His Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is widely regarded as the world's foremost scientist in the field of consciousness.

Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) Program, is the most widely practiced and extensively researched program of self-development in the world today.

More than 600 scientific research studies conducted during the past fifty-one years at over 250 independent universities and research institutes in 33 countries have validated the profound benefits of theTranscendental Meditation program for the individual and for every area of society, including health, education, business, industry, rehabilitation, defence, agriculture, and government.

Nearly five million people in all parts of the world practice the TM technique and 40,000 teachers of the Transcendental Meditation Program have been trained so far.

In addition, more than 100,000 people have learned Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Program and are daily practicing Yogic Flying, an advanced program of Transcendental Meditation.

Maharishi has held hundreds of World Peace Assemblies on all continents during the past fifty-one years with many thousands of people coming together to meditate in large groups and create a powerful effect of peace and harmony in world consciousness.

Over the past fifty-one years Maharishi has established a worldwide organization with more than 1,200 centers in 108 countries.

Hundreds of books have been published about Maharishi’s teachings. These have been translated into many languages and have been distributed globally.

Maharishi is one of the most videotaped personalities in history. There are more than 15,000 hours of video and audio tape recordings of lectures in Maharishi’s international film and tape library.

Maharishi has completely restored the theory and practice of the thousands-of-years-old scattered Vedic Literature and has organized it in the form of a complete science of consciousness.

Maharishi always attributed his achievements to his master, Shri Guru Dev, His Divinity Brahmanand Saraswati Maharaj, Jagatguru Bhagavan Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Badrikashram, Himalayas—most illustrious embodiment of Vedic Wisdom in the ancient tradition of Vedic Masters.

The Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health

Ayurveda is the health care system of the ancient Vedic Tradition of India and is the world’s oldest and most complete system of natural medicine. The Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health is the revival of the complete and authentic practice of Ayurveda and related health practices from the Vedic tradition by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the TM technique.

Vedic knowledge mirrors the most advanced modern scientific understanding of nature. Both see all the laws and physical reality of nature springing from their source in an abstract, non physical field of pure potentiality. Modern quantum physics has described this abstract, non-physical source of natural law as the Unified Field. The Vedic Rishis experienced this field directly and called it Veda. The Rishis experienced the Unified Field as the source of the functioning of their own mind and all of nature. They experienced it as a field of pure consciousness and unbounded intelligence.

Modern science used an objective approach to arrive at the source of nature’s functioning in the Unified Field and the Vedic Rishi’s used a subjective approach to arrive at the Unified Field through direct experience. Maharishi Ayurveda’s greatest contribution to modern science is the insight that the Unified Field and all it’s potentiality is present in every human being at the source of the functioning of their own mind.  Even more importantly Maharishi Ayurveda also provides a systematic approach to culture the human mind and physiology to allow any individual a deeper contact with this source of natural law within.

From a health perspective the main characteristic of nature’s functioning is its power to constantly heal and rebalance. As the ancient adage states the physician treats but nature heals.

Maharishi Ayurveda’s most powerful effect is not from the strength of herbs, diet or cleansing programs but rather because it’s procedures help reconnect the individual with the healing power of nature itself. All of Ayurveda is aimed at enlivening the healing response and bringing the immense rejuvenative power of natural law to full play in  individual life.

Maharishi played the role of re-establishing the pre-eminent importance of consciousness in Ayurveda and health. He reintroduced the lost techniques to connect individuals to the Unified Field within. He also worked with the greatest Ayurvedic physicians of our age and helped them properly interpret the vast body of Ayurvedic knowledge they inherited from the original Rishi’s so it’s full effectiveness could return. This revival was called Maharishi Ayurveda to emphasize the fact that a modern day Rishi had re-established the original practice and effectiveness of Ayurveda.

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