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A Glimpse of
Fifty-One Years Around the World
1957–2008
The auspicious
year of 1957 is celebrated as the inaugural year of Maharishi’s worldwide
Transcendental Meditation Movement, but Maharishi has explained that the
Movement truly began in the blissful, infinite silence of his Master, Shri
Guru Dev, Maha Yogiraj, His Divinity Brahmanand Saraswati, Maharaj,
Jagatguru Bhagavan Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Badrikashram, Himalayas.
Guru Dev is revered as the embodiment of Vedic Wisdom closest to Maharishi
in the great Tradition of Vedic Masters who have passed down the eternal
wisdom of life from teacher to student since time immemorial.
‘The Vedic
Tradition, upheld in its purity by a long history of custodians, enshrines
the supreme knowledge of the integration of life. From time to time a
revival of man’s understanding of the eternal wisdom of this Holy Tradition
arises to rescue him from suffering, restoring him to the speedy path of
evolution, and awakening him to a meaningful life in fulfilment. The Masters
of this Tradition have been exponents of reality from earliest ages. In each
new epoch, they have propounded the enduring truths of practical living and
have set out those standards by which men’s lives may attain the highest
achievements and fulfillment, generation after generation’ — Maharishi
In 1953, after
twelve years of service to the feet of Guru Dev, Maharishi retired to the
caves of the ‘Valley of the Saints’ in Uttar Kash¡, high in the Himålayas.
Deep in the silence of the Himålayas, the impulse of Nature itself led
Maharishi in 1955 to leave his secluded life in Uttar Kash¡ and travel to
the southern-most tip of India, with no other thought or plan in his mind
than simply to follow the whisper of Nature, ‘Råmeshvaram’ [Kerala]. But in
this innocent move was contained the blueprint of a new age and a new
civilization, just as the sprouting of a seed has all the vitality to expand
and produce the fruit, season after season.
Years later
Maharishi recalled: ‘Coming from the Himålayas, I had the thought—it was
very fresh in mind—that it is not necessary for man to suffer. All the
literature in India is full of beautiful exaltations. The Veda says,
“Amritasya putrå˙—O sons of Immortality!”—addressing all mankind as sons of
immortality. The Veda says, “Of Ånand [bliss] all this is born, in Ånand all
this is sustained, and to Ånand all this is going.” But where is the reality
of this in the day-to-day life of the people?’ With singular purpose,
Maharishi began to offer the technique of Transcendental Meditation in the
name of Guru Dev, for people everywhere to experience unbounded Bliss
Consciousness and integrate it into daily life. What emerges from the events
of the next fifty-three years is a clear picture of how Nature, working
through Maharishi, has changed the destiny of time from the suffering of
ignorance to the dawn of a golden age—Sat-Yuga—Heaven on Earth.
Reflecting on
Maharishi’s Achievements, we are reminded of words Maharishi used to
describe the life of Guru Dev: ‘The greatest attainment of a saint is his
life itself, the high edifice of realized Upanishadic living that develops
from direct experience of reality. To understand that inner personality one
must approach such realized souls with an open and receptive mind and try to
visualize the great internal life that is the basis of their actual and real
form of living.’
1957
Maharishi’s Year of Transcendental Meditation
1958
Maharishi’s Year of Spiritual
Regeneration Movement
1959
Maharishi’s Year of Global Awakening
1960
Maharishi’s Year of Cosmic Consciousness
1961
Maharishi’s Year of Teacher Training
1962
Maharishi’s Year of Theory of the Absolute
1963
Maharishi’s Year of the Science of Being and Art of Living
1964
Maharishi’s Year of God Consciousness
1965
Maharishi’s Year of Bhagavad-G¡tå
1966
Maharishi’s Year of Academy of Meditation
1967
Maharishi’s Year of Unity Consciousness
1968
Maharishi’s Year of Students
1969
Maharishi’s Year of Supreme Knowledge
1970
Maharishi’s Year of Scientific Research
1971
Maharishi’s Year of Science of Creative Intelligence
1972
Maharishi’s Year of the World Plan
1973
Maharishi’s Year of Action for the World Plan
1974
Maharishi’s Year of Achievement of the World Plan
1975
Maharishi’s Year of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment
1976
Maharishi’s Year of Government
1977
Maharishi’s Year of Ideal Society
1978
Maharishi’s Year of Invincibility to Every Nation
1979
Maharishi’s Year of All Possibilities
1980
Maharishi’s Year of Pure Knowledge, the Veda
1981
Maharishi’s Year of Vedic Science
1982
Maharishi’s Year of Natural Law
1983
Maharishi’s Year of the Unified Field
1984
Maharishi’s Year of Unified Field-Based Civilization
1985
Maharishi’s Year of Unified Field-Based Education
1986
Maharishi’s Year of Perfect Health
1987
Maharishi’s Year of World Peace
1988
Maharishi’s Year of Achieving World Peace
1989
Maharishi’s Year of Heaven on Earth
1990
Maharishi’s Year of Alliance with Nature’s Government
1991
Maharishi’s Year of Support of Nature’s Government
1992
Maharishi’s Year of The Constitution of The Universe
1993
Maharishi’s Year of Administration through Natural Law—Raam Raj
1994
Maharishi’s Year of Discovery of Veda in Human Physiology
1995
Maharishi’s Year of Silence
1996
Maharishi’s Year of Awakening
1997
Maharishi’s Year of Global Administration through Natural Law
1998
Maharishi’s Second Year of Global Administration through Natural Law
1999
Maharishi’s Third Year of Global Administration through Natural Law
2000
Maharishi’s Fourth Year of Global Administration through Natural Law
2001
Maharishi’s Year of Global Country of World Peace
2002
Maharishi’s Year of Raam Mudra
2003
Maharishi’s Year of Ideal Government—Raam Raj
2004
Maharishi’s Year of Peace Palaces
2005
Maharishi’s Year of Golden Jubilee
2006
Maharishi’s Year of Reconstruction for the Whole World to be Heaven on
Earth—First Year of Sat-Yuga
2007
Maharishi’s Year of Capital of Global Raam Raj
2008
Maharishi’s Year of Invincibility—Global Raam Raj
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