Maharishi's Vedic Economy
Total Knowledge-Based Approach to National
Creativity and Affluence
Press Conference
22 May 2007, MERU, Holland
‘Poverty is a superimposition. Affluence is natural level of life.’
—Maharishi
‘The world is administered by infinite creativity—enormous self-referral affluence—which is the Unified Field, in the world of science, and which is Veda. . . . In the Vedic terms, there is only affluence.’
—Maharishi
‘Poverty is imaginary. The real is affluence. So, if someone is leading unnatural life in poverty—unnatural. Suffering is unnatural. Pains are unnatural. Natural is health—infinity.’
—Maharishi
‘Point is made of infinity—it's the point of infinity. And infinity is made of points. So, for a point it is natural to bask in the sunshine of infinity. . . . Individual is cosmic. Cosmic is the potential of the individual.’
—Maharishi
‘Such a beautiful point of knowledge that suffering is imaginary, only imaginary; it is imposed on oneself. The real is total, infinite, and on that reality of infinite only affluence, invincibility, harmony, Totality, all possibility. These are natural, natural to life. Poverty is imaginary. But if someone has fallen into a dream of poverty, we shake him up and say, you are not poor!’ —Maharishi
‘Here is a treasury of the Global Country of World Peace. The Global Administration breathes that principle that only affluence is real, only cosmic status is real.’
— Maharishi
‘Why a man should have a concept that keeps him poor? Why? Only because of lack of knowledge.’
—Maharishi
‘This I am saying: concretely eliminate your misconceptions about poverty and about wealth. The whole world economy has been very cruel. The whole world economy has been floating on the boat of ignorance. Now is the time for enlightenment, for everyone to realize that poverty is a false notion.’
—Maharishi
‘It's very wrong education, wrong understanding, that a man is poor, that a government is poor, a government is rich. It's only notion, notion. Reality is: life is affluent, life is invincible, life is eternal freedom, life is cosmic.’
—Maharishi
‘Tell everyone that tomorrow it's possible that all the poor countries can ring the Bell of Eureka that there are no more poor. They can shake hands with all the rich people. It's a practical thing we are talking. It's a policy of the Global Country of World Peace that the treasury of the Global Country is the treasury of every nation.’
—Maharishi
‘The Global Country of World Peace considers the world is my family. The world is my family, and the family possession belongs to everyone in the family. Like that the wealth, the wisdom, the education, the health, everything of the Global Government, is the property of everyone, as everyone is invited to take it and be happy from today.’
—Maharishi
