Maharishi Mahesh Yogi consciousness-based
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Experiences
CANADA
Since I have been taking the course my mind is more clear, like a clean or open window. Some of my thoughts happen before I can verbalize them or take action to make them happen. Thank goodness they are thoughts that support Mother Nature and the Natural Law of the Universe.

Many thanks from my heart to Maharishi and all the teachers and the many people who made this Course happen, also thanks to all of the participants of the Course. I know the group together has made this Course strong for the whole universe.
COLOMBIA

It has been a joy to see how the interest of the students participating in the Course for Total Knowledge grew day by day, and how their devotion for the knowledge increased with each lesson. They were always eager to come to class—even to leave work earlier—and rush to take a seat in the front row. They are looking forward to taking the next course.

The value of this beautiful knowledge has sunk deep in their hearts and they have reaffirmed their conviction that the coherence created through group programs is the only hope for our country. A large percentage of them want to take the TM-Sidhi course.

We now have a group of Sidhas in Bogota meeting every morning at 5:30 to do their program before going to work, and also at the same time on weekends so they can be back home before their children get up. Our aim is to create the group of 2000 flyers for Colombia. We could say that their strong desire for coherence and peace in our country and their group program has had some effect.

It has been an honor to contribute towards having such a large group of students in Colombia. My life has been enriched with this beautiful Course.


I have found more nature support to materialize any desire and find easier solutions to problems after the Total Knowledge Course. I understand better on a mental level many of nature’s phenomena, and experience expansion of the intellect. I feel more compassion and love and union with other beings.

My experience as Local Coordinator for Maharishi Open University was that of experiencing in myself and in the Course participants a great enlivenment of our consciousness. We felt that we really were cosmic. We also experienced growing waves of love.

The Course on Total Knowledge was a transforming experience for all those who took it. It enlivened the qualities of order, bliss, wisdom and peace in all the students. The proof of the success of the course is that no one wanted to miss a single lesson, and many requested to review lessons they have already seen. The increase in the qualities of self-assuredness, confidence, eloquence, and power to fulfill their desires was seen in all the students. As a result of the understanding of the profound effects of creating coherence produced by the course, a daily group practice of the TM-Sidhi program was started soon after the beginning of the course and local coherence times for Transcendental Meditation and the practice of the TM-Sidhi program were established.

Many participants experienced profound changes in their relatives, even if they were not Meditators, and many of these have now come to start Transcendental Meditation. On the city level, soon after the course was started, a 50% reduction in homicides was announced in our city, reflecting the effects of growing coherence and the ability of the press to recognize good, uplifting news. There is no doubt that this course has produced profound and permanent changes in all those who have taken it. And most importantly its great practical benefit has been reported by all—the removal of obstacles in their lives, and an ever-increasing ability to fulfill their desires.


The Course on Total Knowledge gives us knowledge at all levels: intellectual, rational, emotional, etc., but what is most important is that we experience its effects in our own lives. For me it was a valuable and meaningful experience, due to the changes I saw in my life. I would especially like to highlight the feelings of self-confidence and security in fulfilling my daily activities, the smooth flow of my professional activities, and the greater ease and achievements I have had in my creative activity.

I had the experience with this course of growing in the ability of spontaneously fulfilling my desires. I have experienced what Total Knowledge is—the Unified Field. I had a completely different perception of what the Vedic Literature really was. I learned and experienced that we are cosmic beings.

This has undoubtedly been one of the most special and satisfying experiences I have had, through the teaching methodology used during the course. The knowledge always kept me alert and desirous to take the next lesson. I never even thought of missing a class. By the end of the course I have understood much more profoundly the Transcendental Meditation technique, and this has been accompanied by a fervent desire to gain higher states of consciousness.

With the knowledge acquired and the development of my consciousness through this course, I have experienced all the real aspects of invincibility. I have been able to change my habits for the better and I feel a great happiness.

I am so happy to know that which I had always dreamed, and could not believe, but which in truth is the reality of life—that the human being can enjoy perfection in life.

This course fulfilled all the expectations I had. I understood that we are cosmic. I understood the phenomenon of Yogic Flying. I understood the importance of a Group for a Government.

In completing the Total Knowledge Course, I understood the great potential that I possess to have access to Total Knowledge. I understood clearly the awakening created in the process of gaining Total Knowledge in my being. I deepened my understanding of the relationship between unity and diversity, between the whole and the parts, which at the same time are totality in itself, and now through my intellect I can have an understanding and knowledge of the world it is constantly recreating.
GUADELOUPE

Great!! Unbelievable!! Stupendous!! Simply wonderful!! Everyone was very impressed with the first lesson of the course and the scope of the entire course. We are all very fortunate just to be alive at this time when Total Knowledge is made available in such a simple and easy way. A “festival of knowledge” has started and there will be no end to it. Thank you.


From the very first lessons of the course, I noticed an increased development of my conscious mind and self. I am discovering my Self. My outlook on nature and on people around me is different; I am drawn to the world. I feel a refinement of my senses and of my intuition that I have not experienced in eight years of meditation.

