Maharishi Vedic Organic AgricultureSM Institute

and the
Ministry of Agriculture of the
Global Country of World Peace

Consciousness-Based Agriculture
and
Environmental Management
Based on
Maharishi Vedic Organic AgricultureSM
and the
Maharishi Vedic Procedures of FarmingSM and
Environmental ManagementSM

by Drs. John and Sara Konhaus

12 January 2017
 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ®

Founder of
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture
Maharishi means “great seer.” A Maharishi is a fully enlightened individual, who not
only lives full human potential in his own life, but has the ability to share it with oth-
ers. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was such a seer—a Master of the field of consciousness,
and of Consciousness-BasedTM technologies for improving life in all areas of human
endeavour.
We express our gratitude to Maharishi for this knowledge of Maharishi Vedic Or-
ganic Agriculture and Environmental Management, knowledge that he has revived
from the Vedic Tradition of India, the longest-standing tradition of Total Knowledge
the world has ever known.
Maharishi has personally guided the unfolding of this knowledge from its very in-
ception. It is our sincere hope that this knowledge will inspire and guide farmers
throughout the world, for it is the farmers who are the true custodians of the health
and wellbeing of their nations. May every farmer learn to farm the fertile field of
consciousness.

Copyright © 2017 Maharishi Vedic University Ltd. All rights reserved worldwide.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction and Overview: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Veda and Natural Law—the Fundamental Field of Intelligence
and Organizing Power in Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Web of Life: the Nature and Dynamics of
Life’s Interconnectedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Consciousness, Awareness, and the Expression of
Intelligence in the Natural Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Enlivening Natural Law: The Essence of Vedic Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A New Paradigm for the Future of Agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Vedic Food for Vedic Consciousness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Procedures:
Agreeing with the Culturing Intelligence of Total Natural Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation and
TM-Sidhi Programmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Developing the Total Brain Functioning and Good Health of the Farmer. . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Developing the Farmer’s Creativity and Clarity of Mind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Developing the Farmer’s Skill in Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Creating an Orderly, Harmonious Society, the Basis of Balance in Nature. . . . . . . . . . . 33
Managing the Agricultural Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya Programme: Applying the Creativity of Natural Law
through Vedic Sounds at Each Stage in the Life of the Plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Understanding and Experiencing the Fundamental Structuring Dynamics of Nature. . . . . . . . 42
Supplementary Vedic Procedures in Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Summary and Conclusions: The Life of the Vedic Farmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Appendix #1—Seven Pillars of a Vedic Agriculture Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Beginning and Managing a Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Project. . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ministry of Agriculture, Global Country of World Peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Appendix #2—Enlarged Charts from the Brochure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Appendix #3—International and Regional Offices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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 Introduction and Overview:
“Agriculture is agreeing with the culturing intelligence of Total Natural Law.”
—Maharishi

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hroughout the ages the best traditions of natural farming have been based on a
mutually beneficial partnership between man and nature. Farmers respected the
sacredness of nature and farmed naturally, in harmony with their environment.
This produced an abundance of food for all to enjoy.
In recent times, however, man has separated himself from nature, both from the nature
which surrounds him, and from his own inner nature. So called “modern” agricultural
technologies—aimed at maximizing productivity and profit—have deepened our sepa-
ration, and infringed upon our fundamental alliance with nature.
This estrangement from nature has disrupted farming practices around the world, bur-
dening the environment with soil erosion, chemical fertilizers, life-damaging pesticides
and herbicides, and genetically modified organisms. The result: Much of the food we
eat today lacks the purity and nutrients we need to stay healthy.
But even beyond reducing the purity and nutrition in our food, today’s prevalent agri-
culture practices have imbalanced the environment, creating droughts and flood con-
ditions, water shortages, and temperature extremes, all of which threaten world food
security.
Today, around the world, responsible voices are calling for a new paradigm in agricul-
ture to restore agricultural practices that create a harmonious and sustainable relation-
ship with nature. How can this be achieved? Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture has
an answer.
Maharishi defines agriculture as “The science and art of agreeing with the culturing intel-
ligence of Total Natural Law in order to create fully nourishing and vital food, the basis of
perfect health for the individual and the nation.”1
The field of Total Natural Law that Maharishi refers to is the most fundamental field
of intelligence in nature, a unified field, the source of both the laws of nature that mod-
ern science investigates, and the source of our own subjective experience of the world
around us. The Unified Field of Total Natural Law is thus the unified basis of both the
subjective and objective means of gaining knowledge.
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This unified field is the source of the laws of nature that govern the growth and evolu-
tion of everything—from the farmer and his crops, to the soil and the weather; from
the earth’s entire ecosystem to the ever-expanding universe.

In Maharishi Vedic Science, this unified source of natural law can be easily and directly
experienced by anyone in the silent, settled state of their own awareness, as a self-suffi-
cient, all-pervading field of pure consciousness.

When the farmer effortlessly experiences the unified field of all the laws of nature
through regular practice of two of the essential technologies of consciousness used
in Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture—the Transcendental Meditation® technique
and its advanced practice the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi® programme, includ-
ing Yogic Flying®—he enriches his own creativity and enlivens the creativity of nature.
This is the key to the success of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture—it awakens
the total potential of natural law present within every aspect of farming, including the
farmer himself.

This means that the source of all the laws of nature and their organizing power is within
the farmer himself, in his awareness, and by establishing this level of nature’s function-
ing fully, in his own awareness, the farmer can inspire the laws of nature to work for
him.

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture also makes use of Vedic Sound—the sounds of
natural law, the resonances of the laws of nature—to enliven the inner consciousness
and intelligence of plants at critical stages of their development. This creates a plant full
of the vitality and nourishment of nature’s complete intelligence.

The technologies of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture balance both individual and
collective life in such a manner that nature becomes balanced and supportive, and this,
in turn, helps create balance in human life. It is a progressive cycle of mutual support.

Farmers following the principles and practices of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture
and Environmental Management enjoy an intimate relationship with the soil, the seed,
the crop, and even the weather, to produce healthy food through much less effort and
hard work than is necessary through contemporary agricultural practices. Nature be-
comes the silent farmer, the silent supporter of human efforts. This is the ideal of farm-
ing, where human life and nature nourish each other to bring life to fullness.

Through Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture, farmers play a parental role for the
whole nation. They bring everyone food that is pure, fresh, fully ripened, and lively with
Total Natural Law. This quality of food supports the development of a perfectly bal-
anced and healthy physiology, capable of living full human potential in higher states of
consciousness, or enlightenment. Maharishi calls it Vedic food for Vedic consciousness.

The following pages present a deeper understanding of the key principles and practices
of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture and Environmental Management.
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 Veda and Natural Law—
the Fundamental Field of Intelligence
and Organizing Power in Nature
Nature reveals her secrets only to those who approach her
with sympathy, respect, and understanding.

M aharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture (MVOA) is a new paradigm in agriculture,

agriculture in agreement with the culturing intelligence of Total Natural Law. To-
tal Natural Law is the unified field of intelligence at the basis of nature’s functioning,
which has inherent within it the total knowledge and organizing power at the source of
all the Laws of Nature. The “culturing intelligence” of this field governs creation, order
and evolution throughout the universe.
To agree with the “culturing intelligence of Total Natural Law” means to create a fun-
damental unity between man and nature at the deepest level of nature’s functioning.
It is a unity, a cooperation, between human intelligence and nature’s intelligence. Ma-
harishi Vedic Organic Agriculture creates a dynamic link between these two, in such
a manner that man and nature become parts of a greater wholeness. The two form an
integrated, holistic system, an integrated web of life.
From the perspective of modern science, the expression “natural law” means all the laws
of nature discovered by the modern sciences—physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics,
etc.—including the laws that structure human life at the individual and social levels.
“Total Natural Law” refers to the integrated, balanced, and holistic source of all these
laws of nature, at their most fundamental, unmanifest level—the unified field.
In the past 200 years, modern science has systematically revealed deeper layers of nature’s
functioning. Progressive discoveries by such leading scientists as Heisenberg, Schrod-
inger, Dirac, Pauli, Planck, Einstein, Feynman, Hawking, Weinberg and ­Hagelin in the
fields of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, string theory, M-theory, quantum
gravity and many others, have revealed more and more fundamental levels of nature’s
functioning, where all the diverse forces and particles are continually found to be more
and more unified, ultimately leading to one unified theory of all the laws of nature.
Modern science has thus identified a single, unified, holistic, self-interacting, self-refer-
ral field at the basis of all the immense diversity expressed in creation. This field is the
“home of all the laws of nature,” the total potential of natural law, the ultimate source
of everything.
The knowledge of Veda and the Vedic Literature (Veda is a Sanskrit word meaning
complete knowledge) as brought to light and understood from a scientific perspective
by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his Vedic Science and Technology, also identifies a single,
self-referral, unified source of all intelligence and orderliness in nature. In Vedic Sci-
ence, this source of orderliness and intelligence is understood and experienced as the
most fundamental level of human consciousness, our own Self.
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These combined understandings of modern science and Vedic Science present the
­Unified Field of Natural Law as the unified basis for both our subjective experience in
life, and for the objective reality of nature surrounding us. Most importantly, with the
Consciousness-Based technologies of Maharishi Vedic Science, it is possible for man
to actually experience and live the unified basis of nature’s functioning.
In Vedic terminology the word for the Unified Field of Natural Law is Atma. In his
Vedic Science, Maharishi explains that, since the essential nature of consciousness is to
be conscious, or awake, this silent field of the Total Potential of Natural Law, or Atma,
is conscious of itself—awake to itself. This nature of consciousness to know itself creates
relationships within itself, or reverberations within the silent state of consciousness.
These reverberations, or lively internal dynamics of Atma, are called Veda.
Veda is the complete embodiment of natural law, the fundamental intelligence and
organizing power of nature, supporting every aspect of life and living. In Maharishi’s
Vedic Science, Veda is the intelligence that creates and maintains the physical creation.
It is the Vedic expression for what modern science refers to as the laws of nature. And
Veda is the reverberation of our own consciousness.

Thus the description of the laws of nature, and of their progressively more unified na-
ture from the perspective of modern science, and the description of these laws and their
unification from the perspective of Maharishi’s Vedic Science, are equivalent. However,
Maharishi Vedic Science brings the objectivity of modern science to its fulfilment by
unfolding the complete range of knowledge—Total Knowledge—which includes both
the objective and subjective spheres of life. Maharishi Vedic Science thus creates a link
between what we experience in the objective world around us, and our own inner expe-
riences, perceptions, and intuition—that is, how we process and understand that world.
Vedic Science makes modern science relevant to our lives and ensures that science
­unfolds in a life-supporting manner, in accord with the source of natural law within the
consciousness of mankind.

The Unified Field Chart for Agriculture, presented in the next pages, serves as a visual
educational tool to clearly illustrate the common source of physical creation (seen on
the right side of the chart) and the source of our subjective experiences (seen on the left
side of the chart). On the right we see expressed the world of fundamental forces and
subatomic particles. These interact to become atoms, molecules, plants, animals, man,
extending to the whole environment. The left side of the chart presents our subjective
lives, including our thoughts, feelings, and pure consciousness as the full range of our
awareness that we experience in the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and
TM-Sidhi programme.

The right side of the chart is divided into three fundamental streams, illustrating how
nature sequentially unfolds. These streams originate in the Unified Field of Natural
Law, or the Unified Field of consciousness, where the nature of consciousness to know
itself creates the three fundamental values of knower, process of knowing and known.

