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Promoting
Creative Intelligence
and Developing Talent Hitherto Considered
Beyond Human Potential is the Essence of
Maharishi's Vedic Technology.
By
Dr. Ian Brown
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The
previous article (October 22) discussed the predicament
posed by having identified talent as a company's most
valuable resource while observing that Western education
and job training techniques have consistently failed
to improve talent The Vedic technologies of consciousness,
most notably, according to extensive scientific research,
the Transcendental Meditation and TM- Sidhi Programme
including Yogic Flying of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi, have resolved this Quandary. Maharishi's programmes
have been measured to promote growth not only in such
fundamental competencies underlying the expression
of talent as creative intelligence, but also in the
development of talents hitherto considered beyond
the pale of human potential: the siddhis as described
in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
This
remarkable compilation of extraordinary talents and
formulae for their development provides a blueprint
for benchmarking the unfolding of the full human potential
namely, the degree of mastery of these siddhis
That
Patanjali's work is currently viewed with skepticism
and not recognised as an authoritative text on human
development is due to the insistence that performance
of the siddhis violates the scientifically discovered
laws of nature. Thus, the reliability of numerous
eyewitness accounts of Yogic Flying has been discredited
on the basis of the classical understanding of gravity
formulated by Newton and Einstein.
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YOGIC
FLYING:
Not
violating the mechanical
understanding of gravity
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However,
with the discovery in quantum physics of a Unified
Field of all the laws of nature that govern the
creation and orderly (intelligent) evolution of
the universe, the objections of modern science to
the descriptions by India's great rishis, of the
unbounded nature of human potential, become stilled.
The Unified Field gives credence to the plausibility
of mastering siddhis. Yogic Flying, for example,
does not violate the new quantum mechanical understanding
of gravity, provided the performer is established
at the level of the Unified Field (the Planck Scale
where gravity becomes defined by a space-time foam).
This stipulation is the same as the prerequisite
established for developing the siddhis.
Practically
speaking, though, physicists, unable to investigate
directly into the nature of the Unified Field, have
yet to propose new technologies for harnessing this
unlimited resource of talent. However, with the
remarkable discovery that the Unified Field is the
field of pure consciousness, Atma, the Self of everyone,
Vedic technologies fill the void created by modern
science.
As
pointed out by Maharishi, on the basis of technologies
of consciousness anything can be achieved in the
whole field of creation. This is a stunning conclusion,
whose vision of an infinitely extending human potential
opens up realisable achievements like the eradication
of war, poverty, disease and all suffering that
brings unhappiness to the family of man. Such is
theoretically quite practical, but it is predicated
upon the ability to operate from the Unified Field,
the origin of creative intelligence – the infinite
organising power of Natural Law that governs the
universe.
According
to Maharishi, "Total Natural Law is available
in the Self-referral state of consciousness –
Transcendental Consciousness – that is why
the Vedic Philosophy of Action is: Yogastah kuru
karmani (Bhagavad Gita, 2.48) Established in
the Self, perform action. Prakritim swam avashtabhya
visrijami punah punah (Bhagavad Gita, 9.8) Curving
back onto My own Nature, I create again and again.
Yatinam Brahma bhavati sarathih (Rig Veda,
I.158.6) For those established in Self-referral
consciousness, the infinite organising power of
the Creator becomes the charioteer of all action.
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ENHANCING
PERFORMANCE
THE MAHARISHI WAY:
To
shoot the arrow forward
one must first pull it back
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Western
philosophies of action pertain to utilising skill,
as exhibited by its emphais on maximizing the workday,
and characterised by Edison’s description of
genius as 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
The Vedic counterpart, with its focus on talent
is summarised by Maharishi’s expression: do
less and accomplish more.
It
is not input effort but output achievement that
determines success, and the two are inversely related.
TO improve talent levels, go to the source of talent,
the field of pure consciousness, which according
to physics is a field of least excitation.
To
display talent, the formula is to first minimise
activity; to shoot the arrow forward, as Maharishi
advises one must first pull it back in the opposite
direction. To improve company performance the procedure
is to pull back the talent arrow by incorporating
employee group practice of Maharishi’s Vedic
Technologies of Consciousness into the daily work
routine. Only on this basis should skill training
and education be subsequently implemented. Skill
development enhances efficiency, but what use are
efficiency improvements, if effectiveness, a function
of talent, remains beyond control? Doing the wrong
things better may have harmful repercussions. These
days, top priority must be restored to improving
effectiveness and this is via the same Vedic technologies
as used for developing talent. Managing effectiveness
and other issues whose realisation requires a Vedic
approach to knowledge – such as the unfolding
of full organisational potential, the cultivation
of leadership qualities, the elimination of stress
and the guaranteeing of success – will be addressed
in subsequent articles.
The
author is a professor of Vedic Management
Maharishi Institute of Management
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