Maharishi Mahesh Yogi consciousness-based
Maharishi Open University
Broadcast Globally by Satellite and Internet
Experiences
AUSTRIA
In the morning, while going to the Maharishi Open University Course location, I have the impression that this knowledge is too abstract and too far from our practical life. But then when I’m in the Course, again and again I’m pleased with the infinite possibilities, which open themselves uninterruptedly.

There is so much lack in so many areas in the world today. The knowledge of basic connections is simply lost. I’m happy and grateful that now there is the possibility for all people to get this complete knowledge in a simple way via satellite in one’s own home.
BELGIUM

Thank you very much for your great efforts. Everybody is very pleased with the course, and feel that they are participating in a very profound event.


From the depth of our hearts, it’s a joy for us to thank you, Maharishi, for giving us your beautiful Inaugural lecture on Total Knowledge. We gathered here in our home in Belgium with 11 people, and every one of us really experienced what you promised us, that we would feel right from the beginning: “Yes, this is an opening for Total Knowledge”.

BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA

All of the students are very happy and inspired with the Total Knowledge course. We come to do group program and watch the lessons together. We feel very connected to our whole international family. This is very necessary for our country. This knowledge is the only solution to the deep problems of our country. We want to express our deep gratitude to Maharishi and our sincere thanks to all the teachers and organizers for making it possible for us to be a part of this historic first course of Maharishi Open University.
BULGARIA

I am really happy to express my appreciation to everyone there at Maharishi Open University, for everything you have done in order to make this precious knowledge—Total Knowledge—available to all of us here in Bulgaria. Moreover, it is difficult to express how much I appreciate to be one of all those fortunate ones who have been granted the privilege to tap this wisdom of Total Knowledge directly from the source. But most of all, I would like to express my gratitude and admiration to Maharishi himself, for giving the world a chance to realize that there is a way, a practical way, to make our life on this planet only better and better. The only thing needed is just to get on the train. All of our students share these warm feelings and gratitude with me.
CROATIA

With the help of this course on Total Knowledge I had realized on the intellectual level and on the level of experience what Aham Brahmasmi means: “I am Totality.” I had the feeling that everything is just my Self. And also I became aware that my thoughts, speech and actions are influencing the whole universe and due to that I have a feeling of more and more responsibility for everything that I think, say and do.

Also I realized that if I am happy but if other people are not then my happiness is not full, complete. So as a result of this course I feel that not only I should enjoy this supreme knowledge, but everyone should enjoy this beautiful and complete knowledge and have perfection in life.

I would like to say thank you so much for this supreme knowledge for creating perfection in my life and in the life of everyone.


After the final celebration at the last lesson of this course on Total Knowledge we all want to say thank you to Maharishi and to all of the Professors and Staff of Maharishi Open University for making this very wonderful course. We are all so much enjoying and feeling great upliftment as a result of the course.
CZECH REPUBLIC

We want to thank you for your great and perfect job in broadcasting Maharishi’s knowledge to the whole world. Every lesson is so rich and inspiring. We all are looking forward the next lesson and we cannot wait to have more and more knowledge. It is so fulfilling and enriching.

This knowledge has great power to create transformation. Each of us experiences some good changes in their lives. People say they are happier and more effective in activity. And their activity is done not through hard work but very frequently the results come through mere desiring.

It is such a great opportunity for the whole mankind now with Maharishi’s offer of Total Knowledge. And the waves of bliss are bigger and bigger.


I am writing to express my gratitude to Maharishi and all of you who are bringing this precious knowledge to us through Maharishi Open University. It is a joy and privilege to be receiving the Total Knowledge course in the comfort of my home.

This Total Knowledge course through Maharishi Open University is more blissful and enjoyable and rewarding than I ever imagined. Long distance learning has no boundaries to the level of experience we can have. This is so beautiful. Thank you all.

