Maharishi says Bush pushes world towards destruction

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday July 02, 2002 22:51 by Raymond McInerney - Global Country of World Peace raymond.mcinerney at ul dot ie 122 Vale Avenue, Carew Park, Limerick

Urges leaders to adopt peaceful Vedic approach to defence

(2 JULY) - US President George W. Bush, Jr,. is pushing the world towards destruction with his ill-conceived fight against terrorism, and heads of state should not follow his lead, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will announce during a global satellite news conference on Wednesday, 3 July (see details above).

Maharishi will urge government leaders to instead adopt
prevention-"the only solution to crime and terrorism"-and utilise
his peaceful Vedic approach to defence which "promotes coherence
in national consciousness and prevents the birth of an enemy."

Maharishi says Bush's strategy of bombing and killing will never
create peace; rather, it just fuels fear and incites retribution.
And now, with the widespread availability of deadly new weapons,
Maharishi says that no country is safe from destruction. "One
missile dropped on a country and everything is in ashes-and the
military cannot stop it."

"Killing is sin, and the killer will be destroyed."

"Killing is sin," Maharishi says. "It doesn't matter who is doing
the killing-a head of state, a businessman, or a labourer.
Killing is sin, and the killer will be destroyed. This is not me
saying that. This is in every religion: 'As you sow, so shall you
reap.' And killing by the military is a much bigger sin, because
it will come back on the whole country."

Maharishi also deplores the lack of competent leadership in the
world and the chaotic national administrations that are based on
deeply flawed, humanly conceived constitutions. He says that the
authority of rulership must be based on the deepest level of
Nature's functioning-"the Unified Field of Natural Law, the
Constitution of the Universe, which governs the universe with
perfect order and without a shadow of ignorance".

Acknowledging "so many bloody wars in the long history of
ignorance", Maharishi says that now, however, the world is in the
midst of a phase transition from destruction to invincibility: "A
new time of peace and prosperity is dawning."

Creating coherence in world consciousness

Maharishi says he is establishing several large groups of Vedic
Pandits throughout the globe who will practise Vedic Yagyas,
Transcendental Meditation, and Yogic Flying to create indomitable
coherence in world consciousness.

"Ignorance will simply disappear as darkness disappears with the
onset of light," Maharishi says. "The constitution of every
nation will rise to the level of the Constitution of the
Universe-the Constitution of the Will of God. No one will make
mistakes, no one will commit crimes-and no government will be
forced to punish anyone."