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Consciousness, knowing itself, is by nature all three of these values. These three funda-
mental aspects of the nature of reality are the blueprint for their expression in the field
of agriculture as the grower, the process of growing and the grown. These three organ-
izing principles unfold vertically.
The Grower is elaborated through personal qualities, education, and management prac-
tices, all leading to the creation of agriculture products and their distribution to create
abundance in society. The Process of Growing is unfolded as soil, soil process, climate
and weather, which support crop and livestock production, again leading to agriculture
products and their distribution. The Grown is elaborated as crop and livestock genetics,
physiology, crop types, and finally again, as agriculture products. From this visual struc-
ture we can understand that agriculture develops in a unified and sequential manner
from its structure within the Unified Field.
On the left side of the chart we see the full range of our conscious awareness. Each level
of subjective experience, moving upward vertically, is more expressed or defined in its
values as it unfolds from the more abstract values that precede it. Each subjective level
has a correspondence to a level of physical values in the world around us.
The Unified Field Chart for agriculture allows us to see, in one visual field, the whole
discipline of agriculture, from both the objective perspective and the subjective per-
spective, both vertically for its development from subtle to gross, and horizontally in its
comparison and parallelism of subjective and objective as expressed in the Grower, the
Process of Growing and the Grown. Maharishi saw this comprehensive perspective as
essential, as expressed in the following quote:

Without reference to the transcendental basis of life, all knowledge of life always
remains incomplete—without reference to wholeness, parts will always remain
undefined. 2
This singular understanding and experience of a unified source of both the objective
world and the subjective world of our inner thoughts and feelings, provides us with the
knowledge and methodology to both understand the laws of nature, and to make them
lively within ourselves and within the environment. We have simply to enliven Veda or
natural law in our awareness, and we automatically enliven it everywhere, because the
basis of our own awareness is the same as the basis of the whole physical creation, the
Unified Field.
This discovery has tremendous practical application in the field of agriculture, as it gives
us a direct means to comprehensively enliven the laws of nature responsible for plant
growth and development through the Maharishi Vedic Procedures of Farming and
Environmental Management.
This is why agriculture that “agrees” with the culturing intelligence of Total Natural
Law is the goal of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture. By creating an intimate, per-
sonal, and interactive relationship with nature, Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture

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 unites man and nature—two intelligent, self-organized systems—in a harmonious,
open ­­relationship with each other. This unity is a direct and real experience of the ­Vedic
farmer as he continuously cultures his awareness and his environment through the
­Maharishi Vedic Procedures of Farming.
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture adds the field of consciousness, the field of Total
Natural Law, to every aspect of agriculture. This common foundation is what connects
everything, and is therefore the means to enrich the farmer, the soil, the plant, the seed,
etc. It takes us well beyond conventional and even organic agriculture practices. 
Many of the truly great scientists, the ones who have stood out over the ages, have
expressed this type of personal relationship with the natural laws they studied. They
pointed out the universal correlation and harmony between our human experience and
the harmony that is ever-present in nature. Albert Einstein spoke of a sympathetic un-
derstanding with nature, a relationship with nature that came straight from the heart:

Only intuition resting on sympathetic understanding can lead to [the discovery of

these laws] … the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or programme,
but straight from the heart.3

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 The Web of Life: the Nature and Dynamics of
Life’s Interconnectedness
“Each factor is meaningful in the tangled web of interrelationships, but ceases to
have any meaning when isolated from the whole. In spite of this, individual fac-
tors are extracted and studied in isolation all the time. Which is to say that research
attempts to find meaning in something from which it has wrested all meaning.” 4
—Masanobu Fukuoka

I t is not only in physics that science is discovering the unification of subjectivity and
objectivity at the source of the discipline. In every sphere of the sciences, from math-
ematics to sociology, as science moves forward it comes closer and closer to the realm of
consciousness, or subjectivity. An interaction between the consciousness of the scientist
and the object of study is found to be more and more relevant and common.
The solely objective approach to science is heading for a new frontier, discovering its
basis in the pure subjectivity of the Unified Field of Natural Law. As the theories
of each scientific discipline progress and refine, they reach towards the field of con-
sciousness. These new theories, continually reinforced and expanded by experimental
research, add understanding to our Consciousness-Based approach to agriculture. In
MVOA we want to interact with plants on the level of their consciousness, the founda-
tion and control point of their physical existence. The fact that plants are living beings,
which exhibit awareness and interact with their environment, is a unique insight and
focal point of Vedic Agriculture.
One of the most important understandings that we have from Maharishi Vedic Science
comes from Âk Veda, the most basic and ancient of the Vedic sources of knowledge:

ऋ॒चो अ॒क्षरे॑ पर॒मे व्यो॑म॒न्

यस्मि॑न् दे॒वा अधि॒ विश्वे॑ निषे॒दुः
Âicho akshare parame vyoman
yasmin devå adhi vishve nishedu˙
Maharishi has explained this verse as “knowledge is structured in consciousness.” The
quality and validity of our knowledge is directly dependent upon the quality of our
consciousness. As we grow in consciousness, our perception of deeper levels of nature’s
functioning continues to grow. Because deeper levels of nature are more unified, our
perception and understanding become more holistic and unified, and therefore the very
way we interpret the world around us changes. This is the coming together of subjectiv-
ity and objectivity in the life of the scientist.
More and more scientists are discovering and realizing that nature is not a mechanis-
tic, reductionist system; it is not a corpse to be dissected and analyzed, part by part. It
is rather a living, intelligent, holistic system, a web of life, made up of self-organized,
intelligent, communicating systems and subsystems that together, at each successive

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level of environmental organization, create a wholeness that is more than the sum of
the parts. What is happening at the forefront of science is a discovery of the life of the
whole, made up of the life of the parts, mutually interacting, mutually communicating,
with the intelligence of the whole guiding and influencing all of the parts. This is why
Maharishi referred to Vedic Agriculture as Brahma Vidya, or the knowledge of total-
ity. It is the knowledge of consciousness as it is expressed in the environment. It is the
fullest expression of consciousness, a wholeness that is more than the sum of the parts.
More specifically, when the parts of any system come together to create a whole, the
intelligence and organizing power of that whole is more than the sum of the intelli-
gences of all the parts. This means that something new is created in that wholeness, a
new behaviour, new abilities, a new life. The whole has a new life that’s more than the
life of the parts.
And the amazing thing is that when the parts come together to make such a whole, if
they do so in a coherent, mutually interacting manner, then each part becomes connect-
ed to the intelligence of the whole, each part has access to the total intelligence of the
whole, and the total intelligence of the whole has the ability to coordinate, guide and
support the behaviour of each individual part. A beautiful, nourishing relationship is
created between the whole and the parts. Nature functions through this relationship of
the mutually interacting intelligence and organizing power of the parts and the whole.
As an example in our own human body, the DNA, located in the core of the cell, is
a self-organized, self-sufficient, intelligent system. It maintains its own integrity in a
fluctuating environment. It is influenced by that environment, reacts to the environ-
ment, and modulates its activity accordingly. But the DNA is only a part of the nucleus
of the cell, which itself is a self-sufficient, self-organized and self-referral system. The
nucleus is again just a part of the whole cell, which is a system.
The cell is part of a tissue, the tissue is part of an organ, and the organ is part of the en-
tire body, which is an intelligent part of its environment. At each level of organization,
the system is self-sufficient and self-regulating. And yet each system is always part of a
greater system, a greater whole. Being part of a whole, it partakes of the intelligence of
that whole, with which it interacts and by whose intelligence it is directed.
The diagramme next page, showing the plant nutrient cycle,5 is another example — of
an infinite number of possible examples — of the intricate interconnectedness of eve-
rything in the environment, from the microscopic to the macroscopic. There are more
micro-organisms interacting in one handful of soil than there are people on earth, and
they are interacting more harmoniously than their human counterparts!
Like this, the entire environment from the local to the universal is a vast web of inter-
acting, intelligent systems. Everything is connected to everything else, and everything
influences everything else. This concept of a unified connectedness at the basis of all life
is found in every culture of the world, in every spiritual tradition, as well as now being
the forefront of the modern sciences. It is an extremely valuable understanding in Vedic
Agriculture.
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The author and statesman Goethe wrote:
Life as a whole expresses itself as a force that is not to be contained within any one
part. The things we call the parts in every living being are so inseparable from the
whole that they may be understood only in and in relation to the whole.

Consciousness, Awareness, and the Expression of Intelligence

in the Natural Environment
यो जागार॒ तमृचः कामयन्ते
Yo jågåra tam ®icha˙ kåmayante
He whose consciousness is awake, the impulses of intelligence (knowledge) seek him out
(Âk Veda, 5.44.14)

T o understand consciousness, awareness, and the expression of intelligence in the

natural environment, the following quotes provide a more detailed look at some
examples of plant awareness and intelligence, to expand our appreciation of our neigh-
bours in the plant kingdom.
Plants see:
Plants are acutely aware of the world around them through their sense of sight.
Plants see you. In fact, plants monitor their visible environment all the time.
Plants see if you come near them; they know when you stand over them. They even
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 know if you’re wearing a blue or a red shirt. They know if you’ve painted your house
or if you’ve moved their pots from one side of the living room to the other … they
see light in many ways and colours that we can only imagine. Plants see the same
ultraviolet light that gives us sunburns and infrared light that heats us up. Plants
can tell when there’s very little light, like from a candle, or when it’s the middle of
the day, or when the sun is about to set into the horizon. Plants know if the light
is coming from the left, the right, or from above. They know if another plant has
grown over them, blocking their light. And they know how long the lights have
been on.6

Plants smell:
Plants obviously emit odours that animals and human beings are attracted to, but
they also sense their own odours and those of neighbouring plants. Plants know
when their fruit is ripe, when their neighbour has been cut by a gardener’s shears, or
when their neighbour is being eaten by a ravenous bug; they smell it. Some plants
can even differentiate the smell of a tomato from the smell of wheat. … A plant’s
… sense of smell is highly sensitive and communicates a great deal of information
to the living organism.7

Plants process information:

A unique part of the plant root, the root apices, are a combination of sensitive fin-
ger, perceiving sensory organ, and brain neuron. Each root hair, rootlet, and root
section contains an apex; every root mass has millions, even billions, of them. For
example, a single rye plant has more than 13 million rootlets with a combined
length of 680 miles. Each of the rootlets are covered with root hairs, over 14 bil-
lion of them, with a combined length of 6,600 miles. Every rootlet, every root
hair, has at its end a root apex. Every root apex acts as a neuronal organ in the
root system. In contrast, the human brain has approximately 86 billion neurons,
about 16 billion of which are in the cerebral cortex. Plants with larger root systems,
and more root hairs, can have considerably more “brain neurons” than the 14 bil-
lion contained in rye plants; they can even rival the human brain in the number
of neurons. And when you look at the interconnected network of plant roots and
mycorrhizal mycelia in any discrete ecosystem, you are looking at a neural network
much larger than any individual human has ever possessed.8

And plants “remember,” for a really long time!

Svetlana Yashina and her team of Russian scientists regenerated a plant using
fruit tissue that had been buried in the Siberian permafrost for over thirty thou-
sand years! This plant, which has miraculously been given new life, is a species of
campion (Silene). And, most exciting of all, after a year had passed, this lovely
flowering plant showed that it was fertile, able to bear viable seeds. It was found
in a stash of plants and fruit in the burrow of an Ice Age squirrel 125 feet below
the present surface of the permafrost.9
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Plants defend themselves:
A plant, if attacked by a certain insect predator which threatens its existence, will im-
mediately exude volatiles that are effective in repelling that particular predator pest; or
the plant, using chemical signaling, will actually call other insects or predators of the
attacking insect to remove it.

Plants continually monitor every aspect of their environment:

Spatial orientation; presence, absence, and identity of neighbours; disturbance;
competition; predation, whether microbial, insect, or animal; composition of at-
mosphere; composition of soil; water presence, location, and amount; degree of in-
coming light; propagation, protection, and support of offspring (yes, they recognize
kin); communications from other plants in their ecorange; biological oscillations,
including circadian; and not only their own health but the health of the ecorange
in which they live.10
The new view … is that plants are dynamic and highly sensitive organisms, actively
and competitively foraging for limited resources both above and below ground;
that they are also organisms which accurately compute their circumstances, using
sophisticated cost-benefit analysis; and that they take defined actions to mitigate
and control diffuse environmental insults. Moreover, plants are also capable of
a refined recognition of self and non-self and this leads to territorial behaviour.
This new view considers plants as information-processing organisms with complex
communication throughout the individual plant … Besides abundant interactions
with the environment, plants interact with other communicative systems such as
other plants, fungi, nematodes, bacteria, viruses, insects, and predatory animals.11
How do we understand and experience this beautiful, vast, and intricate display of
intelligence and awareness in plants? According to Maharishi Vedic Science, when ex-
amined closely, the nature of the Unified Field of Natural Law is revealed to be a field
of pure consciousness, pure intelligence. From this we understand consciousness as the
basis of everything that exists, and we put forth this understanding on the basis of the
latest theories and experiments in current mathematics and physics, and on the basis
of the personal experience of those who practice the technologies of Maharishi Vedic
Science.
Since the most fundamental property of consciousness is self-awareness, and since con-
sciousness is the foundation of all living systems, all living systems must be self-aware.
The most fundamental application of this self-awareness is that all living systems or
entities are aware of the difference between themselves and their environment. This
ability to perceive and differentiate is thus a defining quality in all living things.
Maharishi explains this basic principle as follows:
We see things around us exist. We also see that things around us change and evolve.
We also see that there is order in evolution—an apple seed will only grow into
an apple tree. Thus it is obvious that existence is endowed with the quality of
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 i­ntelligence—existence breathes life by virtue of intelligence. By virtue of intel-
ligence everything in creation is aware of itself, is aware of its own existence—is
conscious of itself, and at the same time it is aware of its environment, it is con-
scious of its environment. It is self-referral (it knows itself ), and it is object refer-
ral (it knows itself as the object of knowing). Thus existence is intelligence; it is
consciousness. Consciousness is the existence of everything, and consciousness is the
intelligence of everything.12
The capacity to be aware of self, to differentiate self from non-self, and to take ap-
propriate actions to maintain self when challenged by non-self, has traditionally been
attributed mainly to humans and animals. Now these qualities are seen as all pervasive
throughout existence, in every entity that has the quality of self-awareness.
Any entity or system has to be able to evaluate whether an element in the environment
is helpful or harmful to its continued existence, and on the basis of that evaluation,
make a decision as to how it will respond. This quality of evaluation and decision-
making is an expression of the property of intellect or discrimination that is present in
every self-organized system. In the process of making any evaluation and decision, the
system has to process a series of inputs and follow a path of action in its evaluation to
either incorporate the external influence into the system, or exclude it, which indicates
the presence of a flow of information characteristic of the quality of mind.
So every living thing, every self-organized system, by which we mean a system capa-
ble of maintaining its own integrity in the midst of its greater environment, exhibits
the properties of consciousness and intelligence, as expressed through the presence of
mind, intellect, and ego, or self sense. These three values are functional values of intel-
ligence itself; they are not limited to the usual sense of how we consider them in hu-
man beings. They are fundamental principles in nature: principles of self-knowledge or
self-awareness characteristic of ego; the principle of discrimination, characteristic of
intellect; and the flow of information, characteristic of mind.
Furthermore, all self-organized systems learn from their interactions and experiences.
They retain what they learn and build and innovate on those experiences. From their
growing experiences, they evolve more complex behaviours, and even more flexible,
resilient, and adaptable forms. Even the DNA molecule itself, if it suffers some damage
to its structure, will evaluate the dam-
age and instigate the necessary repairs
to maintain its integrity.
Every part of the environment is con-
tinually communicating with every
other part. Communication is an ex-
change of intelligence, it’s a connection
of minds, intellects, and egos through
perceptive and communicative mecha-
nisms. As we shall see in the next sec-
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tion, Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture locates these elements of mind, intellect,
and ego, along with the five other basic structuring dynamics fundamental to all nature,
as being equally present in human life, in plants and animals, and in fact in all environ-
mental systems. Mind, intellect, and ego are the subjective part of the eight fundamen-
tal building blocks or organisational principles at the foundation of natural law.
Although these qualities may be expressed in slightly different ways in different species,
the essential character of mind, intellect, and ego are present throughout nature. So the
intelligence of the plant communicates with the intelligence of man and vice versa. The
mind of the plant communicates with the mind of man. There is always an exchange
between like elements. Our environment is alive, intelligent, aware, and communica-
tive; we are part of that living whole.
Maharishi brings out this point vividly in his appreciation of the link between indi-
vidual life and cosmic life, when he says that even plants communicate with the whole
universe.
The silently pulsating intelligence of the plant may be understood to be pulsating on
the most fundamental level of existence of the Pulse of the Universe. This one uni-
versal Pulse of Creation—the level of Total Natural Law—maintains connected-
ness of the intelligence of the WHOLENESS of infinity with the intelligence of
every point of infinity—every point of creation. This is how every point of creation
is connected with the holistic intelligence of the universe.13
This holistic intelligence of the universe is what we call Veda, Total Natural Law. There
is a continuous flow of interactive communication in all natural environments, from all
members of the ecosystem to each other, and to and from the holistic environment in
which they are embedded. There is a language of nature, much older than our own, and
that language is the Vedic language, the language of natural law.
In summary, we can say that consciousness is at the basis of all life, not just of man.
Plants have consciousness, animals have consciousness, the entire environment is con-
sciousness. This single understanding gives the Vedic farmer the ability to work with all
of nature from its common basis, the field of consciousness. Because plants have con-
sciousness, or awareness, they are sensitive to any reverberation of consciousness. This is
why they respond to the Consciousness-Based Vedic technologies we use in Maharishi
Vedic Agriculture and Environment Management. As Maharishi expressed it:
The extreme sensitivity, receptivity, and intuition of the plant kingdom may not be
known and appreciated by many. Much is known, much is documented; but there
are still many secrets of nature’s functioning available only to the enlightened of
every generation.14

