literature as a complete
literature of a perfect science—Maharishi's Vedic Science and
Technology—the Science and Technology of Consciousness. •
Maharishi conducts the First International Vedic Science Course in New
Delhi, and through the quiet performance of the TM-Sidhi Programme by
3,000 students of his Vedic Science, calms down the growing violent
tendencies in India, demonstrating the rise of Sattwa (coherence).
1982 Maharishi's Year of Natural Law: Maharishi establishes the Vedic Principles and Programmes for bringing life
in accord with Natural Law—the Will of God. • Maharishi inaugurates
Maharishi University of Natural Law in England and 1,008 Colleges of
Natural Law for the whole world. • Maharishi celebrates the Silver
Jubilee of his worldwide Transcendental Meditation Movement.
1983 Maharishi's Year of the Unified Field: Maharishi brings to light the Unified
Field Theories of modern Physics with reference to the self-referral
field of Transcendental Consciousness, the field of pure knowledge.
• Maharishi celebrates the Rising Sunshine of the Age of Enlightenment
for the whole world and tours five continents, blessing many nations:
in Africa—Kenya, Ivory Coast, Zambia, and The Gambia; In Europe—Italy,
Sweden, Norway, Spain, Yugoslavia, Magyarország (Hungary), Czechoslovakia, Greece, France,
Holland, Finland, England, and Ireland; in South America—Brazil,
Colombia, and Bolivia; in North America—the United States. •
Maharishi gives the world its 'First Taste of Utopia' through the first
assembly of 7,000 Yogic Flyers gathered for three weeks at Maharishi
International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, who create the Global
Maharishi Effect.
1984 Maharishi's Year of Unified Field-Based Civilization: Maharishi begins to establish the irreversibility of the Global Maharishi
Effect by holding large World Peace Assemblies in different countries.
1985 Maharishi's Year of Unified Field-Based Education: Maharishi formulates a perfect system of Vedic Education based on consciousness.
• Maharishi creates Veda-Leela, the play of the Veda, which narrates
and displays the mechanics of creation.
1986 Maharishi's Year of Perfect Health: Maharishi implements his World Plan for Perfect Health to create a disease-free
society and bring self-sufficiency in health care to every nation.
1987 Maharishi's Year of World Peace: Maharishi presents to the world his Programme to Create World Peace through
the mechanics of the TM-Sidhi Yogic Flying Programme. • Maharishi
presents to the world Gandharva Veda music for creating balance in Nature.
1988 Maharishi's Year of Achieving World Peace: Maharishi inaugurates his Master Plan to Create Heaven on Earth for the reconstruction
of the whole world—inner and outer. • Warring tendencies
are transformed into friendliness—the superpowers shake hands.
1989 Maharishi's Year of Heaven on Earth: Maharishi implements his Master Plan.
• The unifying quality characterizes world consciousness as evidenced
by the fall of the Berlin wall.
1990 Maharishi's Year of Alliance with Nature's Government: Maharishi offers Alliance with Nature's Government to every nation. •
Maharishi introduces the knowledge of Natural Law for perfection in
every profession to create 'Heaven Builders'.
1991 Maharishi's Year of Support of Nature's Government: Maharishi invites all governments to align themselves with the Constitution
of the Universe to make their administrations as effective as the Government
of Nature.
1992 Maharishi's Year of The Constitution of The Universe: Maharishi brings to light the Constitution of the Universe, which governs
the infinite diversity of the universe with perfect order so that the
nourishing power of Natural Law will support and enrich every national
administration in our world family. • Maharishi's Supreme Political
Science for problem-free government inspires the formation of the Natural
Law Party. • Between 1991–1992, two hundred Maharishi Vidya Mandir
Schools, with over 100,000 students, are established in India.
1993 Maharishi's Year of Administration through Natural Law—Ram Raj: Maharishi launches a programme for Natural
Law-Based Administration to bring the nourishing influence of the Constitution
of the Universe to every government. • Four thousand Yogic Flyers
from sixty-four countries create coherence in Washington, DC—the
crime rate decreases twenty-nine per cent. • Maharishi Institude
of Management, with ten branches in India, offers MBA and computer science
courses in the light of Maharishi's Vedic Management.
1994 Maharishi's Year of Discovery of Veda in Human Physiology: Maharishi heralds the dawn of Vedic Civilization
based on the discovery of Veda in human physiology, which establishes
the grand unity of all sciences and all religions. • Maharishi
offers to create a PREVENTION WING in every military to disallow the
birth of an enemy.
1995 Maharishi's Year of Silence: Maharishi Vedic University—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwa-Vidyalaya—is
established in the State of Madhya Pradesh, India. • Maharishi
University of Management is established in the United States, Japan,
Holland, and Russia. • Maharishi inaugurates Maharishi Medical
Colleges and Universities around the world to train doctors in his Vedic
Approach to Health.
1996 Maharishi's Year of Awakening: All Maharishi Universities teach one basic subject—Atma, the Self, consciousness—and
this is the dawn of a new awakening in the world—Total Knowledge
for higher consciousness.