The lessons are fantastic-such a beautiful feeling of dignity, beauty and harmony!
ESTONIA

From all our hearts we Estonian MOU students are most grateful to Maharishi and to all faculty for such profound, simple to grasp and beautiful lectures of the Certificate of Total Knowledge Course. This course was a great upliftment to every individual and to our country as a whole. All the students noted many positive changes in their lives: better health, more support of nature in everyday life, better relationships with their families and friends.

In our country relationships between Estonian and Russian communities became more tolerant and friendly. There is a tendency for better understanding of each other.

14 students of the Certificate of Total Knowledge Course are taking at the very moment the TM-Sidhi course. A lot of students are looking forward to joining the Creating a Perfect Man Course.
FINLAND

I have watched the first, Inaugural Lesson and it was a delightful experience. Even though I have been giving many promotional presentations on Maharishi Open University to our Meditators, now I realize that no words can compare with actual experience of this “strawberry”. I could feel waves of bliss and softness radiating from the screen all over our house, which made me watch the broadcasts over and over again. And this came from Maharishi’s speech, and from all of you speaking the knowledge. It is such a blessing to have all of you visiting my home twice a week. This experience makes it so much easier to inspire others for joining Maharishi Open University. I would like to congratulate you and to thank you for so much work you have done to make this miracle possible.

FRANCE

The Total Knowledge course in my native language has had a striking effect. All that is said acquires more strength, more life, and goes deeper in me. The impact of the sounds of my Mother Tongue has been very positive and I wanted to mention it. Notions of time and space are fading and then disappear completely after a few minutes of the lesson. I have the sensation that I am in the classroom and not alone at home.

It is very difficult to put into simple words the beautiful sensation that I feel at each lesson—always renewed and always more enriched. This course is for me an unexpected confirmation of all that I had felt intuitively but in a confused way. When I started to discover Maharishi’s knowledge I had the sensation that a very ancient memory has been always sleepy in myself and suddenly it started to wake up. And every day starts to put a little more order, balance and harmony in my life.

As the course progresses each explanation, each concept that I discover immediately resonates within me and is in perfect harmony with my intellect, my mind and my whole being. To my great astonishment, it happened several times that I realized that the lesson to which I was listening that day would give me, as if by magic, the answer to a problem or a doubt that had been particularly bothering me for a few days before.

Since I started Transcendental Meditation, and even more since I started the Maharishi Open University Course, a feeling of serenity, joy and fulfillment often takes place in me and drives away any uncertainty, doubt or sadness. I often feel a sweet thrill as if I were in front of a big jewel box and I had just opened the lid. My dearest desire is to be able to attend the TM-Sidhi Course next summer.


The sequential waves of knowledge received week after week, are rooting life in the Unified Field, resulting in an infinite satisfaction and total freedom which bring the sweet understanding and experience that we are living in a perfect universe. Every single thing is at its place. In that state, no more do we lament over the past, or marvel at the present, or fear the future. “They come and go, but ‘I’ go on forever” is the experience.

There is a youthfulness to Life that, when the attention quietly reposes on it, renders living infinitely blissful; we become aware of the big and continuous smile of Life and aware of the dance of joy of Nature in which we are continually participating.


I am happy when the Total Knowledge lesson ends as it has filled up my evening with something nice and uplifting. But I am rather sad when it is ending. Yet I have great pleasure to know I will meet again with those smiles in the next lesson. Knowledge really enters our home and I feel it like the scent of a flower. The atmosphere is completely changed in our house and I am deeply grateful.
GERMANY

From lecture to lecture one notices how the dives into pure knowledge become deeper and deeper, and gradually we are getting a glimpse of the immense vastness of Vedic Knowledge. From the very first lesson we felt that something very special and magnificent was waiting for us. It’s almost as if we received a new technique. Many pieces of knowledge are being put together now into one grand wholeness. This now is another crucial step for our development.


