Enliven Inner Peace

“There is an ever-increasing state of chaos in the world; tension increases daily in the individual, in social life, in national affairs and international relations. The great and urgent need is for something to re-establish harmony in the individual human being and to give him peace; only from such an inner peace can wisdom and happiness be born. All that we call wisdom today, all knowledge, the whole process of endless fact-gathering must utterly fail to satisfy the real needs of man; for these real needs are called happiness, understanding and wisdom, and they are not vain and unworldly aspirations but man’s birthright…”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation

The world is in a critical stage, a transition stage. We are called upon to choose a higher wisdom or to cascade into a dangerous period of escalating conflicts and dissension. We have the ability to move forward into a more universal awareness of the inherent unity between all religions, all cultures, all collective human aspirations. Everyone wants to experience lasting happiness and fulfilment. This can only be achieved by expanding our vision. We must look deeply into the underlying fabric of life. There we will find a web of interconnectedness, of interdependence, a primordial symphony of life. This symphony cannot be broken. This web of interconnectedness can be directly experienced during meditation. It is an experience of pure consciousness, a state of inner peace, deep silence and unbounded awareness. It is an experience of the unified wholeness at the basis of life.

The only solution to the present crisis of conflicts in the world is to enliven inner peace in individual awareness. The practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique enables the mind to transcend the surface active level and experience deeper, more expanded, more silent levels of the thinking process. This enables the mind to develop broader comprehension so that more far-reaching solutions can be found to the problems facing the world today.

Plato said:

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”

All wars arise as a result of massive stress in the collective consciousness of a nation. The stress erupts and causes outbreaks of turbulence. To conquer oneself is to bring the warring, animal propensities under the control of the higher Self, the inner divine nature. The higher Self intuitively knows how to live in harmony with natural law. It transcends the biases of the mind and is more in touch with universal truth. Enlivening inner peace in the individual is the only path to creating a lasting state of harmony in the family of nations.

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”

Black Elk

We can stop wars from happening by enlivening the unifying element at the basis of life. This unifying element is pure consciousness, the deepest level of the human mind. Pure consciousness is a state of perfect balance. It is a state in which the total potential of natural law is enlivened in human awareness. This is the state of least excitation of consciousness. In this state, one experiences a very deep rest which allows deeply rooted stresses to be released. The result of this practice is the spontaneous ability to live more and more in harmony with natural law. One becomes capable of producing life-supporting actions to enrich the fabric of unity, health and harmony in the collective consciousness of the nation.

In order to make a significant impact on world consciousness, the group practicing Transcendental Meditation together must be increased to at least the square root of one percent of the world’s population. When a permanent group of 10,000 individuals practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique together is established, it could be the catalyst for a dramatic shift toward a lasting state of peace in the world.