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 Enlivening Natural Law:
The Essence of Vedic Farming
“The more natural law is enlivened, the more effortless and abundant will be the
process of agriculture, because success in agriculture fundamentally depends on the
support of Nature.”15
— Maharishi

M aharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture projects will utilize the most effective tech-
niques of sustainable, organic agriculture suitable to the local environment. How-
ever, the essence of Vedic Agriculture is not specific methods of farming. Merely using
organic methods is not enough for gaining the full knowledge and support of natural
law, which is essential in Vedic Agriculture.
The knowledge of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture is universal knowledge, ap-
plicable at all times, in all locations, in all environments, and in all traditions of farm-
ing. This is because it is knowledge of the very foundation of the creative process in
nature. Farming methods vary according to local climate and geography, which in turn
are based on the expression of
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 The real and most fundamental concern in Vedic Agriculture is how lively, bal-
anced, and supportive is the creative intelligence of natural law in the farming
environment. In Vedic Agriculture we are concerned with that agency, with those
laws of nature which transform the soil and air and water into fruits and vegeta-
bles. We are concerned with creativity, and, most essentially, we are concerned with
pure Creative Intelligence, which is at the basis of, and responsible for, the balanced
and complete expression of all expressed creativity. We want to be sure this agency
remains strong and comprehensive, and is not weakened in any way. We want to
be sure that all the forces responsible for successful agriculture are timely and sup-
portive. We want to work intimately and directly with nature itself.16
This is what will bring together all the needed factors such as sun and rain, tem-
perature, water, plant health, seed vitality, etc., which must be well coordinated for
successful farming. We want all these factors to be supportive to our efforts.17

A New Paradigm for the Future of Agriculture

“We can’t solve today’s problems by using the same kind of thinking
we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein

M odern conventional agriculture has certainly made progress in increasing yields

and lowering costs, but these advances have greatly marginalized food quality and
vitality. The essential purpose of food production to create and sustain health has been
sacrificed. In today’s industrial agricultural practices, the production and sale of agricul-
tural products has become focused on appearance, cost, convenience, mass production,
packaging, and marketing. Fruits and vegetables are bred, manipulated, or genetically
altered for mass production, shipping and storage. They are harvested long before they
are ripe and have developed their full nutritive value. Unripe foods are then chemically
or unnaturally ripened at the convenience of the market. In animal husbandry, farms
have become factories, with no regard for the feelings of animals as sentient beings.
Everywhere there is a critical loss of focus on food vitality and nutrition.
Beyond this loss of focus on nutrition, there is a loss of a vision of the concept of sus-
tainability. Each new agriculture technology seems to lead to the next problem. For
example, the extensive use of chemical fertilizers has lead to the sterilization of the
soils, with a loss of essential micro-organisms. This has lead to the salinization of the
soils, with the consequent current efforts to genetically modify crops to be able to thrive
in salty soils. This can lead to the disruption of the human metabolism of such foods,
plus the compensating reactions from the environment such as the creation of super
weeds and pests, or new organizations of the microbes and micoflora, all with uncertain
results as to where all this is going. Human intelligence is trying to take on the role of
nature’s intelligence without having gained the billion-year-old, comprehensive vision
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Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture offers solutions to this modern agricultural ca-
lamity by supporting and extending the laudable practices of organic farming to en-
compass the full range of life, where the quality of consciousness of the farmer and his
subtle relationship to his crops and the environment are taken into account. Life is
holistic. The full range of life must be taken into account in every farming activity. With
Maharishi Vedic Agriculture, nature will become the silent farmer, the silent supporter
of all the farmer’s efforts. Human intelligence will become attuned with nature’s intel-
ligence.

Vedic Food for Vedic Consciousness

“Mind depends on the quality of food we eat.” 18
— Indian countryside saying

H ardly a day passes without another book or research study being published on the
effect of food on health. The ultimate goal of Maharishi Vedic Agriculture is to
produce a quality of food that will nourish the human physiology to its highest level of
development. This quality of food Maharishi calls Vedic food for Vedic consciousness. This
refers to food in which the knowledge, structure, and functioning of natural law itself,
from its deepest level, has been imbibed in the food to a point where the food is capable
of bringing this value of nature’s intelligence to those who partake of it. This quality of
food has its maximum value in creating a balanced, vital, and healthy physiology.
More specifically, the intention in creating Vedic food is to create Amrit Bhojan, real
nectar food—food in which the full, traditional values of purity, taste, potency, unctu-
ousness, nutritive value, specific actions, and quality have been fully restored to their
highest value. These are the values that have been identified by the ancient Vedic sci-
ence of Ayurveda, the science of health and longevity, to be essential in our foods.
The purpose is to create food that can be easily digested to its most refined value, nour-
ishing the body with Ojas and Soma—the finest end products of perfectly digested food
according to Vedic Science—capable of enlivening and nurturing all the intelligences
in the human physiology.
Of particular importance in creating Vedic food of this quality is the technologies
­employed in the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya ProgrammeSM. Maharishi Vedic
Agriculture Yagyas are the formalized application of specific Vedic recitations to pro-
duce specific effects. This programme is applied in the field of agriculture to enhance
crop production, nutrition, and food vitality. ­Maharishi worked for over 10 years to
revive this specific application of the science of Vedic Yagya to create the Maharishi
Vedic Agriculture Yagya Programme and Procedures of Farming. He considered it one
of the highest applications of Vedic knowledge.
To understand the goal of Vedic Agriculture to produce the highest quality of food, we
must consider what food is. Maharishi has said that “food is that experience which sat-
isfies.”19 This is the broadest definition of food. Seen from a more focused perspective,
food is simply that which nourishes.
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More technically, food is the structural and functional intelligence of nature, which
when eaten and properly digested, creates, enhances, and maintains the structural and
functional intelligence in our bodies.

All the vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, etc. that we normally associate with
our food are simply units of chemical and biological intelligence. They feed the chemi-
cal and biological intelligence of our bodies. When the structural and functional intel-
ligence of the food is in accord with nature’s perfect expression, then the perfection of
nature is brought into our physiology through that type of food.

This happens when the particular qualities of Vedic food—pure, fresh, fully ripened,
and holistically grown in accord with all the laws of nature—are present in the food.
This last quality—grown in accord with all the laws of nature—represents the most
important application of the Vedic knowledge in agriculture.

Maharishi emphasizes this deeper value of food when he says:

The nutritional value of food is traditionally measured by analysing its chemical
constituents (proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc.) It is assumed that the nu-
tritional, or health, value results from the measurable composition of substances
only. This viewpoint, limited to the material aspect, overlooks the fact that all liv-
ing things are part of an integrated wholeness, an organizing intelligence that
promotes the evolution of all life, which is expressed in the growth, development,
reproduction, and characteristic transformations during the life cycle of all living
organisms.20

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Why is Vedic food so important?
Let us look first to the countryside of India where there is a common saying:

Mind depends on the quality of food one eats.

Taken to the deepest level of understanding, the research of Dr. Tony Nader, MD, PhD,
MARR, the foremost scientist in applying Vedic knowledge in this modern age, has
shown us that the organizing power of natural law, or the Vedic Devata in Vedic ter-
minology, is really a living biological intelligence within us. The Ramayana, one of the
ancient Vedic epics, tells us exactly why Vedic food is so critical:

‘The food that a man eats, his Devata also eat.’

The food that a man eats, his Devata also eat. This means that the food we eat nourishes
more than just the surface, physical aspect of life. It nourishes and supports the biologi-
cal intelligence (Devata) and its functioning in our physiology.
Thus there is a direct correlation between the quality of the food we eat and the quality
of functioning of our mind and physiology, both on a structural and functional level.
The functioning of our brain, our heart, our liver, our intestines, our emotions, our in-
telligence, everything about our awareness and physiology, is influenced by the quality
of food we eat. For these reasons, Maharishi felt that pure food production should be
given the highest priority by the government of every nation.
How then do we create Vedic food?

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 Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Procedures:
Agreeing with the Culturing Intelligence
of Total Natural Law
The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme

T he strength of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture lies in both its theory and
practice. The perfect theory of a complete system of agriculture is realized only
through its application in practice. This means that Total Natural Law must become a
living reality for the farmer, his crops, and the environment as a whole.
Maharishi Vedic Agriculture provides two main technologies for enlivening natural law
in the farmer and in the environment: the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi
programme, and the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya ProgrammeTM).
Because these two Consciousness-Based technologies are so fundamental to the prac-
tice of Vedic Agriculture, it is important to understand them thoroughly, and specifi-
cally to examine, in detail, the effects of these practices on the farmer and his profession.
Dr. Michael Dillbeck, lead editor of the eight volumes of research on the Transcenden-
tal Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme, reprinted from leading scientific journals,
has described Maharishi’s techniques for developing consciousness, and their results in
the following manner:
Transcendental Meditation is a simple, natural, effortless mental technique,
practiced 15 to 20 minutes twice daily, which allows the mind to naturally
­settle to increasingly silent and more orderly levels of awareness, and ex-
perience the simplest, most expanded state of awareness, Transcendental
­Consciousness. Here consciousness experiences itself, and becomes identi-
fied with the Unified Field of all the laws of nature. This experience is char-
acterized by a unique quality of restful alertness, which promotes optimal,
coherent brain functioning, integrated with efficient and healthy physiologi-
cal functioning, along with extraordinary effectiveness in action, supported
by Natural Law itself.
The TM-Sidhi programme is an advanced meditation practice that cultures
the ability to think and act from the unified level of consciousness, Transcen-
dental Consciousness. Yogic Flying, an aspect of the TM-Sidhi programme,
creates perfect mind-body coordination, and is associated with maximum
coherence, or orderliness, in brain functioning. Even the first stage of Yogic
Flying, in which the body lifts up in short hops, produces inner bliss for the
individual and generates coherence and harmony in the environment.21
Over 600 scientific research studies have been conducted worldwide on the benefits of
the Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness for the farmer, society, and the ­greater
environment. These benefits are found in the areas of developing maximum brain