It is as if all the knowledge contained in this Total Knowledge course had put on a light in my brain and into my heart. I feel more love and compassion, and in each experience during activity, I look for the hidden knowledge behind, as I feel more than ever the support of Nature. The purpose of existence seems so clear, so great, and at the same time, so close at hand that it is a great joy just to be alive. After having heard and experienced this Reality, life can never be the same.

On the basis of the intellectual understanding from the Total Knowledge Course, the purpose in life is different. The knowledge received triggers something, and one rediscovers by oneself that one is an actor in the process of gaining knowledge. I felt tremendous awakening of my consciousness and great support of nature in activity. There is a flow in life, and one feels one knows and understands what it’s all about. I feel much more free now. I know where lies the solution to the problems of society, and in reality I realize there is no problem; it’s all in our mind. This education has nothing to do with ordinary education, which is just the filling up of the mind without the awakening of consciousness.

MARTINIQUE

We received with great enthusiasm the news of the launching of Maharishi Open University last year. What a great joy now, to be able to receive Total Knowledge in the comfort of our home.

Maharishi taught us in the past that knowledge is inside, structured in our consciousness. We close our eyes, we experience infinite unbounded consciousness. Now we have just to open our eyes and we have Total Knowledge also outside in the beautiful lessons of Maharishi Open University.

This is really 200% of fullness of Knowledge: fullness of Knowledge inside, fullness of Knowledge outside. This is a huge achievement for the realization of Heaven on Earth, a wonderful promise for all mankind.

During this first Certificate of Total Knowledge course, we experienced a deep inner awakening, an expansion of the intellect, and a greater sensibility to live in harmony with the Laws of Nature. We felt also lot of support of Nature in our profession and our daily activities.

We were waiting for this knowledge for such a long time. We enjoyed every lesson. Thanks to the sweet and dedicated teachers of Maharishi Open University. Thanks to the administration and to the technical team who made possible the organization and the transmission of this wonderful Course. Thanks to Maharishi for giving us the Highest Knowledge ever given by a university on earth.

 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

I want to thank you for Maharishi Open University. The course on Total Knowledge has brought very sweet and profound experiences into my life. Each lesson is very enjoyable, and learning about Total Knowledge has given a new smoothness and efficiency to my daily activity.

I look forward to the Total Knowledge lessons very much. I enjoy the routine of the lessons and delight in each part. I appreciate taking the lessons with a group of fellow course participants. We have a special group—lots of smiles and occasional ripples of laughter. I enjoy the course material. It is well-organized and clear, with lots of repetition. I admire the faculty that teach the courses very much, each one radiating wholeness and perfection blended with their own special qualities—organizing power, beauty, sincerity, intelligence, wit, etc. Please convey my appreciation for all that they are doing.

I am enjoying the benefits of Total Knowledge in my daily life. My activity flows smoothly from one thing to another in an efficient manner, reminding me of the principle of least action. I accomplish more with less effort. My activities are more expansive and directed to the higher Self, with less maintaining of the small self. I find that I make time to do activities that strengthen the development of consciousness.


Simply a note to say how very much I am enjoying participating in Maharishi Open University. I am a relatively new Meditator, so this course has been invaluable in giving me a systematic presentation of the knowledge that accompanies the experience of transcending.

The Total Knowledge course is fabulous! What a treasure it has turned out to be. It is so enlivening. Traditionally when I go to some class, the first 20 minutes or so are the most valuable because I am most awake. Then as the class continues, my attention begins to falter, the mind wanders, my back gets tired and more and more knowledge is missed. But with the Total Knowledge course it’s just the opposite. As each new point unfolds and each minute passes I become more awake, more tuned in, more comfortable and more excited and happy. Thanks for such a great effort.

I am having more and more often “attacks” of bliss! Sometimes it’s just feeling quiet and expanded and more often, on a less subtle level, feeling playful and mischievous, which I have to control, as it would not befit a middle aged person to frolic in the snow or do cartwheels (which my joints do not allow me anyhow), or laugh out loud at nothing at all.

I belong to those lucky ones who could start the Total Knowledge course in December 1998. After my Wednesday class I can hardly wait till the next Monday because I just cannot get enough of what you teach. I have been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for one year, which has a large effect over my life with the Total Knowledge course. My health improved, my decisions became better and my stress level got to a much lower level. Finally I have found myself. My philosophy of life is now based on the commanding power of Natural Law that was always so close to me. The most amazing thing is that all of these ideas can be proven scientifically, which is more than great.

After I started practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique and attending the Total Knowledge course I quickly recognized the huge potential of my brain and the power of larger groups of people meditating together. I experienced a sudden leap of improvements in the quality of my life. Stress almost disappeared and I can think much more clearly even in situations where I panicked before. Even luck seems to join me more often.

