Maharishi Offers Vedic Defence as Alternative to Bush’s Strategy of Pre-emptive Force - A better world within a few months - World Satellite Press Conferences on Wednesdays

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"VEDIC DEFENCE WILL ELIMINATE THE ENMITY

BETWEEN NATIONS THAT FUELS CONFLICT AND WAR--

PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES WILL JUST INVITE RETALIATION, NOT PEACE"

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Maharishi to hold global news conferences this Wednesday and Thursday -

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(17 December 2002) His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi offered a prudent

alternative to President Bush's strategy of pre-emptive strikes against nations

suspected of harbouring weapons of mass destruction. Maharishi called for the

implementation in every country of the prevention-oriented Vedic system of

defence of ancient India, which will eliminate the enmity between nations that

fuels conflict and war.

 

Maharishi's comments came during his weekly global news conference held on

Wednesday, 11 December 2002. The news conference was broadcast live via

satellite, Internet webcast, and teleconference call. Maharishi's next news

conferences will be held on Wednesday, 18 December and Thursday, 19 December.

(Please see page 3 for details.)

 

President Bush's military strategy

 

Responding to a question about President Bush's decision to abandon a 50-year

military policy of deterrence and containment in favour of a strategy of

pre-emptive force, Maharishi acknowledged that the President was trying his best

to defend America based on the limited knowledge that he has - even though his

actions could destroy the world.

 

Offensive strategies are never defensive

 

However, Maharishi emphasised, any military strategy based on offensive weapons

- no matter how destructive or how numerous they may be - will never safeguard a

nation against unseen terrorist enemies, or even against a single missile that

can turn society to ashes. Rather, the use of destructive weapons will invite

retaliation and attack. "Offensive strategies are not defensive," Maharishi

said. "If you are offensive to a nation, that nation - or friends of that nation

- will be offensive to you."

 

Prevention is the only answer

 

The only way to stop war is to prevent enmity from arising, Maharishi said, and

that can be accomplished through Vedic defence, which will transform today's

stressed world consciousness - a breeding ground for negativity and conflict -

into a coherent, harmonious family of nations. For that, Maharishi called for

establishing throughout the world several large groups of 8,000 experts

practising his Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying, including one larger

group of 40,000 experts in India. In addition, 3,000 Peace Palaces are to be

built in the world's largest 3,000 cities, including 51 in the UK - each Peace

Palace to be home to 100 to 200 Yogic Flyers.

 

According to extensive research published in leading scientific journals during

the past 30 years, these large coherence-creating groups effectively neutralise

the acute social, religious, and political tensions that fuel violence and

conflict, promoting peace and harmony in the world family.

 

A better world within a few months

 

When asked by a reporter if he would seek government support to establish the

groups, Maharishi said that he is in too much of a hurry to waste time waiting

for governments to respond. Instead, Maharishi said, he is accomplishing the

task on his own, with support of individuals worldwide, and he is doing so

quickly - "because we don't know what will happen in the world tomorrow."

However, Maharishi assured the press, "through our global efforts, within just a

few months, the world will be a better, brighter world."

 

Proper education the solution to crime - not punishment

 

Maharishi also declared that just as war will never be stopped through offensive

means of defence, crime will never be stopped through punishment. "Every country

has laws to punish the offenders, but crime has never been eliminated. Any crime

that is committed anywhere is due to the lack of proper education. The fault

lies with government because government is responsible for education."

 

His Majesty Raja Raam offers ideal education and administration

 

Maharishi said that His Majesty Raja Raam, the First Ruler of the Global Country

of World Peace, is promoting Vedic education so that students will develop their

full brain potential, and he is promoting Vedic administration so that the

administration of every nation will be as nourishing and evolutionary as the

Administration of Natural Law, which governs the infinite diversity of the

universe with perfect order.

 

"Such ideal education will ensure that people don't create problems for

themselves or for others, and such ideal administration will prevent the birth

of an enemy, both from within the country or outside its borders," Maharishi

said.

 

His Majesty Raja Raam is the world's leading neuroscientist whose research into

human physiology has revealed that every physical structure in the universe,

including the human body, is an expression of consciousness. His discovery has

established the primacy of consciousness over matter.

 

A new time of peace and prosperity for everyone

 

Maharishi concluded by emphasising that religions share the same truths: "As you

sow, so shall you reap" and "Help thy neighbour." Maharishi said that when every

country has a peace-creating group of Yogic Flyers, then no enemy will be born

for any country. "Every country will radiate only good to the world, and then

only good will return to every country. Our global effort to establish these

groups is creating a new time of peace and prosperity for everyone born in our

dear world - now and for all times to come."

 

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MAHARISHI'S GLOBAL NEWS CONFERENCES

 

As usual every week:

WEDNESDAY

18 December 2002

* 4.00 PM (UK time - GMT)

* 9:30 PM (India Standard Time)

* 17.00 hours (Central European Standard Time)

* 11:00 AM (USA EDT)

 

As usual every week:

THURSDAY

19 December 2002

* 10.30 AM (UK time - GMT)

* 4:00 PM (India Standard Time)

* 11.30 hours (Central European Standard Time)

* 5:30 AM (USA EDT)

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WATCH THE NEWS CONFERENCES LIVE:

 

VIA INTERNET at http://www.globalcountry.org

 

VIA SATELLITE:

 

EUROPE (including UK)

Watch live on The Maharishi Open University Channel

in Europe, W. Asia, North Africa - Wednesdays only

On Hot Bird 3 at 13 degrees East: Transponder 89;

Channel MOU.2; Frequency 12475 MHz; Polarity Horizontal;

Symbol rate 27500; FEC 3/4

 

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Watch live on The Maharishi Channel in SE Asia -

Wednesdays and Thursdays

On Europe*Star 1 Satellite at 45 degrees East:

Frequency 11556 MHz.; Symbol rate 5860; FEC 3/4;

Polarity vertical

 

NORTH AMERICA AND CENTRAL AMERICA

Watch live on The Maharishi Open University Channel

in the United States and Canada, Central America,

and the Caribbean - Wednesdays only

On Telstar 5 at 97 degrees West: Transponder 27;

Frequency 12177 MHz; Polarity vertical;

Symbol rate 23000; FEC 2/3

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Please email your questions for Maharishi, before or during the

press conference, to: PressOffice

or call (Holland) +31-475-539-569.

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EUROPE

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Tel: +31-475-539-569

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UK Press Office

Tel: 01622 815380

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Maharishi House

A14, Mohan Industrial Estate

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New Delhi 110044, India

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USA

Press Office

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Maharishi Vedic City

Iowa 52556 USA

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