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c­ oherence and functioning, improved mind-body coordination, improved health, im-
proved creativity and clarity of mind, enhanced skill in action, improved inter-personal
relationships, and a harmonizing influence on the society and the environment.
In addition, research findings confirm that group or collective practice of the Tran-
scendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme creates an even greater influence of
orderliness and harmony in society, which in turn promotes greater balance in nature.
The practice of Transcendental Meditation has been learned by over 5 million people
worldwide.
From the extensive benefits in all areas of life, which are detailed below, we can un-
derstand why the experience of transcending, easily and naturally achieved during the
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme, cannot be over-emphasized in
the practice of Vedic Agriculture.
Transcending could easily be considered the most precious and beneficial human expe-
rience because it develops the enhanced perception and refinement of physiology that
are needed to develop higher states of consciousness, the basis of a successful and happy
life. Transcending develops a deep inter-connectedness with our fellow men and our
environment, an inter-connectedness that is vital in Vedic Agriculture.
Transcending opens up new perceptual experiences, new levels of awareness, new lev-
els of feeling and intuition. It takes us to the heart and soul of things, and we perceive
their inner creative essence—those reverberations, those deep impulses of creative in-
telligence from which the object itself is constituted. We literally learn to see the inner
Being, the inner Self of nature. This intimacy opens a deeper appreciation and com-
munication with deeper levels of our natural environment, where everything is united.
This brings the farmer into a relationship with his crops, and with the environment
that is creating those crops. It allows the farmer’s inner desires, feelings, and needs to
be communicated to the natural world around him, and gives the natural world the
opportunity to respond favourably to the farmer, because of the unified, supportive re-
lationship that is connecting the two.
Masanobu Fukuoka, the Japanese pioneer and visionary in the field of natural farming,
who revolutionized rice farming with fully sustainable, natural methods, expresses this
idea:
We must look carefully at a rice plant and listen to what it tells us. Knowing what
it says, we are able to observe the feelings of the rice as we grow it. However, to
“look at” or “scrutinize” rice does not mean to view rice as the object, to observe or
think about rice. One should essentially put oneself in the place of the rice. In so do-
ing, the self looking upon the rice plant vanishes. This is what it means to “see and
not examine and in not examining to know.” Those who have not the slightest idea
what I mean by this need only devote themselves to their rice plants.22

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Renown India botanist and plant researcher Jagadish Chandra Bose expresses the same
experience when he says,
We should abandon all our preconceptions, most of which are afterward found to
be absolutely groundless and contrary to facts. The final appeal must be made to
the plant itself and no evidence should be accepted unless it bears the plant’s own
signature.23

And again, biographer Evelyn Fox Keller, writing about Nobel Laureate Barbara Mc-
Clintock and her revolutionary research on corn genes and their interaction with the
environment, quoted McClintock as saying that one must understand
how [a plant] grows, understand its parts, understand when something is going
wrong with it. It isn’t just a piece of plastic, it’s something that is constantly be-
ing affected by its environment … You need to have a feeling for each individual
plant. No two plants are exactly alike. They’re all different, you have to know that
difference.
Keller further quoted McClintock as saying:
I start with the seedling, and I don’t want to leave it. I don’t feel I really know the
story if I don’t watch the plant all the way along. So I know every plant in the field.
I know them intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.24
This is also expressed beautifully in the following quote from one of the Indian Epics,
the Råmacharitamånasa:

मागें बारिद देहिं जल रामचंद्र के राज।

Råmacharitamånasa, Uttara Ka∆da 23
The clouds poured forth showers for the mere asking in the kingdom of Ramachandra.
Maharishi commented on this verse in the following manner:
In the Reign of Rām, [a time when Total Natural Law is most lively on earth],
anyone who requires water just needs to ask “Please, give me water,” and there
comes the shower of rain; the shower of rain comes from the need of the individual,
not only the need of society. The need of society is implied in this, but … [the rain
comes from] the desire of the individual. The individual desires, looks up: “Water,
please, sky! Rām Brahm, I need water. This is the crop that I’m going to grow, and
I need water, in this month, in five weeks, in six weeks, in ten weeks. Water is my
desire.” And his desire is fulfilled by the omnipresent administration of Rājā Rām,
Brahm [Total Natural Law].25
The Vedic farmer develops a particular quality of knowing—direct knowing, direct per-
ception—and it is through this more enlightened perception that he gains more com-
plete knowledge of anything, the deeper truth behind anything. It is with this highly
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developed perception that, with his intuitive insight, he can look into any situation in
his agriculture project or farm, and know exactly what to do, when to do it, and how to
do it. He just knows, from his deep understanding of how nature itself is functioning.
By learning to transcend through Transcendental Meditation, the farmer is able to fol-
low his own thoughts into the deeper levels of his thinking and feeling process, into
that awareness which is giving rise to those thoughts. This is a level of perception with
fewer boundaries, more openness, more connectedness, a level that is shared with the
living beings around him, including his crops.
The farmer opens his awareness to those essential resonances in the environment, the
essential reverberations that are the essence of each thing in that environment. The
fully developed Vedic farmer is able to see and understand the connectedness of those
resonances with the resonances of the Veda and the Vedic literature that he uses in his
Vedic Agriculture procedures, the resonances that are the blueprint of all of creation.
He is able to perceive within himself what Maharishi, in the quote below, calls vibra-
tional modes of consciousness:
Thus it is clear that the concrete universe is essentially a bundle of vibrational
modes of consciousness—eternally reverberating self-referral intelligence. This is
upheld by modern Physics, which tells us that all the structures and dynamics of the
universe can be understood as resonant (vibrational) modes of underlying quan-
tum fields, and that the most fundamental level of Quantum Cosmology deals with
the “wave function of the universe”.26
Then the farmer, through his mere intention, moves the intention of nature to support
his farming activities. He is able to coordinate the vast array of factors involved in farm-
ing from his simple unified awareness.
This is what being in tune with Natural Law means—that the level of experience, of
perception, of inter-connectedness, of communication, is such that the farmer’s internal
environment and his external environment become merged.
The Vedic tradition has always recognized the value of consciousness and awareness
in plants, animals, and the environment. That is why, from the very beginning of the
tradition of agriculture, the techniques and procedures of Vedic agriculture have been
consciousness based. Maharishi captured this when he said,
Now the Vedic Consciousness of the farmer will make the farmer smile in his fields,
and the happy farmer, entering his field, will be welcomed by the smiles of every
plant growing in his field. The Vedic Consciousness of the farmer will create a Vedic
Breath and Vedic Smile in every plant in the field and this will implant a real
nourishing value in the crops. He will celebrate the waves of higher consciousness
within himself every day in his home and bless the whole population—season after
season—generation after generation.27

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 Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation
and TM-Sidhi Programme28
Developing the Total Brain Functioning and Good Health of the Farmer

T he experience of Transcendental Consciousness—unbounded awareness—during

the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programmes is a
unique experience that enlivens the total functioning of the human brain. Since the
brain is the primary regulator of all aspects of the physiology, this development of brain
functioning has a profound influence in promoting health, vitality, and successful action
for the farmer. It is this growth of a holistic, integrated state of brain functioning that
is able to support thinking and action in harmony with Total Natural Law.
In addition, research studies show greater integration in the overall functioning of the
brain, the peripheral nervous system, and neuroendocrine processes, as indicated by
faster recovery of the autonomic nervous system from stress, more adaptive neuroendo-
crine response to stress, and improvement in physiological, cognitive, and behavioural
abilities that usually decline with ageing.
Most significant are the results of research studies that show reduced hospitalization
and medical expenditures among those who learn the practice of Transcendental Medi-
tation. For example, a study of insurance statistics of 2,000 participants in the Tran-
scendental Meditation programme found that they had an average of 50% less hospi-
talization and less outpatient doctor visits than the population norms.
Among the many other research findings demonstrating improved health for the farm-
er through the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme
are the following:
• Decreased Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Subjects
• Decreased Serum Cholesterol Levels in Normal and Hypercholesterolaemic Pa-
tients
• Improvements in Patients with Angina Pectoris: Improved Exercise Tolerance;
Increased Maximum Workload
• Reduction of Atherosclerosis
• Improvements in Patients with Bronchial Asthma: Reduced Severity of Symp-
toms, Reduced Airway Resistance
• Decreased Use of Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Non-Prescribed Drugs
• Benefits for the Elderly Demonstrating Reversal of Ageing: Increased Longevity
(Higher Survival Rate)
• Hormone Levels and Blood Analysis Indicating Younger Biological Age
• Increased Psychological Health

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 Reduction of Mortality,
Hearth Attack, and Stroke
THROUGH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION
100
Risk of Events (expected number per
yeare per 1000 event-free persons)
75 p < .025

50 48% Lower Rate

25

0
Health Transcendental
Education Meditation

Reduction of Mortality, Heart Attacks, and Strokes

This randomized controlled trial of patients with documented coronary heart disease
found that those randomly assigned to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique
showed a reduction of 48 percent in the risk of mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarc-
tion, or stroke over the follow-up period averaging 5.4 years, in comparison to a control
group which participated in a health education programme.
Reference: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 5: 770–758, 2012.
The American Heart Association has conducted a meta-study of all the commonly
available personal development techniques for improving heart health, and has found
that only the Transcendental Meditation programme shows significant clinical out-
comes, resulting in their recommendation of Transcendental Meditation as an effective
therapeutic modality.

Developing the Farmer’s Creativity and Clarity of Mind

Creativity is the very essence of the farmer’s profession, and since creativity and clarity
of mind are essential for the far-reaching decisions of the farmer and the agribusiness
manager, the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme is
important for everyone in the field of agriculture.
Scientific research studies indicate that the practice of Transcendental Meditation de-
velops creativity. For example, research on different types of creative thinking shows
that individuals develop greater originality in problem-solving; greater fluency of ide-
as; greater flexibility of thinking in solving problems; increased field independence,
which is a measure of broad comprehension together with the ability to focus sharply;
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i­ ncreased practical intelligence, by which one sees the practical consequences of actions;
increased mental efficiency; and increased fluid or general intelligence.
Among the many other research findings which demonstrate increased clarity of mind
and improved mind-body coordination are the following:
• Improved Problem-Solving Ability
• Increased Innovation
• Improved Memory
• Faster Processing of Cognitively Complex Information
• Increased Clarity and Flexibility of Perception
• Increased Vigilance and Improved Capacity for Selective Attention

Holistic Improvement
in Intellectual Performance
THROUGH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION
Effect size in contrast to controls

.8

.7

.6

.5

.4

.3

.2

.1

0
Creativity Field Practical Mental Fluid
Independence Intelligence Efficiency Intelligence
p < .0001 p < .0001 p < .0001 p < .0003 p < .001

Holistic Improvement in Intellectual Performance

Three randomized controlled studies among Chinese students found that, in contrast
to controls, those who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique showed sig-
nificant improvement in five measures of intellectual functioning; they also showed
decreased anxiety. Reference: Intelligence 29: 419–440, 2001.

Developing the Farmer’s Skill in Action

Skill in action begins to grow right from the first days of practice of Transcendental
Meditation. An important aspect of growing skill in action—action supported by natu-
ral law—is that action is increasingly effortless, causing no strain to the performer, and
meeting with no resistance from the environment. The development of this quality of

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skilful action is indicated by the research finding that employees who learn the practice
of Transcendental Meditation show decreased stress during task performance—greater
physiological calmness in the midst of their job activity.
Greater skill in action is also confirmed by the following research findings:
• Increased Effectiveness
• Increased Time Competence: Increased Ability to Think and Act Efficiently in
the Present
• Faster Reactions
• Increased Energy and Enthusiasm
• Decreased Fatigue
• More Effective Interaction with the Environment
• Improved Resistance to Stress
• Increased Job Satisfaction
• Improved Work and Personal Relationships
• Improved Relations with Co-Workers and Supervisors
• Increased Sociability
• Greater Marital Adjustment
• Greater Family Health
• Enhanced Inner Well-Being
• Increased Contentment

Improved Work and

Personal Relationships
THROUGH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION
0.8
questionnaire subscale

0.6
Change on

0.4
p < .05

0.2

Controls Transcendental
Meditation

Improved Work and Personal Relationships

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A study of executives and workers found that after three months of regular practice of
the Transcendental Meditation programme, participants showed improved work and
personal relationships, in comparison to controls from the same work sites. Reference:
Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal 6: 245–262, 1993.

Creating an Orderly, Harmonious Society, the Basis of Balance in ­Nature

I t is well understood that human society has an enormous influence on the natural
environment. When the collective consciousness of society is disorderly, and both
citizens and leaders lack breadth of comprehension, pollution of air, water, and soil,
misappropriation of natural resources, endangering of species, and overall disruption of
environmental balance result.
What is less well understood is that because human consciousness is fundamentally
connected with the totality of natural law, the buildup of stress, tension, and turbulence
in society as a whole—imbalance in human life—has a direct effect of disrupting bal-
ance in nature. Human incoherence creates environmental incoherence, with the result
of frequent natural disasters such as drought, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. Maharishi
has expressed this idea as follows:
The destiny of the whole population affects agriculture, in addition to the forces of
nature, such as rain, sunshine and the season. I am using the word destiny, but it
should not be considered mystical, or implying faith, or anything like that.

