Consciousness, Sustainability

and Natural Law

The Development of Deep Green Business through

Expanded Awareness

• When Transcendental Meditation is practiced by the people, national consciousness, collective consciousness, becomes aligned with Natural Law – the Constitution of the Universe – and all aspects of society become evolutionary, progressive, and harmonious.

What is sustainability?

• Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations. (EPA Website)

The Golden Rule

• Robert Gillman, editor of the In Context magazine, makes it easy to understand "sustainability refers to a very old and simple concept ...do unto future generations as you would have them do unto you."

What is the basis of

sustainability?• Sustainability is based on a simple

principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. 

• What happens if we forget this simple fact?

• We lose the wholeness as we scramble after the parts.

Sustainability and Natural

Law

“Natural Law is that irresistible, infinite power of life that makes everything always evolutionary.” Maharishi

• Natural Law is that which makes everything sustainable.

Organizing power of Natural

Law• “The organizing power of Natural Law

is that infinite organizing power which sustains existence and promotes the evolution of everything in the universe, automatically maintaining the well co-ordinated relationship of everything with everything else.” Maharishi

Natural Law guides life in an

evolutionary direction• Nature left to its own devices is

“sustainable”.

• The Industrial Revolution and the rapid pace of technological development has led to our present unsustainable way of life.

• Our growth has not been balanced and in accord with all the laws of nature.

Why do we violate Natural

Law?• Humans, along with all other creatures,

have an innate sense of self-preservation. We don’t put ourselves in harm’s way or hurt ourselves intentionally.

• So why do we behave, individually, and as a society, in a way that is self-destructive?

• Why do we violate Natural Law?

Violation of Natural Law is

due to stress and weakness• When we are tired or ill our thoughts

are not clear and we make mistakes.

• Maharishi’s Technologies of Consciousness, The TM and TM Sidhi programs offer a way to strengthen the mind and body and eventually live a life free from mistakes.

• More than 600 studies at 250 research institutions in 33 countries.

Where does consciousness

fit in?• Maharishi defines consciousness in its

pure most settled state as the source and foundation of the universe.

• Physicists have described this source of creation as the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature.

• If we could contact that source, we could have access to the unlimited power of Natural law.

Individual consciousness

expands to universal

consciousness• Consciousness or awareness of the

individual can be limited or narrow, but it can also expand to include the universe. It can swing from point to infinity.

• As our consciousness expands, our awareness and sense of Self expands to include those around us and our environment.

The root of biomimicry

• Spontaneously the conscious mind identifies itself with the self-referral unified field, the fountainhead of all the streams of activity in nature. As we gain more and more familiarity with that self-referral performance, our thoughts and actions spontaneously begin to be as orderly and evolutionary as all the activity of nature. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986: 97)

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Natural Law is the basis of

our inner and outer

environment• “The universe is governed by Natural

Law – the eternal, self-generated, self-perpetuated Cosmic Intelligence, omnipresent intelligence, fully awake intelligence at the transcendental basis of every grain of creation – the Cosmic Constitution, the Constitution of the Universe.

Enlivening Natural Law

• When Transcendental Meditation is practiced by the people, national consciousness, collective consciousness, becomes aligned with Natural Law – the Constitution of the Universe – and all aspects of society become evolutionary, progressive, and harmonious.

Improved Quality of Life

Quality of Life and Conflict Resolution

Principles of Natural Law

that guide sustainability• Nature takes the path of least action

• Do Less and Accomplish More

• Established in Being, Perform Action – In CC we spontaneously perform right action

• Nature knows best how to organize - bio-mimicry

• Giving is the Basis of Receiving – principle of reciprocity

Growth of Individual and

Collective Consciousness• The shift to sustainability has to take place on

both the individual and collective level.

• The “tipping point” will come, and we will have total acceptance of a new age of sustainability an economy of love, the Solar Age where progress is measured by Gross National Happiness.

• Dependence on fossil fuels and GDP that antiquated understanding of success will be seen as ignorant as the belief that the world is flat.

• When Transcendental Meditation is practiced by the people, national consciousness, collective consciousness, becomes aligned with Natural Law – the Constitution of the Universe – and all aspects of society become evolutionary, progressive, and harmonious.

Technique to expand awareness

• The technique that we use to enliven thiscosmic potential of human consciousness is the knowledge of the total value of natural law .

• Through the practice of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field we open our awareness to the

• total potential of natural law, which transcends boundaries and

• transcends isolated values of the laws of nature.

To live life in accord with Natural Law

• In this way,

• enlivening the full potential of natural law in our consciousness,

• we spontaneously live according to natural law, according to the

• evolutionary program of nature.

Laws of Nature governing

the galaxies govern the

human brain• Different levels of creation are governed by different laws of

• nature. Human life as a whole has the total potential of natural

• law to guide it. All the laws of nature, which can be seen governing

• the multitude of galaxies in the universe govern the billions of

• neurons in the human brain, and give man the ability to be a whole

• universe in himself.  

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Goal of Scientific Progress

• “The fulfillment of science and of man lies in the expansion of consciousness not merely to the stars but beyond – to the direct experience of that infinite, unbounded, eternal reality which alone can fulfill the natural direction of man’s growth and which is the ultimate aim and goal of scientific progress.”