It is simply a great delight to be a course participant of Maharishi Open University and its Total Knowledge Course. Everyone is fully enjoying the knowledge, and when they go home, they are completely happy and relaxed. Thank you so much!

We feel things transforming in a life-supporting manner, since we have installed Maharishi Open University. We watch the 7 o’clock morning session and that really makes the day. The whole day one thinks about the aspects of Natural Law and Total Knowledge. Everyone should really get this knowledge.

We noticed that after the Maharishi Open University programme began on 3 December it had an influence of increased orderliness in the weather condition. The temperature decreased and snow came. The air became very clear and pure.

Our own situation has become easier, the surroundings and other people started to react more softly. A new feeling of being connected with the whole world has grown; a kind of general liveliness has increased. After Maharishi’s first lecture we felt very much uplifted, and new horizons and possibilities started to open again. For all this we would like to express our deep appreciation and gratitude.


What a great gift we are experiencing to have the opportunity to get Total Knowledge in such a magnificent way. We think the presentations are brilliant. We feel a great impulse when we listen to Maharishi Open University. We feel things transforming in a life-supporting manner since we have installed Maharishi Open University.

GREECE

The feeling from Maharishi Open University is strong waves of Total Knowledge, and the experience of deep, silent and strong activity during the whole day. Total Knowledge is lively in our hearts through the Maharishi Open University lessons and really, as Maharishi says, it has infinite organizing power. All the students are leaving the Study Centres swinging in bliss.
HUNGARY

After my Wednesday class I can hardly wait till the next Monday. 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.
ITALY

The course was appreciated very much by people who have started Transcendental Meditation recently, because they had the possibility to know a lot of things completely new to them, and in a very easy and systematic way.

Several people have felt the importance of the routine in following the Course and they are already enrolled for future courses because they feel that it is good to continue being one-pointed systematically on Total knowledge.


Since I was a boy the right side of my body was weaker than the other, Whenever I did any kind of effort, at the end I felt pain in different parts of the body but only on the right side. After the beginning of the Total Knowledge Course, I started to feel more flexibility and less tiredness in that side. Now I feel very well, more strong, more flexible and capable to do more without having any kind of pain.

In our family everything has started to go in a very smooth way. The atmosphere is very harmonious, and it has been possible to achieve any kind of desire in a very easy way. I feel able to do more without feeling tiredness. Even family members not following the course are gaining benefit. I feel good about what I learned and I would like to continue.

LATVIA

There are no words which can express our gratitude for the organization of Maharishi Open University. Recently one participant said that due to Maharishi Open University all the members of his family found a job (it is a problem now here for the Russian speaking population). They all were the participants of Maharishi Open University. And the school students said that their success at school significantly increased. A lot of people spoke about improvement of health, mood, and stability in their life.

MOLDOVA

The meditating students of Moldova, the participants of the Maharishi Open University courses with their hearts full with joy and gratitude pass their congratulations on to Maharishi Open University. Everybody says that we need so much these courses. They feel their perception widening, their health improving, and a great gladness filling their life.

NORWAY

The course is incredibly inspiring and contains a complete overview on Maharishi Vedic Science. Even though the course is meant for all people of all ages and is independent of level of education, everyone will very quickly gain a deep insight into Total Knowledge! The study of Total Knowledge is the basis for doing flawless action!


Very inspiring! The course structure is exciting for all, both those who have been practicing Transcendental Meditation for a long time and those who are new. I recommend everyone to join! Maharishi said that Maharishi Open University would enable everyone to achieve anything, anywhere in time and place, and that is inspiring! This is valuable for everyone who wants to know themselves!

It is a great satisfaction to receive Total Knowledge straight at home in one’s own living room!
POLAND

When the Certificate of Total Knowledge course started to be transmitted in Polish in January we immediately noticed the rise of national consciousness. People became much more receptive to the Knowledge. In the first quarter of 1999 the crime rate dropped by 4 percent, apparently without any reason.

