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Maharishi's Program of Reading the Vedic Literature: Unfolding the Total Potential of Natural Law, by William F. Sands, Ph.D.
This paper examines Maharishi's description of the nature and origin of the Vedic Literature, and its connectedness to the Self of every individual. Maharishi explains that the Vedic Literature is the eternal expressions of the self-interacting dynamics of a unified field of pure, self-referral consciousness, which underlies the physical universe. This field of consciousness is not only the basis of all forms and phenomena, but is also the simplest form of human awareness, available through the Transcendental Meditation® technique. Maharishi describes in detail how self-referral consciousness moves within itself, expressing itself as unmanifest sounds which constitute the Laws of Nature that create and administer the universe. These sounds are recorded in the texts of the Vedic Literature, and expressed in the human physiology. When the texts of the Vedic Literature are read with proper pronunciation by individuals who practice the Transcendental Meditation technique, these most fundamental impulses of Natural Law are enlivened in the mind, body, and environment, providing progress toward the growth to higher states of consciousness.
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Churning of Vedic Knowledge, by Detlef Eichler, Boone, North Carolina
53 shlokas in Devanagari with transliteration, translation and notes, containing knowledge of
Maharishi's
Vedic Science and quotes from the Vedic Literature, including Rig Veda,
Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Yogasutras, Brahmasutras, Yogavasishtha, Manu-Smriti,
Panini-Sutras, Chhandas-Sutras of Pingala, and Pratishakhyas.
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New Light on the Origins of Vedic Civilization, by
Kenneth Chandler PhD
Excerpts from three chapters of a book in progress by Dr. Kenneth Chandler expose
many misconceptions about the origins of Vedic civilization that were promoted by
European scholars of the 19th century. The first chapter summarizes archeological
research to dispel the myth that the Veda was created by outside invaders of India,
called the Vedic Aryans, who were supposed to have brought civilization into India
from somewhere in Western Asia. He also examines, in the second chapter, new evidence
that may push the dates of beginnings of the Vedic tradition back well into the third
millennium BC or before. In the third chapter, he looks at the contributions of Vedic
civilization to modern science and mathematics and traces the lines of influence from
Vedic India to Greece and Europeans civilization.
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