Weekly Press Conferences
In July 2002, Maharishi began addressing the world press in a series of weekly news conferences broadcast live via global satellite, Internet webcast and teleconference. These conferences provide an important venue for profound knowledge, prevention-oriented solutions and enlightened news reporting.
How to Connect to Maharishi’s World Peace News Conferences
Day: Every Wednesday
Time: 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
To watch on the Internet: Go to www.mou.org. Replays of past press conferences are also available at this site.
To listen via telephone: Call 512-305-4600, enter the code 55689 followed by the # key.
To watch via satellite: Go to http://mou.org/view/satellite/us/index.html for satellite dish and Maharishi Channel details.
Questions from the Press: To ask Maharishi questions, press members should email WorldPeace@Maharishi.Net or call 641-470-1344. Please include your name, media organization, city and country.
Consciousness Governs the Physical World
An Excerpt from a Recent Press Conference
Question from the Press: If life is bliss, then why do people create obstacles in their lives?
Maharishi: Lack of proper education—just that. Everything depends on education. In education the main thing is intelligence, or consciousness. Physiology is one thing, but it is the intelligence that drives the physiology. So the emphasis of education should be on the driver—the intelligence or consciousness that governs the physiology.
Education throughout the world—all this university education—is more geared to bring the knowledge of physical sciences. The emphasis should be on that element which drives the physical.
It is the hand that slaps a man, but it is the mind that raises the hand and slaps him. So the education should be to regulate the mind, culture the mind. For that we have to train the whole brain physiology to act in a way that the consciousness or intelligence is a higher level of intelligence, not a low level of intelligence. So it is the education which is not good today.
That’s why we need Vedic Education. Vedic means education of Veda. Veda means Total Knowledge—education of total, practical knowledge. Today education lacks intelligence. Intelligence has to be the driving force of education.
In the same way, we need Vedic Health Care. There are all these great laws to prevent disease, to take care of health, but the health is going down the drain all the time.
We need Vedic Health Care, Vedic Agriculture, Vedic Defense. Vedic Defense means prevent the birth of an enemy. Preventing the birth of an enemy is being kind to the people.
All this is going to be transforming the quality of life in every part of the world, based on the influence that one big coherence-creating group and several small groups throughout the world will generate. And with this, life on earth will be a happy life, a peaceful life.
