Sambodhi 2009 Vol 32

SR No.: 520782
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J B Shah, K M patel
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 190
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 19 MB

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Vol. XXXII, 2009
Major progress linking modern science and...
mas and paradoxes so recalcitrant in the modern scientific context can be resolved. Efficacious means to expand human experience beyond the ordinary waking state of consciousness, to transcend ordinary mental activity, is the practical basis for fully linking modern science and Vedic science. Transcending the limitations of the ordinary waking state of consciousness, individual psychology can be unbound, and we can fully realize our natural, essential universal status. That has been the perennial message of ancient Vedic rishis and all of the wise—whatever their cultural, intellectual, secular, or sectarian backgrounds and history (1)
But accessible, reliable means to foster the inner transcendent state had been lost to human society, eastern and western. An efficacious scientific methodology to attain the transcendent state was missing, not only in modern scientific methodology but also in philosophical, religious, and spiritual traditions world-wide. In the absence of systematic experiential means to transcend thought, thoughtful people have resorted to complicated means in laudable but ineffective efforts to attain it, frequently based on misinterpretations of developmental technologies in ancient Vedic science. This unfortunate legacy is now ending with major advances in the revival of natural, holistic developmental technologies drawn from ancient Vedic science. The unique and invaluable contribution to these advances of the consciousness-based approach of Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology led by foremost Vedic scientist and educator His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is increasingly recognized. The Transcendental Meditation technique of Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology has been shown to be a systematic, effortless yogic practice that is a reliable means for direct experience of transcendental consciousness. This is extensively supported by well-designed published psychophysiological, psychological, and behavioral research (5). For millennia, the tragic loss of the practical developmental technologies in ancient Vedic science had constricted human development. Maharishi explains:
"This tragedy is the fate of a path of knowledge based on direct experience when the means to that direct experience has been lost. Past attempts to interpret the Vedas, whose basic subject matter is the recorded experiences of evolution throughH(higher) states of consciousness, most obviously have been hopeless in the absence of any personal knowledge of theseHstates (4)."
“Science is universal. The terms 'eastern science' and 'western science simply denote different approaches to the object of inquiry, different approaches to knowing and to living the