1997 Maharishi's Year of Global Administration through Natural Law: Having introduced the knowledge of the Constitution of the Universe in 1992,
Maharishi establishes the practical programmes to actualize ideal administration
in the world through the Constitution of the Universe. Maharishi inaugurates
Global Administration through Natural Law with twelve Time-Zone Capitals
to establish problem-free administration that mirrors administration
through Natural Law, which governs the infinite diversity of the universe
with perfect order. • Maharishi's theme of problem-free administration
based on the total knowledge of Natural Law—Veda—the Constitution
of the Universe, the field of total knowledge, is Vedic Knowledge made
available to everyone through Maharishi's Vedic Education; Vedic Health
Care; Vedic Administration; Vedic Economy; Vedic Management; Vedic Defence;
Vedic Law, Justice, and Rehabilitation; Vedic Architecture; and Vedic
Agriculture.
1998 Maharishi's Second Year of Global Administration through Natural Law: To facilitate global administration,
Maharishi establishes a global network of eight satellites broadcasting
in eighteen languages. Maharishi Channel—Maharishi Veda Vision—and
Maharishi Open University bring Maharishi's Vedic Wisdom to homes on
every continent.
1999 Maharishi's Third Year of Global Administration through Natural Law: Maharishi designs the Perfect Man Course
to raise the individual to higher levels of evolution in the direction
of perfection, on the basis of the practical knowledge of total Natural
Law—the knowledge of his own Self—Atma—Veda—the
Constitution of the Universe—the supreme administering intelligence
of the universe.
2000 Maharishi's Fourth Year of Global Administration through Natural Law: Maharishi inaugurates his Global Country
of World Peace to create an indomitable influence of non-violence in
world consciousness, and crowns Professor Tony Nader, MD, PhD, as His
Majesty Raja Raam, First Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World
Peace, for his historic discovery of Veda in human physiology for which
he was weighed in gold (1998). • His Majesty Raja Raam declares
Veda to be the Constitution of his Global Country of World Peace and
appoints forty Ministers to be guided by the forty qualities of Cosmic
Intelligence expressed in the Vedic Literature. • Maharishi establishes
his Programme to Eliminate Poverty in the world through the development
of unused agricultural lands, using Vedic Organic Agriculture principles
and practices. • Maharishi celebrates Swarn-Jayanti, the Golden Jubilee, of Shri Guru Deva, His
Divinity Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the most illustrious in the galaxy
of Jagatguru Shankaracharyas of India, through whose divine grace the
knowledge for living perfection in life is now available to all mankind.
2001 Maharishi's Year of Global Country of World Peace: Maharishi blesses the largest gathering of humanity in history—the Maha
Kumbha Mela, Prayag, India—through the delegation of His Majesty
Raja Raam and his forty Ministers. • Maharishi's global initiative
for permanent world peace is launched
in response to the outburst of terrorism in the USA. • Programmes
are designed to create a permanent influence of world peace from one
country—India—through the performance of Yoga, Yagya (Graha Shanti and
Devi Aradhana) by 40,000 Vedic Pandits on the Ganges banks. • The
World Federation of Tribal Kings is formed to awaken the parental role
of all the traditional leaders of society to maintain peace in their
areas of influence.
2002 Maharishi's Year of Raam Mudra: In order to create a balanced world
economy, His Majesty Raja Raam names the year 2002 as Maharishi's Year
of Raam Mudra and establishes the Central Bank of the Global Country
of World Peace in Maharishi's Vedic City, USA. • The Global Central
Bank establishes Raam Bank in Maharishi Vedic City, and Raam Mudra starts
its programme to alleviate poverty in the world. • Maharishi conducts
special one-month Enlightenment Conferences and designs a programme
to construct 3,000 Peace Palaces to provide every major city in the
world with a powerful influence of coherence and harmony. •Maharishi
offers profound knowledge and prevention-oriented solutions to the world
through a continuum of weekly global press conferences, broadcast live
via satellite, internet webcast, and teleconference (visit www.mou.org
or www.globalcountry.org). • Maharishi launches his Global Health
Programme—a computerized programme based on Maharishi's Vedic
Medicine for prevention, cure, and the creation of a disease-free society.
2003 Maharishi's Year of Ideal Government—Ram Raj: Maharishi welcomes every government
to contract with the Global Country of World Peace to create prevention-oriented
problem-free administration • Maharishi ensures achievement of
the long sought goal of mankind—permanent world peace—through
the creation of 3,000 Peace Palaces in the largest cities of the world,
and establishment of the largest group of Vedic Pandits in India, 'permeating
all time and all space values with harmony, with eveness of higher intelligence' through recitation of the Veda and programmes of Vedic Yagya
and Graha Shanti. • The Maharishi
World Peace Trust of Germany is founded to begin construction of Peace
Palaces in the sixty largest cities of Germany and in the largest cities
of Europe. • Maharishi inaugurates the Parliament of World Peace
to raise world consciousness to a high degree of coherence for all nations
to enjoy permanent peace. • On the auspicious Guru Purnima Day,
13 July 2003, Maharishi offers to every government to train their administrators
to engage in their administrative policies and programmes the intelligence
and energy of total Natural Law—the Light of God—the Will
of God—which governs the universe with perfect order. Maharishi
explains that this training of administrators, on one hand, will make
the process of administration the steps of evolution for the administrator,
and, on the other hand, will render administration prevention-oriented
and free from problems, and give it the character of 'automation in
administration'.
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