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 Destiny is a translation of a phrase which is very well known everywhere, “As you
sow, so shall you reap.” This is the definition of what we call destiny. When famine
comes and people do not get food, it is they who collectively created a situation such
that nature became imbalanced, and did not produce rains at the right time. When
individuals begin to violate the laws of nature in their own lives, these violations
cause negative influences in the collective atmosphere, which eventually turn into
natural calamities.29
This relationship between coherence and purity in collective consciousness and the
extent to which natural law expresses itself to support the activities of mankind, is a
fundamental principle in Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture.
From this knowledge coming to us from the Vedic tradition, we gain the most funda-
mental understanding about the relationship of man and nature—that the conscious-
ness of man influences the functioning of nature, and vice versa.
The level of purity, orderliness, and coherence achieved in individual and collective
consciousness, in any local area, or in any society or any nation, determines the vitality,
functionality, and totality of the laws of nature expressing themselves in that area—in
the sun, the stars, the rain, the soil, the air, the wildlife, the soil life, and the farmer him-
self. This is a unique Vedic understanding.
Manu Smriti, the ancient law-giving text from the Vedic Tradition, states this principle
in terms of natural law. Caring for natural law is said to be the means for assuring that,
in turn, we are cared for by natural law:

/moR r=it r=t"

He who cares for natural law, the natural law cares for him.
—Manu Smriti 8.15

As we have noted throughout this publication, the Unified Field of Natural Law is
the most fundamental and basic level of nature’s orderliness. This can be understood as
what Maharishi calls the “Constitution of the Universe” or the government of nature,
containing the fundamental laws of nature that govern evolution. It is from this holistic
level of nature’s functioning that all aspects of society can be maintained in an always
positive direction, with the consequent creation of balance in the environment.
When large groups of individuals practice Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness
together in one place, an influence of order, coherence, and harmony is created in the
whole collective consciousness, as documented by 50 scientific research studies that
show reduced negative trends and increased positive trends in society. These studies
provide evidence that this influence can be created for the whole nation by a very small
proportion of the population—on the order of the square root of 1%—participating
in collective practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme,
including Yogic Flying.
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 For example, scientific research
studies show reduced crime and
Improved National Life: violence, improved quality of life,
Decreased Fatalities and improved economic trends
THROUGH TM-SIDHI YOGIC FLYING
during periods when this influ-
U.S.A. Canada ence of coherence was created in
0

society. These social conditions of

Per cent change

-2 order, peace, and economic vital-

ity are important requirements for
-4
success in agriculture.
-6 p < .025 p < .005
Managing the Agricultural
Environment
Improved National Life: Decreased Fatalities
Weekly fatalities (homicides, suicides, and auto ac-
cidents) decreased significantly in the United States
C ase studies in Peru, Sen-
egal, and Mozambique in-
dicate that on occasions when
and in Canada during periods when the size of a large groups of participants in
group of participants in the Transcendental Medi- the Transcendental Meditation
tation Sidhi programme exceeded the square root of programme or the TM-Sidhi
1% of the national populations. References: Social programme have been created,
Indicators Research 22: 399–418, 1990; Psychological
conditions of drought have been
Reports 76: 1171–1193, 1995
alleviated. For example, the for-
mer Commander of the Armed
Forces in Mozambique, in whose ranks group practice of the TM-Sidhi programme
was instituted, reports the following results “after five years of the worst drought of the
century in Southern Africa”:
The coming of the rains in 1993 supports the idea that large groups of individuals
practicing the TM-Sidhi programme bring balance to nature. The rains were only
expected in the month of July, but they came six months in advance, in the month
of February, immediately after thousands of people were taught the Transcenden-
tal Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. On the other hand, as soon as the big
groups stopped practicing (last week of January 1994) [due to demobilization of
the armed forces], there was a predicted and almost immediate, cessation of the
rains (last week of January 1994).
These results indicate the possibility of maintaining balance in nature through per-
manent large groups practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi pro-
gramme, including Yogic Flying.
(For more information on the scientific research on the Transcendental Meditation and
TM-Sidhi programme, please refer to http://www.tm.org/research )

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 Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya Programme:
Applying the Creativity of Natural Law through
Vedic Sounds at Each Stage in the Life of the Plants

H aving discussed how we create and maintain the full potential of natural law in
the consciousness of the farmer, how do we create and maintain this total intel-
ligence of nature in the crops? How do we deal with consciousness and its expressions
in the natural environment?
We do this first and foremost by using Vedic sounds, Vedic recitations, which are the
reverberations of natural law itself, the reverberations of the most fundamental level
of human consciousness expressed in the form of sound. We use certain Vedic sounds
or vibrations at each stage of the life of a plant in order that, throughout the growing
process, the plant is exposed to both the specific expressions of natural law that are
necessary at that moment in its life cycle, and to the wholeness of natural law. Both
specificity and wholeness are natural realities in each Vedic recitation. Thus we have
the togetherness of parts and the wholeness of natural law as the inherent reality of the
practice of Vedic farming.
The Vedic sounds used in the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya Programme have
been preserved throughout the ages by the traditional Vedic families in India, and are
today recited by the Vedic Pandits—experts in Vedic recitations—just as they were cen-
turies ago. The Vedic sounds we hear when Vedic Pandits recite are the same reverbera-
tions or resonances, on the expressed level of sound, that are present within the Unified
Field of consciousness on an unmanifest level, when this field interacts with itself, and
reverberates as the basic impulses of natural law.
To further understand this, we need a deeper understanding of Veda and how it oper-
ates. In Maharishi Vedic Science it is the sound value of Veda that is important—espe-
cially the precise sequence of sounds and silent gaps in the recitation—rather than the
intellectual meaning of the words. The sounds of Veda and Vedic Literature, being the
reverberations or resonances of natural law itself, have the ability to enliven their cor-
responding resonances in the environment.
The reason this principle works can be explained by the Vedic principle of name and
form, or Nama Rupa in Sanskrit. In the Vedic language, the resonance of the name is
the same as the resonance of the form to which it corresponds. So in Vedic language,
when we use a word to describe something, the resonance of the sound of that word
is the same as the resonance of the physical object itself. This happens uniquely in the
Vedic language.
Take a simple physical example of two tuning forks: if the resonance or frequency of
the two tuning forks is the same, striking one will automatically cause the other to vi-
brate with the same frequency. This is analogous to using the Vedic language to enliven
certain laws of nature. The names, which are the Vedic Mantras in the Vedic recitation,
are of the same resonance as the laws of nature to which they correspond. By ­enlivening

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the name, we enliven the form, or the law of nature, automatically. Thus we can use the
Vedic sounds directly to enliven and promote specific laws of nature that are responsible for
agricultural growth and development at each specific stage in the life of a plant.
The Vedic resonances from deep within the consciousness of the Vedic Pandits wakes
up the “memory” of those laws of nature deep within the plants—those laws of nature
that are responsible for creating the perfect expression of the plant’s physiology. It is the
enlivening of this intelligence of the plant that is ultimately responsible for the growth
of vitality and nutrition within it.
What do we mean when we say that the sounds of Veda and Vedic Literature are the
reverberations of natural law? How can a recited sound be the same as a law of na-
ture governing the universe? The answer to this is one of the most profound points of
knowledge in the Vedic tradition. Maharishi has explained that it is not actually the
physical sound coming from the Pandit that creates the effect. It is the conscious aware-
ness of the source of that sound in the Pandit’s consciousness that makes the difference.
On the level of the Pandit’s pure consciousness, the unmanifest impulse of the Vedic
vibrations is on the same level as the laws of nature within the Unified Field of N
­ atural
Law. The laws of nature are enlivened in the Pandit’s consciousness, and this is why it is
essential to have live Vedic chanting by highly trained Pandits for a Vedic Agriculture
project. This effect cannot be produced by sound recordings played electronically.
Referring to the adjacent diagram, we can see this more clearly. We can see that there
are four basic levels of speech: the expressed level of sound that we hear, or the Bhaikari
level; the level of Madhyama
which is the level of thinking;
the level of Pashyanti which is
the fine level of feeling or in-
tuition; and the level of Para
which is the transcendental,
unmanifest level of sound.
To be truly effective the Pan-
dits must be consciously aware
of all these four levels simul-
taneously, and be able to ex-
perience the Vedic vibrations
in their complete range from
deep within their conscious-
ness, from the level of Para,
to the level of faint feeling, to
the level of thinking, and fi-
nally to express them as verbal
sound. However, this is a uni-
fied experience, taking place in
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a broadened awareness; it is not a sequential experience. This is the secret of how the
laws of nature, the reverberations of consciousness, are stimulated from the deeper level
of consciousness and have their expressed influence on the environment. The level of
Para and its connection to the more expressed levels of feeling and thinking, is the level
which really moves nature, which moves the environment and brings balance to the
farming process. The more expressed levels help the Pandit contact and connect with
the deeper levels and apply them in practice in the Vedic recitation programme.
This essential point brings to our awareness the importance of the Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme in the training of the Pandits. Practice of these
technologies is what allows the Pandit to develop proficiency in experiencing and ap-
plying all the deeper levels of his mind, intellect, and awareness, so that these deeper
levels become readily available.
The Vedic reverberations that the Pandits recite are those most fundamental reverbera-
tions at the basis of the physical structure of the plant, and indeed of the whole envi-
ronment. When these Vedic sounds are recited, the plants and their environment are
nourished at this most fundamental level and respond accordingly.
Maharishi has explained this as follows:
It is the specific mantras or reverberations of the Veda that enliven specific Devatas,
or impulses of Natural Law, and these Devatas enliven each stage of plant growth.
It is the Devatas (administrators of cosmic intelligence) that structure each stage
of plant growth. This will help the all-around growth of the plant from the energy
and intelligence within Natural Law. Vedic vibrations are the Laws of Nature.
Whatever laws are needed at each stage of development, we supply these.
You are doing it on the surface, but you are doing it to the consciousness of the
plant. In Vedic Agriculture we relate the world of nutrients to the enlivenment
of the consciousness of plants. Then it becomes Vedic. We have a mantra or Vedic
vibration according to the stage. We want to enliven the consciousness of the plant
so the physiology of the plant is fully strong and fully nutritious. Just as a child is
nourished, the Devata of the plant has to be nourished month after month with the
Vedic Procedures of farming. We supply higher intelligence to the plants. Nobody
has this intelligence except Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture. 30
How and when are the Vedic sounds applied in the life of a plant?
To understand this, we need to look at the fundamental structure of nature from the
Vedic perspective. Looking at the chart below, we see the eight basic stages in the life
of a plant: silent seed, swollen seed, sprout, young plant, fully grown plant, flowering
stage, fruiting stage, and finally the next generation of seeds. In Vedic Agriculture, at
the transition time for each of the principal stages in the life of a plant, we apply spe-
cific Vedic sounds to enliven a particular required quality of growing intelligence at that
point in the plant’s life. It is like applying a fertilizer, but it is a fertilizer of a particular
quality of nature’s intelligence, to ensure the full effectiveness of the growing process at
each stage.
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See enlarged chart on page 58
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture

His Holiness
Enlivening Total Natural Law
in the Eight Stages of the Life Cycle of a Plant
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University

Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic

Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations

Planting First Rains Sprouting: First Full Spreading Flowering Fruiting New Crop
the Seeds or First branching or of the plant in of Seeds
in the Irrigation exposure differentiating Space
Earth to the Sun of the plant

Earth Water Fire Air Space Mind Intellect Ego

(P®ithiv¡) (Jal) (Agni) (Våyu) (Åkåsh) (Manas) (Buddhi) (Ahaµkår)

Paraprakriti

Purusha

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In addition to this application of specific laws of nature, the meditating farmer and the
Vedic Pandits who recite these sounds naturally maintain a holistic value of natural
law in their awareness, so that the value of specificity and generality of natural law are
simultaneously maintained on all levels. This ability to hold holistic and specific values
of natural law together in one awareness brings the infinite organizing power and crea-
tivity of nature into the Pandit’s and farmer’s own consciousness. This application of
specific and holistic values of Natural Law will be further developed in the next section.
In science, we see transformations taking place through phase transitions. These tran-
sitions are very delicate in nature and are open to very far reaching influences at the
critical point of transformation.
A delicate impulse at any one point in space and time can create a precipitous change
throughout the entire universe. This long-range correlation explains how action on
the level of the Unified Field, at the scale of Super Unification (transcendental field
of intelligence), can have a profound influence that can spread anywhere and eve-
rywhere throughout the universe.31
Since, like all phase transitions, the transition from each stage of growth to the next
in the life of the plant is delicate, this transformation must not be left to partial, frag-
mented, and incomplete values of natural law. This is the problem with today’s agricul-
ture. Inappropriate or imbalanced values of natural law are continually applied and the
plant loses much of its essential connection with nature. The structure, function, and
nutritional quality of the plant will necessarily suffer simply because the intelligence
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guiding the growth of the plant at that critical time in its development will not be
complete—and not only incomplete, but in the case of such inputs as insecticides and
chemical fertilizers, may actually be harmful.
This application of Vedic sounds, or the laws of nature in the form of sound, is a unique
practice of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture and represents the highest value of
interaction and support between man and nature. Its effects, along with those of the
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme, are the most far-reaching of all
agricultural procedures.
Manu Smriti, the ancient Vedic law-giving text, declares that Veda is the root source
of all the laws of nature. Therefore, by enlivening Veda through Vedic Recitations, we
enliven natural law in a comprehensive and holistic manner, thus ensuring the fullest
value of the crops.

