The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence: An introduction

The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence: An introduction

For more than five decades, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi brought out his complete knowledge for the benefit of humanity. Maharishi is renowned throughout the world for his holistic vision of the Vedic wisdom in its entirety, bringing together the various aspects of Vedic knowledge—revealing and operationalising the supreme value of this wisdom for
human life, both individual and collective. His complete revival of this wisdom continues to be an unparalleled contribution and resource for the world.

The descriptor ‘unparalleled’ does not do justice to the actual and potential impacts of Maharishi’s knowledge for humanity. This introduction is therefore a modest attempt to present the key principles and tenets of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence that he himself identified. Throughout the paper, this body of knowledge as brought out by Maharishi will be referred to as ‘Maharishi’s teaching’. Maharishi wrote texts on his teaching and that material is readily available, but characteristically it is his lectures, talks, symposia, interviews and engagement in human interactions that facilitated the imparting of knowledge to an audience and to the world.

The essential, profound insight of Maharishi’s teaching is that all aspects of creation, both objective and subjective, are the expression of a fundamental, abstract field of pure intelligence, of pure consciousness, and that this field can systematically and effortlessly be opened to human experience and human life as the simplest form of human awareness. All
the laws of nature, which create and govern material creation, are found to have their source in this field: Maharishi uses the language of physics in describing it as the unified field of all the laws of nature. Through his Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, Maharishi teaches, the human mind can be simply and naturally identified with this field and learn to operate from there. Thinking and acting from the level of the field of pure intelligence, any individual can spontaneously live a life supported by the total potential of Natural Law, a life of complete fulfillment and of all good to everyone, in what Maharishi identifies as ‘higher states of consciousness’.

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