What is interesting is that in the days of transmission of the Maharishi Open University lessons in Polish many people experienced some change in collective consciousness and in their personal experience. Although many students already heard that the individual is cosmic, that unity is at the basis of diversity, etc., for the first time it was experienced so clearly.

RUSSIA

I have been meditating for about a year, and noticed huge changes in my life. These changes helped me to become a student of Maharishi Open University. The Certificate of Total Knowledge Course which is broadcast to all the world is like a pure light of rising sun, which by illumining everything around eliminates all the sufferings in the world and brings eternal bliss to the Earth.

I benefited indescribably from taking the Certificate of Total Knowledge Course—it helped me to open all purity and fullness of Total Knowledge. Now having the knowledge I gained in Maharishi Open University I can say with all confidence that Heaven on Earth is possible.

We are deeply grateful for this beautiful course. It brings so much light, love and goodness that it is difficult to find exact words to describe the feeling that one has from watching the lessons. It is impossible to express this experience of abstract unbounded flow of ocean of Knowledge, which in all its genuine purity flows into the mind and heart of every student of Maharishi Open University.
SWEDEN

People are reporting more support of Nature in daily life and deeper understanding of Total Knowledge. It’s really a wave of great awakening.


A man studying at the center in Malmo told me that often during the Maharishi Open University lessons he is experiencing joy. This joy is coming back during the day. We are feeling so privileged getting this beautiful Knowledge from Maharishi Open University.

SWITZERLAND

The very first lesson had a tremendous effect on my physiology—lightness, orderliness, a very healthy feeling of wholeness. Maharishi’s Inaugural lecture was a big step in this direction. I was translating for two hours without getting tired.

The broadcast on the full moon day of 3 December was even more special. For the first time I listened to the German translation. It touched much more my heart.

I felt much love for all the people who worked so focused to achieve the great endeavor of this worldwide broadcast of Maharishi Open University, and I was impressed by the sweetness, clarity and charm of the faculty of Maharishi Open University. The world is my family became even more my living reality.

I have a hard time recognizing that there is repetition in the broadcast. I experience the knowledge in Maharishi’s lecture as completely new every time. The richness in the dimensions of Maharishi’s lectures I experience as even greater than ever before. There is a great feeling of magical attraction to the broadcast. I run not to miss it, and so do others.

There is a beautiful liveliness in the lecture hall every time the lecture is going on. I experience deep feelings of gratitude and a wave of joy to be alive at this special time for mankind.

UKRAINE

We are happy to be MOU students ourselves. We look forward to each new lecture. How beautiful it is to realize the cosmic nature of man, to participate in global broadcasts! We got the feeling of intimate connection with everything that we are surrounded by, a beautiful feeling of unification with nature and simultaneous awareness of your own Self which contains both the forest, the lake, and something immeasurably greater. The feeling of confidence, stability has appeared.

Seeing the students of MOU change, seeing their relationships progress, we developed the desire to do everything possible in order that all Ukrainians have this unique opportunity to receive Total Knowledge by becoming MOU students.

We have found answers to many questions. A very precise understanding has come that each man is connected to the whole universe, and all our thoughts, feelings, emotions have influence on all the environment. There was a perfect experience of quick realization of positive ideas, trends, and desires.

UNITED KINGDOM

Attending the Maharishi Open University course on Total Knowledge has made clearer to me a vision of what perfection is possible in the lives of individuals, of and nations, and of the whole world family through the application of Maharishi’s knowledge and techniques. After attending an evening lesson I have sometimes listened to a radio news programme. The contrast is so great. The news is often about conflicts, tensions, and disasters, with no indication that there are solutions or that life need not go on at this troubled level. This brings home to me our need to practise and share the knowledge from your course in order to bring about the different world, which you have helped us to glimpse. I realise how much work the faculty must have done in preparation and it is great to see how much you all evidently enjoy teaching this knowledge. Warmest thanks to you all.

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