vedo ≤%lo /mRmUlm(

Veda is the root of all laws. —Manu Smriti 2.6
Of course one could maintain that as the intelligence moderating growth is inherent
in the seed and its environment naturally, why is there the need to add to it or enhance
it? This would be a valid question. Do not the laws of nature function everywhere the
same in our universe?
The answer is yes, they are functioning in the same way, but how they interact and
express themselves varies according to the environment in which they are functioning.
When unopposed and unrestricted, natural law always functions with its full creative
potential. However, unnatural interventions can restrict its expressions. And this is not
limited to the gross physical level, but extends to finer and finer levels of nature’s func-
tioning.
In our modern time, the purity, balance, and integrity of the environment has been
compromised, and thus the interactions of the parts which make up the whole of an
ecosystem no longer function in a manner that expresses the full potential of that sys-
tem. The chemical, biological, molecular, and even genetic systems are compromised.
By this we mean that the intelligence in the environment is not fully functional due to
imbalances and “incoherence” in the environmental interactions. Thus we find in today’s
environment that the necessary intelligence and its tendency to be fully expressed for
ideal growth of the plant has been weakened, contributing to a nearly 50% decline in
food nutrition over the last 50 years.32
Imbalance in nature merely means lack of co-ordination among its various separate
elements. If the sun shines when we need rain, there is no co-ordination between
the sun and rain. For successful agriculture there are so many fields which need to
be coordinated that it is beyond the range of the human mind to put all these things
in order. The only way is to get down to that level at which all these elements are
naturally coordinated—namely, the field of infinite correlation.
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 Infinite correlation means perfect communication. In other words, each element
is related to the other so intimately, that it is the other. That is the wealth of the
wholeness of awareness which unifies all surface differences at the source.33

But this loss of order and vitality in the functioning intelligence of the environment can
be restored by the application of “order and intelligence” inherent in the resonance and
sequences of the Vedic sounds. A simple example, restoring the corrupt software on our
computer with the master software disk, gives the idea.
The science of epigenetics and the regulation and effect of the environment on gene
expression provide another relatively straightforward example. The potential of every
genome is vast, but only limited parts of it are expressed at any given time, in any given
environment. The ability to stimulate different and more complete expressions of the
genome can be effected in many ways. Vedic Agriculture uses the resonance of the
Vedic sounds to effect the resonance of the genome and thus its expression to enliven
the full potential of the plant, a potential that has been developed over countless gen-
erations, the functional memory of which may or may not be available to the plant in
the current generation. As Maharishi explains:

The Vedic recitations enliven the memory stored in the seed, memory that is quietly
lively in the silence of the seed. We celebrate the seed with special ceremonies of sup-
port because at the time of growth, the intelligence within the seed has to display
its new faculty.34
Performance of the Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness at their deepest level
helps to enliven the full value of nature’s functioning, a value which is essential in Vedic
Agriculture to develop the plants.
In summary, Maharishi comments:
when we add the Vedic element to organic agriculture, we are adding a phenom-
enon of intelligence—a phenomenon of consciousness—a phenomenon of the crea-
tive intelligence of nature directly applied to support different stages of evolution
of the plant and the nutrients within it. Once the difference between conventional
agriculture and organic agriculture has been realized and actualized, then, as a
second stage, adding the Vedic value brings the advantage of the total nourishing
value of natural law to the food that we eat.35
The difference is vast, subtle and critical.

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 Understanding the Fundamental
Structuring Dynamics of Nature
To more completely understand this application of nature’s intelligence in Vedic agri-
culture, we need a more complete understanding of the basic structure of nature at its
most fundamental level. If we want to apply Total Natural Law in agriculture, we have
to understand what Total Natural Law is. Maharishi Vedic Science provides a unique
and comprehensive understanding of nature’s foundation.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, the compact encyclopedia of all the Vedic Literature, Lord
Krishna, the symbolic embodiment of natural law, expresses exactly what this complete
range of natural law is:

At the foundation of nature, there are eight structuring dynamics, called Prakritis in
Sanskrit, responsible respectively, throughout creation, for the principles of structure,
fluidity, metabolism, respiration, distribution in space, and the expressions of mind, in-
tellect, and ego. These eightfold structuring dynamics or functioning intelligences form
the basic building blocks of creation in Maharishi Vedic Science.
Their Sanskrit names are Bhumi (structuring principle), Apah (fluidity), Agni (metabo-
lism), Vayu (respiration and gaseous exchange), Akasha (distribution in space), Manas
(mind), Buddhi (intellect or discrimination), Ahamkara (self-sense or self-referral).
These eight Prakritis are inherent in the Unified Field as the Total Potential of Natural
Law. If we want to enliven the full range of natural law in our food, we can do it by
handling these eight Prakritis.
These eight Prakritis are not just what they are commonly understand to be: physical
earth, water, fire, air, space, etc. The eight Prakritis are found everywhere, in all aspects
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of creation, both living and non-living. The Prakritis are actually groupings of structural
and functional intelligence, collections of specific laws of nature described by modern
physics, chemistry, biology, genetics, quantum field theory, etc., that perform specific
functions, wherever they are operating, in plants, animals, or the environment. All eight
Prakritis are functioning everywhere, but the specific qualities we find in each indi-
vidual object or expression of the Prakritis arise from the predominance of one or more
Prakriti in that object. For example, a rock would have Bhumi or earth Prakriti in pre-
dominance, even though the other Prakritis will be found there in less predominance.
These Prakritis are the eight divisions, the eight skills of nature’s administration; they
are the eight aspects of nature’s intelligence. They are channels to create a profound and
fundamental cooperation with nature.
The following figures represent the origin of the Prakritis in the field of conscious-
ness, and some examples of the expressions or manifestations of the eight Prakritis in
plants and animals. Understanding these will help to understand the commonality of
the Prakritis throughout nature. We need to understand this all-pervading nature of the
Prakritis in order to see how the Vedic Agriculture Yagya Programme can be so comprehensive
in its effect.
To begin this analysis we can see that consciousness itself has an eightfold structure as
expressed in the chart. This means consciousness has eight fundamental reverberations
of its own abstract nature. We can think of it as a guitar string vibrating in eight dif-
ferent modes. These eight fundamental reverberations of consciousness are expressed

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Founder of Maharishi
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

a (A) I (I) ü (U) A (Â) lO (Òri) E (E) ao (O) a' (Aµ)

a; (Å) IR (⁄) Ë (¤) Å (Âi) lè (Òr¡) Ee (AI) aø (AU) a" (A˙)

Eight Prakritis
Bh™mi Apah Agni Våyu Åkåsh Manas Buddhi Ahaµkår
Earth Water Fire Air Space Mind Intellect Ego

Mandal 2 Mandal 3 Mandal 4 Mandal 5 Mandal 6 Mandal 7 Mandal

Mandal 88 Mandal 9

Paraprakriti
(Mandal 1)

Purusha
(Mandal 10)

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as the reverberations of the eight Swaras or Vedic vowels. The eight Prakritis are the
eight values of organizing power associated with the eight Swaras. The chart shows the
origin of the Prakritis arising out of the eight fundamental vibrations of consciousness,
or Swaras. Each Swara has a corresponding Prakriti.

The 8 Swaras are eight values of pure knowledge, called Gyan Shakti in the Vedic lan-
guage. The eight Prakritis are the organizing power associated with each of these eight
values of knowledge. The Prakritis have the value of organizing power, expressed in the
vedic language as Kriya Shakti. Knowledge and organizing power exist together in these
values of Swaras and Prakritis.

The above chart also shows that each swara and prakriti has a corresponding value as a
specific Mandala, or book, of Rik Veda from Mandalas 2-9. Rik Veda is the most fun-
damental of all the Vedic expressions of knowledge, being the first full expression of the
dynamics created by the swaras and prakritis within the field of Atma or consciousness.
In the diagram above, Bhumi Prakriti sequentially unfolds or elaborates as Rik Veda
Mandala 2; Apah Prakriti elaborates as Mandala 3, etc.

In the plant kingdom, the essential understanding of the Prakritis in Vedic Agriculture
is the expression of the eight Prakritis as they govern the eight essential structures and
functions in plant physiology. What follows is a brief summary of the innumerable and
intricate functions performed by the Prakritis in the plant kingdom.

1. Bhumi Prakriti governs, balances, and supports all structural elements, both in
the plants and in the environment. For example, in plants, Bhumi governs the micro
­structures, the structure of cell membranes and tissues, root structures and systems, the
stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits, and in the greater environment, the soil composition,
structure, and conservation, extending to the whole earth itself.
2. Apah Prakriti governs all the fluid and vascular systems, including intercellular fluids,
vascular systems, and fluid uptake from the environment.
In the environment, Apah balances environmental water systems, ensuring that the
rains come on time and in proper proportion, the ground waters are stable, and surface
waters are pure and abundant. Apah governs overall fluid balance in the earth and its
atmosphere.
3. Agni Prakriti governs the metabolic and photosynthetic systems in plants. In the
greater environment, Agni balances and regulates sunshine intensity, seasonal tempera-
ture balance, and all metabolic process integral to environmental health.
4. Vayu Prakriti governs respiration and gaseous exchange in plant respiratory systems,
for example cellular and whole plant respiration. In the greater environment, Vayu bal-
ances the respiration of environmental systems, ensuring that the air is pure, that winds
are conducive to crop health, and the overall atmosphere is healthy and balanced.
5. Akasha Prakriti governs plant intercellular spaces and their inter-relationships, and
plant growth patterns in space. In the greater environment, Akasha governs spatial
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r­ elationships, for example ensuring that the spatial relationships of all the vegetation in
the ecosystem are conducive to the collective health and vitality of the whole system.
Balanced Akasha Prakriti also ensures that supportive influences come from all direc-
tions—that the cosmos and heavenly bodies radiate appropriate influences for man to
live in accord with natural law and for nature to respond in a supportive manner.
6. Manas Prakriti governs the flow of intelligence in plants, expressed, for example, as
the awareness in plants of the cycles and rhythms in nature, plants’ responsiveness to
external stimuli through such mechanisms as plant tropisms, the regulation of abun-
dant and healthy flowering, and efficient and complete pollination. In the environment,
Manas Prakriti provides for the flow of information and functioning intelligence, al-
lowing environmental systems to be aware of their own internal functioning, and their
inter-relationships and interactions with their encompassing environment.
7. Buddhi Prakriti governs all the discriminatory and differentiating processes. For ex-
ample, it regulates the necessary chemical, biological, and behavioural systems ­required
to maintain plant integrity amidst environmental inputs and challenges. In plants,
­Buddhi governs the differentiation of present and future generations in fruit and seed
formation. In the greater environment, Buddhi Prakriti monitors the creative and de-
structive operators, and the unifying and differentiating tendencies in nature to ensure
balance between these opposing dynamics. Buddhi Prakriti is that quality of intelli-
gence that monitors and maintains the integrity of all self-organized systems, ensuring
that their individuality remains intact when challenged by a dynamically diversified en-

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His Holiness
Tenfold STrucTure of naTural law wiThin ViShwa
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University

AHAMKARA 9th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

8 (Ego) New seed
From the
Hollowness BUDDHI 8th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
7 (Intellect) Differentiation of Future Generation
of the Seed… from Present (Fruit and Seed)
Fruit

MANAS 7th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

6 Awareness in Plants of the Cycles
(Mind) of Nature and External Stimuli
(Flowers and Cell Tropisms)
Paraprakriti
(Mandal 1) AKASHA 6th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
5 (Space) Characteristic Spread of the Plant in
Space and Spaces within the Plant

Purusha VAYU 5th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

(Mandal 10) 4 (Air) Lower Epidermal and Stomata
…Comes the Cells of Leaves
Respiration
Whole Tree
AGNI 4th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
3 (Fire) Upper epidermal cells of Leaves
Metabolism and Photosynthesis

APAH 3th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

2 (Water) Main channel is the stem
Fluid and Vascular Systems

1 BHUMI 2th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

(Earth) Foundation of the Plant in the
Root and the Earth
Structural Elements

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vironment. Buddhi Prakriti ensures that plants remain simultaneously attuned to both
the holistic and specific values of natural law.
8. Ahamkara Prakriti governs self-referral, and self-awareness in plants. For example, it
ensures the integrity of the seed genome for maximum viability of the next ­generation.
Ahamkara Prakriti also governs the plant’s self-awareness in its relationship with the
environment. In the greater environment, Ahamkara Prakriti maintains ecosystem in-
tegrity and self-awareness, to ensure that each part of the system is functioning in har-
mony with the whole.
Similarly, in animals and humans, the same eight systems are found, with the Prakritis
performing similar or parallel functions, such as Bhumi governing the musculoskeletal
system, Apah governing the renal and circulatory system, Agni the digestive system, and
so on. Keep in mind that these Prakritis are dynamically interactive groups of the laws
of nature governing structure and function in natural systems.
The Prakritis not only inspire, regulate, and support the physical level of life, they func-
tion on all levels of creation. For example, they are at the foundation of our sensory
experiences.
Bhumi Prakriti creates, structures, supports, and enlivens the sense of smell. Apah
Prakriti creates, structures, supports, and enlivens the sense of taste; Agni Prakriti, the
sense of sight; Vayu Prakriti, the sense of touch; and Akasha Prakriti the sense of hear-
ing. All of these senses can be refined and made more deeply effective through balanc-
ing the underlying Prakritis.