Sometimes I feel like a wild elephant that has been put between two domesticated ones to learn the words of Natural Law. As time goes by the undomesticated elephant becomes tamer and tamer until it learns everything it has to know. I can hardly wait for the time when I will know and deeply understand Natural Law.

Thank you for showing the way we should live our life and for showing us the way to utilize the infinite potential of our brain.


Everyone keeps remarking that Maharishi Open University is impressive, blissful, transforming, a promise fulfilled for fast progress to enlightenment.

It was like being spoon fed heaping helpings of divine nectar. Our whole family has been really enjoying the lessons.

I have been studying in Maharishi Open University for the last three months. The lessons have helped me a lot in my professional life as a computer programmer and software company manager. I recently hired a new employee and I had to teach her many complicated subjects such as computerized measurements, automatic control system, etc. I found that I could teach all these subjects in methods similar to those used by the Maharishi Open University faculty. For example, I explained the subject of feedback control systems using the terms of Rishi, Devata, and Chhandas, and found that it was easier and more general to explain it in these terms rather then the terms usually used in electronics.
#I would like to express my appreciation and gratitude to Maharishi for sharing his deep knowledge of Vedic Science. It is a great joy, especially for me as an Iranian Muslim woman growing up in a very rich ancient culture, and keenly interested in Persian literature, to have the opportunity to receive Vedic knowledge as well as my own traditional heritage.

Maharishi Open University is amazing. Something so powerful is going on. On one level, it’s a profound expression of “what you put your attention on grows stronger in your life”. But it’s clearly a much deeper value than we’ve experienced. Because what we are putting our attention on is our own consciousness and its self-referral mechanics of creation. The effect on our own lives is a constant whirlpool of transformation. My own experience is one of increased liveliness of consciousness identifying more with the eternal, non-changing value of life rather than the surface values. Also during the actual lessons, the sweetest feeling of “I am absolutely doing the right thing for myself, my family and the world.”

I am writing to tell you my experience following the viewing of the first lesson of Maharishi Open University. I watched the lesson on Wednesday, December 4th. The next morning I awoke feeling the organizing power of pure knowledge surging through my physiology. It was as if I had been given a vitamin, essential for the full blossoming of my thinking and action—Vitamin TK [Total Knowledge]. Prior to this time, I had been wishing for more efficiency in activity so that I could accomplish my many aspirations in my profession and for my family. I feel the first course of Maharishi Open University is bringing the fulfillment of this wish and of wishes I have not even yet imagined. Thank you all for organizing this beautiful opportunity for all of us to rise to increasing perfection on all levels of our life.

I would like to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to Maharishi and the Staff of Maharishi Open University for the opportunity to learn Transcendental Meditation and to receive the Course on Total Knowledge. I have been practicing Transcendental Meditation for only 90 days before starting the course, and in that brief time I have experienced profound changes in my consciousness and in the quality of my life that outstrips all prior experience.

I have been consciously working on myself for over 25 years, trying to improve my consciousness and to find bliss by all means I could discover. Unfortunately, these efforts always fell short, leaving me with the same gnawing feeling of incompleteness and separation from my Self and from the universe.

Only now, through the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the Course in Total Knowledge, am I experiencing the Peace and Inner Knowing that I have sought all these years!


What a wonderful synthesis of knowledge and experience! Viewing the lessons brings such a full, integrated experience. It truly is the experience of Total Knowledge. It’s so obvious, as you say, that never in the history of mankind has the knowledge been brought out so perfectly, so comprehensively, for sure embodying all the 40 qualities of Total Knowledge in itself. I don’t want to miss one second of it. Each lesson is a basking in bliss.

I feel unexpectedly drawn into each lesson. I find myself very alert and effortlessly keeping my attention with the broadcast. As I follow along, a soft joyfulness dawns inside and carries over after the lesson. The rich joyfulness has been permeating my days and nights. It is accompanied by a feeling of easiness and relaxation—the kind that comes after completing a job well done.

Thank you for giving us Total Knowledge in Maharishi Open University. During the presentations, I am finding the knowledge within my own Self, within the innermost level of my own consciousness. The Knowledge is very easy to understand and it is very uplifting and blissful.

The experience of taking the class on Total Knowledge is changing my life. A sense of calmness and joy seems to follow me around in my day to day tasks.

I have completed lesson 38 of the Total Knowledge course. I found all lessons to be inspiring, informative, highly logical (to the modern mind), and sweet. The professors have explained the knowledge in a very beautiful way. I have read nearly all of Maharishi’s books, but without this course and the manner in which the professors have explained each lesson I was not able to understand the deep knowledge that is expressed in those books, and what that knowledge means to life. So in this sense I found this course to be complete in explaining the value of Veda and the Vedic Literature, and its relationship to the human physiology and the brain. In the context of this course, now I am able to understand the Vedic Literature more completely.

For me personally the course was indispensable. It explained to me the value of silence and dynamism in our daily activities, and how it can bring fulfillment to me, to every individual, to the nation, and to the world.

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