Maharishi Vedic University

INTRODUCTION

Definition of
Maharishi Vedic University

Maharishi:

Maharishi means Maha-Rishi

Maha means great, and

Rishi means seer.

‘Rishi’ sees the truth; ‘Maharishi’ enlivens the truth in the life of everyone.

Rishi sees the truth, the Veda, the inner reality of everyone’s life; Maharishi shows the truth, the Veda, within everyone, and enlivens the Veda, the structure of pure knowledge and its infinite organizing power—the total potential of Natural Law—within everyone.

Rishi is a seer. Maharishi is a teacher. Maharishi enlivens the knowledge and experience of the Veda, the total potential of Natural Law, within the physiology of everyone.

Rishi cognizes the Veda; Maharishi, the great seer, applies the Veda to the practicalities of daily life.

Maharishi is the custodian of supreme intelligence; Maharishi Consciousness is the fountainhead of pure knowledge, the Veda, and its infinite organizing power.

Vedic:

Vedic means pertaining to Veda.

Veda means knowledge, pure knowledge, complete knowledge.

Veda is defined as Mantra and Brahmana.

Mantras are the structures of pure knowledge, the sounds of the Veda; Brahmanas are the internal dynamics of the structure of pure knowledge, the organizing power of the Mantras—the structuring dynamics of the Mantras.

Because Mantras and Brahmanas both together constitute the Veda, the word ‘Vedic’ is meaningful for both aspects of Veda—Mantra and Brahmana.

Mantra and Brahmana together representing the structure and function of the Veda—the structure and function of Natural Law, the structure and function of the organizing power of Natural Law—embody the system or law that organizes order and promotes the processes of creation and evolution.

This is how pure knowledge, the Veda, in itself is the potential of organizing power; it is the structure or organizing power. Veda is the structure of pure knowledge with infinite organizing power.

Veda is the structure and function of pure knowledge. It encompasses the whole range of science and technology; it is theory and practice at the same time; it is the structure of Total Knowledge—Samhita of Rishi, Devata, Chhandas—the togetherness of the observer, observation, and object of observation.

Therefore, ‘Vedic’ includes the whole path of knowledge from the knower to the known—the whole field of subjectivity, objectivity, and their relationship; the whole field of life, unmanifest and manifest; the whole field of ‘Being’ and ‘Becoming’; the whole range of knowledge from its source to its goal—the eternal source, course, and goal of all knowledge.

The word ‘Vedic’ encompasses the whole unbounded field of space and time, from point to infinity.

University:

University means

First ‘Unified Knowledge’, then ‘diversified knowledge’: This is the proper sequence of imparting knowledge. This is actually the most ancient Vedic theme of imparting knowledge, which is now fully utilized in Maharishi Vedic University.

This eternal theme of Vedic Knowledge is expressed as:

First ‘Unified Knowledge’, then ‘diversified knowledge’—first knowledge of the WHOLE, then knowledge of the PART.

Knowledge of the WHOLE is the knowledge of consciousness, because consciousness is the most fundamental element in creation.

The name ‘University’ is justified only if it first provides the holistic structure of knowledge, the knowledge of consciousness—the unmanifest, basic reality of life, the total potential of Natural Law—and then provides the knowledge of the parts—the knowledge of the expressions of consciousness in the whole manifest, diverse universe.

Rk Veda categorically states that the lively home of all the Laws of Nature is available in this holistic field of consciousness. It says that in this holistic value of consciousness, in this state of self-referral consciousness, all the administrators of the universe—the Laws of Nature (the Devas)—reside.

He who does not know this field of transcendental self-referral consciousness, the expressions of pure knowledge, the Richas, the hymns of the Veda, accomplish little for him (Rk Veda, 1.164.39).

This means that without the intellectual understanding of consciousness, and without the experience of consciousness, the expressions of the field of consciousness are meaningless, baseless, and fruitless. All the universities in the world have proven this.
Without first providing the holistic value of knowledge—the knowledge and experience of consciousness—university education is baseless.

Rk Veda says: He who thinks and acts from this holistic field of consciousness, self-referral consciousness, is naturally served by the infinite organizing power of pure knowledge—the holistic value of consciousness—

Consciousness is its own technology. If one has not fathomed the field of one’s own consciousness, one has not opened oneself to the entire engineering of creation. This means that study of consciousness and research in consciousness is the most vital aspect of a university which fulfils the true meaning of the word ‘University’.
Therefore the name ‘University’ is significant only if it offers the complete theoretical and practical knowledge of consciousness.

Maharishi Vedic University fulfils the complete meaning of its name: Maharishi, Vedic, and University.