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Tenfold STrucTure of naTural law wiThin The cow PhySiology

Head
His Holiness
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University

8
7 6
From Neck
Consciousness 5

Paraprakriti 4
(Mandal 1) Chest 3
Purusha 2
(Mandal 10)
…Comes the
Whole Physiology
Feet 1

BHUMI
1 (Earth) Solid Systems
2nd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Musculoskeletal System
5 ÅKÅSH
(Space) Space
6th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Articular System (Joints)
Systems
JAL
2 (Water) 3rd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda 6 MANAS 7th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Fluid Systems Renal and Cardiovascular Systems (Mind Quality) Hypothalamus, Endocrine-Reproductive System

3 AGNI 4th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda 7 BUDDHI

(Intellect Quality)
8rd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
(Fire) Metabolic Systems Gastrointestinal System Thalamus, Haematologic-Immunologic System
and Metabolism

4 VÅYU 5th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda AHA˜KÅR

8 (Ego 9nd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
(Air) Gaseous Systems Quality) Brain, Neurological System
Respiratory System

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All of the Prakritis act on all levels of creation—expressed, subtle, and transcenden-
tal. This means that these basic structuring dynamics, the Prakritis, operate on the
­unmanifest level in the unified field, at the subatomic and atomic levels, at the molecu-
lar level, cellular level, tissue and organ level, whole body level, all the way up to the
entire ecosystem and beyond to the far reaches of the universe. And they operate in all
living and non-living systems. They are the structuring dynamics of our universe. Ac-
cording to Maharishi Vedic Science, they are inherent within the Unified Field as its
essential nature. They are the intelligence and organizing power of nature. What we see
as nature around us is the expression or manifestation of the Prakritis, not the Prakritis
themselves, which are of the nature of intelligence, both silent and dynamic.

The most significant point here is that by successfully handling these eight funda-
mental organizing principles, and their organizing power in creation, we can holisti-
cally handle the whole agriculture environment in the process of creating Vedic food.
We can handle the complex series of factors which effect success in agriculture, from
weather, to soil fertility, crop health and vitality, to environmental balance, all from the
one common mechanism of the Prakritis. The Prakritis are thus both unifying princi-
ples throughout creation, and are convenient points of interaction with nature, to make
sure nature is fully supportive.
And most importantly, when we balance and enliven the eight Prakritis in plants, then
when we eat these plants as food, the corresponding eight Prakritis in our physiol-
ogy are automatically balanced and enlivened, which in turn balances our eight major

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Tenfold STrucTure of naTural law wiThin human PhySiology
His Holiness
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University
8 AHA˜KÅR 9th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
8th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda BUDDHI (Ego Quality) Brain, Neurological System
Thalamus, Haematologic- 7
(Intellect Quality) MANAS 7th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Immunologic System 6 Head
(Mind Quality) Hypothalamus, Endocrine-Reproductive
From Consciousness System
ÅKÅSH
Neck 5 (Space)
6th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Articular System (Joints)
Space Systems

Chest VÅYU 5th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

Paraprakriti 4 (Air) Respiratory System
(Mandal 1) Gaseous Systems
AGNI 4th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Abdomen 3 (Fire) Gastrointestinal System
Metabolic Systems and Metabolism
Purusha
(Mandal 10) JAL 3rd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
…Comes the Pelvis 2 (Water) Renal and Cardiovascular
Whole Physiology Fluid Systems Systems

PRITHIV⁄ 2nd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

Feet 1 (Earth) Musculoskeletal System
Solid Systems

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organ systems. In this manner, we create not only a state of ideal health but a state of
full ­human potential that is capable of supporting life in higher states of consciousness.
This is because when the eight Prakritis are balanced, they automatically give rise to the
unified value of the eight, the abstract pure silence and total potential at their source
(explained above as Paraprakriti and P ­ urusha). This is the meaning of Vedic Food for
Vedic Consciousness.
How do we facilitate the enlivening of these Prakritis and the laws of nature they com-
prise through Vedic sound? We do it by using the complete and perfect intelligence
of natural law contained in Veda and the Vedic literature, the same intelligence that is
structuring the most perfect and highest expression in the physiology of the plant itself.
It is the ultimate fertilizer.
Now it is important to consider the eight Prakritis as they are applied in the life cycle
of plants. In the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya Programme, we take a specific
Sankalpa, or intention, at each stage of plant development to enliven and balance the
particular Prakriti that is dominant at that stage. We apply the appropriate administer-
ing intelligence of nature at the proper time.
In the following chart, we see eight basic stages, or Sanskaras, in the life of a plant that
correspond to the eight Prakritis. As mentioned above, these are stages such as seed,
sprout, fully developed plant, flowering, fruiting, and so on. We perform Vedic recita-
tions at the transformation points between these stages where the intelligence of trans-
formation is most needed to be lively.
At the stage of the silent seed, we perform Vedic recitations to enliven the Bhumi
Prakriti, at the stage of the swollen seed, we perform Vedic recitations for Apah, or the
fluid Prakriti. Like that, at each stage of the plant’s life, we perform the appropriate
Vedic recitation.
However the most significant point in the use of Vedic recitation, as we have empha-
sized previously, is that the recitation must be done from the level of pure consciousness
of the Pandits. Vedic recitation is a Consciousness-Based technology.
Here we see the Maharishi Vedic Pandits, performing Yagyas in the greenhouses and
surrounding area of Maharishi World Peace Vedic Organics in Maharishi Vedic City,
Iowa, USA. Although only preliminary results are available, basic reported results of
these trials were:
• Increased productivity,
• Greater drought resistance and tolerance to heat due to increased plant adapt-
ability,
• Increased farmer happiness and satisfaction,
• Higher consumer satisfaction and feeling of nourishment from the food.
And even beyond the beautiful effects the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya Pro-
gramme has on the plants and their immediate environment, the programme has enor-
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Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture

His Holiness
Enlivening Total Natural Law
in the Eight Stages of the Life Cycle of a Plant
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University

Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic

Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations

Planting First Rains Sprouting: First Full Spreading Flowering Fruiting New Crop
the Seeds or First branching or of the plant in of Seeds
in the Irrigation exposure differentiating Space
Earth to the Sun of the plant

Earth Water Fire Air Space Mind Intellect Ego

(P®ithiv¡) (Jal) (Agni) (Våyu) (Åkåsh) (Manas) (Buddhi) (Ahaµkår)

Paraprakriti

Purusha

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mous benefits for the environment as a whole, on a regional, national and global level.
The Yagyas balance the fundamental building blocks or organizing dynamics of crea-
tion itself, are are thus all pervasive in their effects.
In summary, it is important to note that the Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness
and the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya programme work in harmony and synergy.
The practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme creates co-
herence and balance in both the human and natural environment. This coherence serves
as a fertile field for the Yagyas to bring their influence. Maharishi always said that Yoga
(the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme) and Yagya must be used
together to create an ideal society. One will not have its full effect without the other.
But some may be asking, is this Yagya technology really scientific? In actuality, it is
very much so. The effects of the
Yagyas are not supernatural. All
the effects are mediated through
physical, chemical, biological,
electromagnetic, and quantum
mechanical mechanisms. Yagya
is the science of the dynamics of the
Unified Field of Consciousness, the
Unified Field of Natural Law, as
that field forms the foundation of the
expressed values of Natural Law.
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Yagya is the physics and chemistry and biology of sound and fields. It uses Vedic vibra-
tions from the level of consciousness to act as a catalyst for change. But this change
occurs within the context of the scientific principles and laws such as those we see in
epigenetics, or in the interaction of electromagnetic fields.
Beginning with renowned Indian scientist Bose, who found that plants exhibit the
same sensitivities and reactions as animals, now the cutting edge of plant biology and
botany, known as plant neurobiology, has picked up this theme of plant receptivity and
communication.
That part of the international scientific community focused on plant signaling and
communication continues to report on a growing body of published research about
what plants know, how they communicate, how they feel, and what they are able to
respond to as parameters in their environment, including sound and field effects.
Decades of scientific research indicate that plants do respond to sound, and more im-
portantly to electromagnetic waves of different frequencies, by modifying such processes
as germination and growth rates, changes at the molecular and physiological level, the
regulation of enzymes, the uptake of oxygen, the synthesis of RNA and soluble proteins
and most importantly, gene expression. For the scientific community, the Vedic science
of Maharishi Yagya is a new paradigm in agriculture, and thus represents an exciting
and dynamic new field for research and application.

Supplementary Vedic Procedures in

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture

S upplementing the use of Vedic sounds, the Vedic sciences of Maharishi Jyotish and
Maharishi Sthapatya Veda play a supplementary role in this agriculture science.
Maharishi Jyotish Programme: Vedic Science of Timing and Prediction of Future
Trends in Accord with the Cycles of Natural Law
Maharishi Jyotish is the Vedic Science that originates from the level of all-knowing intel-
ligence—Jyotish Mati Prågya. A master of this science can fathom the influence of the
threads of action in all directions, and on that basis, make precise predictions and recom-
mendations about the timing of events. Jyotish is based on precise mathematical calcula-
tions that take into account universal mathematical axioms and harmonic principles.
Maharishi Jyotish explains how the laws of nature are responsible for all changes and
developments experienced in life, and how life unfolds sequentially through the steps
of evolution. As a technology of prediction, Maharishi Jyotish can help shed light on
any future trend, whether good or bad, as well as identifying specific periods that might
need extra attention in order to ensure continuation of life in tune with natural law. In
this way it can avert the danger that has not yet come.
Maharishi Jyotish includes the knowledge of how to choose the most auspicious mo-

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ment to start any action. In Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture we can use this
knowledge to determine when to plant and harvest the crops to gain the full support of
the cyclic rhythms of natural law.
These cycles, such as lunar and solar cycles, can have a great effect on plant growth and
vitality, as well as on the inner dynamics of cell processes. Planting in accord with these
cycles of natural law helps plants grow most effectively and abundantly. Harvesting in
accord with the principles of Jyotish ensures that maximum nourishment and potency
will be present in all the foods and herbs.

Maharishi Sthapatya Veda–

Building and Land Planning in Accord with Natural Law
The word Sthapatya means to establish, and the word Veda means knowledge of natural
law. Maharishi Sthapatya Veda is the science of establishing individual and collective
life in full accord with natural law through proper design and construction of buildings,
so that human creations are naturally in harmony with nature’s creation—the creation
of natural law. According to Maharishi Sthapatya Veda, the structural dynamics of the
building influence the behavioural dynamics of the occupants.
Sthapatya Veda recognizes that the strongest influence of natural law on earth comes
from the sun. On its path from east to west, the sun generates different influences, dif-
ferent qualities of energy. Plants, animals, and man are sensitive to the different quali-
ties of sunlight, as it varies from morning to afternoon to evening. Knowledge of these
influences allows us to design the farm property and buildings so that the energy of the
sun always supports every activity of daily life and every type of crop.
Maharishi Sthapatya Veda structures have a quiet influence of order and harmony in
their environment, which in turn harmonize individual life with cosmic life. This will
save the farmer from being torn apart by disharmonious influences in the surroundings.

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 Summary and Conclusions:
The Life of the Vedic Farmer
अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यां निष्प्रपञ्चं प्रपञ्च्यते
Anvayavyatirekåbhyåµ nishprapanchaµ prapanchyate
By virtue of analysis and synthesis, Total Knowledge is gained in one awareness
“If you know the seed, and you know how the seed becomes the tree,
and then becomes the seed again, then you know everything.” 36
— Maharishi
What does it mean to practice Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture and Environmen-
tal Management? What does it mean to be a Vedic farmer?
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture and Environmental Management presents a new
vision for agriculture. It envisions the future of agriculture as taking recourse to the
foundation of agriculture itself, Total Natural Law, to handle the infinitely complex
number of factors required for successful agriculture, and it handles these factors easily
and naturally from within the awareness of the farmer himself.
To be a Vedic farmer means to use the Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness, the
Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme, to create coherence in indi-
vidual, societal, and environmental consciousness.
To be a Vedic farmer means to use the eight fundamental structuring dynamics of Natu-
ral Law inherent in the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Yagya programme to fertilize the
growth and development of plants at each stage in their life cycle.
To be a Vedic farmer means to use the laws of nature themselves as tools, implements of
farming to nourish, balance, and support crops, and their interaction with the soil, the
sun, rains, and the seasons.
To be a Vedic farmer means to be a modern scientist, one who uses the most advanced
scientific knowledge as a foundation for understanding natural law, and for being able
to use natural law for the benefit of his farm. The Vedic farmer merges the objective
approach of gaining knowledge with the subjective approach, to achieve practices that
are fully life supporting to all of life and sustainable for the environment as a whole.
To be a Vedic farmer means to understand and experience that the natural environment
is ultimately one symphony, made up of individual instruments that are so intercon-
nected that their sounds are not meaningful or significant, independent of the complete
symphony. This allows the Vedic farmer to experience why biodiversity, or the intri-
cate interactions of all the components in the environment, is so essential, because the
greater the diversity, the greater unity and mutual enrichment that comes from it.
To be a Vedic farmer means to be the centrepiece of nature, and by making deep connec-
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tions with it, to draw its intelligence and resources into the farmer’s own intelligence,
into his own patterns of thinking, living, and farming. By doing so, he brings out new
knowledge from the unfathomable mind of nature—knowledge that may have been
forgotten for centuries, knowledge that is essential for man’s true well-being, prosperity,
and happiness.
To be a Vedic farmer means that the farmer’s intentions and the intentions of nature are
the same. The Vedic farmer becomes part of nature’s creative process, and enjoys the
exhilaration, joy, and intense connection to truth, that this evokes.
To be a Vedic farmer means to deeply understand the relationship between the quality of
food the farmer creates and its effect on the mind and health of his family and society.
A Vedic farmer does everything in their power to create Vedic food—food that is pure,
fully ripened, fresh, and grown in accord with all the laws of nature.
But to be a Vedic farmer, we have to change, and that change has to come from within
ourselves. Actually, it comes naturally and effortlessly from the practice of the Tran-
scendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme. And when these practices open our
awareness to new possibilities, there has to be a willingness, an openness to perceive and
to interact with nature in a new way. We have to learn to agree with the intelligence of
nature. We have to transcend our limited intellectual, emotional, and perceptual frame-
works. We have to change these frameworks from separation to intimacy. We have to
stop only dissecting and diagnosing, and start appreciating and living with nature. We
have to stop manipulating, and start cooperating. We have to adopt nature’s holistic
intelligence, and surrender our limited, fragmented intelligence. We have to create co-
herence rather than disharmony.
For the Vedic farmer, Vedic Agriculture is both holistic and specific. It is specific to the
needs of the farmer and his profession, and it is holistic in its benefit to the natural
environment, to society, the nation, and the world as a whole. The Vedic farmer has a
real vision of what can life can be like, a real vision of wholeness, of fullness. For him,
agriculture is the supreme profession, the supreme contribution that any man could
make to himself and to his society.
There is no system of agriculture more practical than Vedic Agriculture; there is no
system that makes the profession of agriculture more successful with less effort—more
successful in terms of the quality of food that is produced, more successful in terms
of the fulfilment that the farmers, as individuals, gain from their profession, and more
successful from the perspective of society, from the health and support of nature that re-
sults. Vedic Agriculture is a supremely protective and nourishing science of agriculture
for the entire nation through its ability to create food self-sufficiency and ideal living
conditions.

