Maharishi's Vedic Technologies – Developing Higher Consciousness in the Farmer

The Three Fundamentals of Farming--the Farmer, the Process of Farming and the Farm

A farmer is never separate from his crops. To grow natural, healthy crops, year after year, we need natural, healthy farmers. We need farmers who enjoy Vedic Consciousness--higher consciousness--who spontaneously live in tune with Natural Law.

Maharishi's Vedic Science recognizes that three elements are present in any relationship: the knower, the process of knowing and the known. In the case of agriculture, the threefold relationship is between the farmer, the process of farming and the farm, or the grower, the process of growing and the grown.

Unfortunately, modern agriculture has paid almost no attention to the first of these three fundamentals of farming--the development of the farmer himself--and so the very foundation of successful farming is missing.

To address this, Maharishi's Vedic Agriculture creates a Vedic farmer by developing his consciousness to be in perfect accord with Natural Law. With fully developed consciousness, all the farmer's thoughts, speech, and actions will be spontaneously in tune with Natural Law. All the appropriate elements for successful farming will be fully developed and at the farmer's command. Experiencing a unified state of Vedic consciousness, the farmer will be in perfect harmony with his near and greater environment. In Vedic terms, the "individual will be cosmic." In this unified state of awareness, each of the farmer's actions can only be nourishing to everything around him, because everything is simply an expression of his own inner life. The food produced by such an individual will be completely life supporting to all that are fortunate to receive it.

Rk Veda, the first and most holistic of the 40 branches of Veda and the Vedic Literature, expresses this fundamental point of life as follows: when consciousness is established in the Parame vyoman --the Transcendental Field--one naturally enjoys the full support of Deva adhi vishve nisheduh--all the Laws of Nature that administer the universe.

These Laws of Nature are the specific and holistic qualities of intelligence that become lively in the farmer's life when he rises to Vedic Consciousness, and these are the laws that naturally promote success in growing crops. The more Natural Law is enlivened in the life of the farmer, the more effortless and abundant will be the process of agriculture, and the more abundant the outcome, because success in agriculture fundamentally depends on the degree to which the farmer enjoys Support of Nature.

The Transcendental Meditation Program--Experiencing the Unified Field of Natural Law to Gain the Support of Nature and Develop Vedic Consciousness

The very word 'Agri-culture' calls for agreeing with the culturing intelligence of Natural Law. In order to realize Vedic Agriculture, the consciousness of the farmer must be fully developed--it must be Vedic. The Vedic Consciousness of the farmer means the scientific consciousness of the farmer because everything that is Vedic is in full accord with all the theories of modern science.

To develop Vedic Consciousness in the farmer, and bring the farmer in attunement with Natural Law, Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture employs the Maharishi Vedic Technologies of Consciousness.

The Maharishi Vedic Technologies of Consciousness include the practical, scientifically validated programs known as the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, which apply the most fundamental and powerful level of Natural Law--the Unified Field--for the benefit of mankind.

The Transcendental Meditation technique is a simple, natural, effortless mental technique practiced 15 to 20 minutes twice daily. The Transcendental Meditation technique allows the mind to naturally settle down to increasingly silent and orderly levels of awareness, until it experiences the simplest, most expanded state of awareness, Transcendental Consciousness, where individual consciousness is identified with the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature.

This experience of Transcendental Consciousness, where the mind is restfully alert, promotes balance and optimal functioning in body and mind, and great effectiveness in action. The experience of Transcendental Consciousness develops the individual's latent creative potential, which enlivens creativity, dynamism, orderliness, and organizing power within one's awareness, resulting in increased effectiveness and success in daily life.

The Transcendental Meditation technique can be easily learned by anyone. More than 6 million people, of all ages, belonging to all cultures, religions, and educational backgrounds in countries throughout the world, practice this technique.

The Maharishi Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi Program

The Maharishi Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi program is an advanced aspect of the Transcendental Meditation program. It trains the individual to think and act from the level of Transcendental Consciousness, spontaneously developing the ability to function in our daily activity from the level of the Unified Field of Natural Law. This brings about the full support of Natural Law and the effortless fulfillment of one's desires in all avenues of life. The most powerful of the Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi techniques is Yogic Flying, which demonstrates perfect mind-body coordination. This technique has been scientifically correlated with maximum brainwave coherence, indicating maximum orderliness and integration of brain functioning, where the total potential of the brain is fully awakened.

Functioning from this level of total potential of Natural Law, one can command all channels of Nature's infinite creativity and invincible organizing power. Just as an order from the head of state or the Prime Minister commands the total authority and resources of the nation for its implementation, any intention projected from the Unified Field of Natural Law commands the infinite organizing power of Natural Law for its immediate fulfillment.

When a sufficient number of people practice Maharishi's Technologies of Consciousness in the nation, it creates the "Maharishi Effect, or an indomitable level of coherence in national consciousness, bringing peace, happiness, and prosperity to everyone in the nation. In the Vedic text of the Ramayana, it discusses the outcome of this level of coherence on agriculture in the nation. Ayodhya was the land in ancient Vedic India where the Ruler Ram achieved a perfect level of integrated coherence for his nation:

There (in Ayodhya) trees were always firmly rooted and always endowed with fruit and flowers; the rains came according to desire and the winds were pleasant to the touch.

Benefits of the Direct Experience of the Unified Field of Natural Law Verified by Modern Science

Furthermore, the direct experience and utilization of the Unified Field of Natural Law through the Maharishi Vedic Technologies of Consciousness enliven the holistic, evolutionary qualities of the Unified Field in all aspects of life--physiological, psychological, sociological and ecological. Mind, body, behavior and society improve, as documented by a large body of scientific research. These results demonstrate increased intelligence and creativity, improved health, reduced medical costs, decreased anxiety, increased self-actualization, better job performance, etc.

Over 600 scientific research studies, conducted at more than 200 universities and research institutions in 30 countries, validate the wide-ranging benefits of the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying. These studies have been published in major scientific journals and presented at scientific conferences throughout the world. (See Appendix 4 for more details.)