Maharishi Praises World's Newest Nation
George DeForest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • 27 JUNE 2002
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Maharishi Praises World's Newest Nation
for Adopting "Constitution of the Universe"
Calls Man-made Constitutions
"Utter Failures, Source of All Problems"
Reveals "Secret" to Successful Government
His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi offered an answer to any government
leader searching for solutions to the problems gripping his nation:
Adopt the Constitution of the Universe as the national constitution,
and the country's administration will enjoy the same problem-free
effectiveness and efficiency with which Nature administers the
universe.
Maharishi's comments came during a wide-ranging, two-and-a-half hour
news conference with the international press on 26 June, broadcast
live via satellite and webcast over the Internet. The news conference
also showcased the historic developments in Rika Shanti Rashtra, the
worlds newest nation in the mountains of Costa Rica. The country has
established a special "brotherhood of friendship" with Maharishi's
Global Country of World Peace, which is providing organizational and
economic support to the new country.
Maharishi praised the newly crowned king of Rika Shanti Rashtra, His
Majesty Epe de Awapa Lissandro, for adopting the Constitution of the
Universe as the country's national constitution, because it will
ensure the "perpetual peace and prosperity" of the new nation.
"It is clear that humanly conceived constitutions, which are an
expression of human weaknesses and failings, have utterly failed to
administer society successfully," Maharishi said, citing as examples,
the need for a government to punish its citizens for committing crimes
and the need for offensive policies of defense.
"At its basis, this is the failure of education, which does not
develop the full, cosmic potential of the individual so that he does
not make mistakes—so that he does not commit crimes."
Maharishi said the solution will only be found at the deepest level of
Nature's functioning—the Unified Field of Natural Law as discovered by
modern science, which is the Constitution of the Universe, Rik Ved,
the Will of God.
"Humanly conceived constitutions are not perfect," Maharishi said.
"The administration of Natural Law is perfect, the administration of
the Will of God is perfect, because it promotes the evolution of
everything, from point to infinity, in the ever-expanding universe."
Maharishi said that the emergence of Rika Shanti Rashtra, with the
Constitution of the Universe as its constitution, is "a sign of the
rising purity of world consciousness." He invited all governments, "if
they want to survive," to adopt the Constitution of the Universe and
become invincible.
"Prime ministers and presidents hear the call from the war-mongering
nations: ‘If you don't support us in our war, then we will kill you.'
To this I say, ‘There are peaceful people in the world and there are
destructive people. You must decide whether to go with the killers or
to come with the saviors,'" Maharishi said.
"After centuries of military invasions, weapons and rule, has any
government created an ideal nation? No! Has any military safeguarded
the nation? No! The military has the power to kill and to die, but can
it save the nation? No! Today, a single missile can bring everything
to ashes."
However, Maharishi added, the world is now in the midst of a phase
transition from destruction to peace and invincibility. "It has been a
time of darkness so far, but now it is the dawn. Hopefully, the leader
of the most powerful war-mongering nation on earth is the last one to
reign destruction on the world, and from now there will be a purifying
wave of world peace for everyone and every nation to enjoy."
Maharishi again pointed to Rika Shanti Rashtra; "The example set forth
by the new, small country of Rika Shanti Rashtra, and the big country
of the Global Country of World Peace, will create a model of an ideal
government on the basis of Natural Law, which is the ultimate
authority for ideal administration."
Maharishi then revealed the "secret" of the success of
government—Vedic Administration through education. He said that if
students from the age of six to twenty years of age are able to
practice Transcendental Meditation during one period every day in
school, the entire national consciousness will remain coherent.
"Vedic administration through education will maintain a very high
level of coherence in the country, so that no negativity will emerge
in society and the government will not be required to punish anyone.
Ninety percent of the goals of the government will be realized if
Transcendental Meditation, its advanced techniques, and Yogic Flying
are taught to the students," Maharishi said, citing the hundreds of
published scientific research studies that validate this effect.
Maharishi concluded the news conference by returning to the theme of
constitutions, saying that the practice of Transcendental Meditation
by the citizens of any country will "fulfill every clause and every
laudable goal of that nation's constitution," but he said that there
is nothing he can do if government leaders do not respond.
"I am not responsible if a president or prime minister does not adopt
these procedures. I am not responsible if the people don't bask in the
sun but instead choose to remain in the darkness. I am only
responsible for bringing the knowledge," Maharishi said. "If they
don't take it then my Global Country of World Peace itself will create
peace for the world."
Bob Brigante
Right -- having failed to get a sovereign plot of land in Suriname or
the Northern Mariannas , the TM movement is now making a meaningless
declaration of nationhood in Costa Rica. Indian tribes in Costa Rica
do enjoy some measure of autonomy, like tribes in the U.S., but this
is a far cry from the sovereignty of a real nation, which is why the
U.S. courts and legislature determine what it is that Native Americans
can and can't do on their land (issues from gambling to peyote use).
The TM movement will find out soon enough what sovereignty is when
they start peddling their play money in Costa Rica, where I expect
that the real government will soon put an end to funny money
transactions.
Bob Brigante
http://mumbull.com
Lawson English
cash by the GCFP at the stated rate, why would there be any problem?
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Bob Brigante
The Indians living in the mountain jungles of Costa Rica don't have
anything, so sure, if the Raam were simply to be traded on the Indian
reservation, no problem. But the Global Country is talking big plans
to develop the Indians' land, which means that people in Costa Rica
outside the reservation who sell tractors and cement etc would have
to be persuaded to accept Raams in payment. In the unlikely event that
somebody stupid enough to accept Raams were found, the government of
Costa Rica would probably step in to put an end to a phony currency
that could threaten the financial stability of Costa Rican industry
and commerce.
Bob Brigante
http://mumbull.com