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 The winds waft sweet, the rivers pour sweet
for the man who keeps to natural law:
So may the plants be sweet for us.
Sweet be the night and sweet the dawns, sweet the terrestrial atmosphere:
Sweet be our Father Heaven to us.
May the tall tree be full of sweets for us, and full of sweets the Sun;
May our milch kine be sweet for us.
Rik Veda, I-XC.6-8

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 APPENDICES
Appendix #1
Seven Pillars of a Vedic Agriculture Project
Life is holistic. For any project to be comprehensively beneficial to all life, it must take
into account and nourish all aspects of life, throughout all levels of creation. This type of
holistic approach is the special focus of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Projects.
The following are the seven pillars that support any Maharishi Vedic Organic Agri-
culture Project:

1 The Project must create fully vital, life-supporting food, grown in accord with all
the laws of nature. The practice of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture has, at its
basis, sustainable, organic growing practices, both ancient and modern. These practices
are then extended and enhanced to include the Maharishi Vedic Procedures of Farming
and the Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness contained in the Maharishi Vedic
Organic Agriculture Programme. In this manner the individual farmer is fully aligned
with the local and cosmic environment in which he lives, and all the laws of nature are
encouraged, supported, and directed to bring the full vitality of nature into the food.
Such food brings with it a new quality of life capable of creating health, vitality, happi-
ness, and prosperity for the whole population. It is food that can sustain an enlightened,
Vedic consciousness in the society as a whole.

2 The Project must be kind and supportive to the environment. Instead of depleting or
polluting the resources of the area, a Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Project
replenishes them, creating a continually more vital and healthy environment in which
to grow food and live our lives.

3 The Project should produce wealth for the participants, their community, and the
nation as a whole. Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture recognizes that the Earth
is like a loving mother, who is ready to give wealth in abundance to those who care for
her and treat her with the respect due to the true provider of all our needs. Fulfilling
wealth can be created from the Earth by enlivening all the laws of nature and chan-
neling them for the benefit of crop and livestock production.

4 The Project should be beautiful, and inspire beauty and awe in its environment. The
harmony and symmetry of the Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design and layout of the
project should not only create waves of inspiration, but this harmony of design should,
in itself, inspire cosmic creative intelligence, the intelligence of natural law, to support
the individual projects as a true expression of the cosmic intelligence behind it.

5 The Project should create happiness. Maharishi writes that the purpose of life is the
expansion of happiness. Any project on which we focus our life energies should in
turn promote more happiness in our lives. It is on the basis of expanding happiness and
a deep nourishing satisfaction that the project will naturally move forward and bring
peace and prosperity to all involved.
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6 The Project should generate new knowledge in agriculture by combining the wis-
dom and insight into natural law of the traditional Vedic agriculture practices with
the scientific practices of modern, organic agriculture. This new knowledge is what will
elevate the project to higher and higher levels of success and allow each individual pro-
ject to make a contribution towards a greater wholeness of knowledge.

7 The Project should bring about the full personal development of all those involved,
bringing richness and satisfaction to both heart and mind, leading to a state of en-
lightenment and fulfilment on the individual, national, and global levels.

Beginning and Managing a

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Project
The Maharishi Vedic Procedures of Farming and Environmental Management, de-
scribed above, are implemented and certified through the Maharishi Vedic Organic
Agriculture Institute, and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Global Country of World
Peace. They can be applied on individual farm projects, on village or area projects, or
even on a state or national basis. These procedures are easy to implement, cost effective
for any farming budget, large or small, and effective for a comprehensive enhancement
of all types of farming and agricultural activities.
Procedures for training farmers in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi pro-
gramme will be provided by the authorized organizations teaching this programme in
over 100 countries, under the guidance and supervision of Maharishi Vedic Organic
Agriculture Institute. More information and contact details of the local Transcendental
Meditation organizations can be found on www.Globalcountry.org or www.TM.org or
by contacting the international or regional offices of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agricul-
ture Institute.
The Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Procedures of Farming and Environmental Man-
agement, including engaging the Vedic Pandits to perform Vedic Recitations, will be
arranged by the Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute. The size of the project
will determine the scale of the application of the procedures. Sufficient coherence has
to be generated through the practice of the Vedic technologies of consciousness in or-
der to achieve the transformations that are required. This is a subtle and pervasive sci-
ence, the knowledge of which is contained in the Vedic Yagya technologies themselves.
Individual farms, cooperatives, or agricultural and environmental projects wishing to
begin this programme should contact one of the international or regional offices of
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute listed in the Appendices.
The practical steps are as follows:
1. The farm or project should contact Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute
to set up an implementation plan, which will include organizing the training of the
programme participants in the Maharishi Technologies of Consciousness and the
implementation plan for the Maharishi Vedic Agriculture Procedures of Farming
and Environmental Management.
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2. The project should ensure that the organic standards of the nation where the prod-
ucts will be sold have been implemented and certified.
3. Smaller farms and even community gardens can participate in the programme either
individually or by forming cooperatives, whereby all the smaller units in the project
can take part through this organisational structure.
4. Agricultural educational institutions and programmes can contact the Institute about
courses and training programmes that can be offered in their institution, along with
published materials explaining the theory and practice of Maharishi Vedic Organic
Agriculture and Environmental Management.

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute

We need Vedic certification, certification beyond organic, for those who are really
aware of the quality of life. Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute was
founded for that purpose.
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute was founded under the inspiration
and guidance of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the full moon day of Guru
Purnima, July 17, 2000.
The Institute was founded to promote Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture through-
out the world through five channels of activity:
1. Educational programmes to promote the knowledge of Maharishi Vedic Organic
Agriculture;
2. Implementation and management of Vedic Agriculture procedures;
3. Research to verify the effectiveness of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture to create
the world’s purest and most vital foods;
4. Certification of Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture farms; and
5. Quality assurance for all Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture products and pro-
grammes.
Ministry of Agriculture
Global Country of World Peace
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Global Country of World Peace and its parent and
affiliated organizations will be the custodian of the Maharishi Vedic Organic Agricul-
ture Vedic Procedures of Farming and Environmental ManagementSM. These propri-
etary Vedic Procedures represent the knowledge of Vedic Agriculture as cognized and
revived by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. These are purely Vedic Technologies, which have
the power to enliven the full value of natural law—the complete range of natural law—
in the farmer, the food, and the environment.
The Ministry will manage or guide Vedic Agriculture projects around the world and
provide the necessary guidance and knowledge to ensure the purity and success of those
projects.
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 Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture

His Holiness
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Enlivening Total Natural Law
Vedic University

in the Eight Stages of the Life Cycle of a Plant

Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic Vedic
Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations Recitations

Planting First Rains Sprouting: First Full Spreading Flowering Fruiting New Crop
the Seeds or First branching or of the plant in of Seeds
in the Irrigation exposure differentiating Space
Earth to the Sun of the plant

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Appendix #2

Earth Water Fire Air Space Mind Intellect Ego

(P®ithiv¡) (Jal) (Agni) (Våyu) (Åkåsh) (Manas) (Buddhi) (Ahaµkår)
Enlarged Charts from the Brochure

Paraprakriti

Purusha

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His Holiness
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Tenfold STrucTure of naTural law wiThin aTma
Vedic University

Eight Swaras
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

a (A) I (I) ü (U) A (Â) lO (Òri) E (E) ao (O) a' (Aµ)

a; (Å) IR (⁄) Ë (¤) Å (Âi) lè (Òr¡) Ee (AI) aø (AU) a" (A˙)

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Eight Prakritis
Bh™mi Apah Agni Våyu Åkåsh Manas Buddhi Ahaµkår
Earth Water Fire Air Space Mind Intellect Ego

Mandal 2 Mandal 3 Mandal 4 Mandal 5 Mandal 6 Mandal 7 Mandal

Mandal 88 Mandal 9

Paraprakriti
(Mandal 1)

Purusha
(Mandal 10)
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His Holiness
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Tenfold STrucTure of naTural law wiThin ViShwa
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University

AHAMKARA 9th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

8 New seed
(Ego)
From the
Hollowness BUDDHI 8th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
7 Differentiation of Future Generation
of the Seed… (Intellect) from Present (Fruit and Seed)
Fruit

MANAS 7th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

6 Awareness in Plants of the Cycles
(Mind) of Nature and External Stimuli
(Flowers and Cell Tropisms)
Paraprakriti
(Mandal 1) AKASHA 6th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
5 Characteristic Spread of the Plant in
(Space) Space and Spaces within the Plant

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Purusha VAYU 5th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
(Mandal 10) 4 (Air) Lower Epidermal and Stomata
…Comes the Cells of Leaves
Respiration
Whole Tree
AGNI 4th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
3 (Fire) Upper epidermal cells of Leaves
Metabolism and Photosynthesis

APAH 3th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

2 (Water) Main channel is the stem
Fluid and Vascular Systems

1 BHUMI 2th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

(Earth) Foundation of the Plant in the
Root and the Earth
Structural Elements
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His Holiness
Tenfold STrucTure of naTural law wiThin The cow PhySiology
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University Head
8
7 6
From Neck
Consciousness 5

Paraprakriti 4
(Mandal 1) Chest 3
Purusha 2
(Mandal 10)
…Comes the

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Whole Physiology
Feet 1

BHUMI 2nd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda 6th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

1 (Earth) Solid Systems Musculoskeletal System
5 ÅKÅSH
(Space) Space Articular System (Joints)
Systems
JAL
2 (Water) 3rd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda 6 MANAS 7th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Fluid Systems Renal and Cardiovascular Systems (Mind Quality) Hypothalamus, Endocrine-Reproductive System

3 AGNI 4th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda 7 BUDDHI 8rd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

(Fire) Metabolic Systems Gastrointestinal System (Intellect Quality) Thalamus, Haematologic-Immunologic System
and Metabolism

4 VÅYU 5th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda AHA˜KÅR

8 (Ego 9nd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
(Air) Gaseous Systems Quality) Brain, Neurological System
Respiratory System
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Tenfold STrucTure of naTural law wiThin human PhySiology
His Holiness
MaHarisHi MaHesH Yogi
Founder of Maharishi
Vedic University AHA˜KÅR 9th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
8
8th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda BUDDHI (Ego Quality) Brain, Neurological System
Thalamus, Haematologic- 7
(Intellect Quality) MANAS 7th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Immunologic System 6 Head
(Mind Quality) Hypothalamus, Endocrine-Reproductive
From Consciousness System

Neck ÅKÅSH 6th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

5 (Space) Articular System (Joints)
Space Systems

Chest VÅYU 5th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

Paraprakriti 4 (Air) Respiratory System
(Mandal 1) Gaseous Systems
AGNI 4th Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
Abdomen 3 (Fire) Gastrointestinal System
Metabolic Systems and Metabolism

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Purusha
JAL 3rd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda
(Mandal 10) …Comes the Pelvis 2 Renal and Cardiovascular
(Water)
Whole Physiology Fluid Systems Systems

PRITHIV⁄ 2nd Ma∆dal of Âk Veda

Feet 1 Musculoskeletal System
(Earth)
Solid Systems
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Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute
International and Regional Offices
International Office, and South and South-East Asia
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute
Drs. John and Sara Konhaus
Brahmasthan of India
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +91 882 661 7456

Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute
Drs. David and Bev Seymour
PO Box 540
Robe SA 5276  Australia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 1300 759 355, +61 412 550 775

Europe and Africa

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute
Drs. Peter and Susie Swan
Station 24, 6063 NP
Vlodrop, Netherlands
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +31 475 53 95 07

North America
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute
Drs. Robert and Maureen Wynne
C/O Maharishi World Peace Vedic Organics
Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 641 469 7000

South America
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute
Dr. Jose Luis Alvarez
Station 24, 6063 NP
Vlodrop, Netherlands
Email: [email protected]

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