Both modern science and vedic science inform us that the world around us contains deeper strata of natural law than those we perceive on the surface level of physical existence. At the deepest level, the foundation of the objective reality is the unified field of natural law, field of infinite dynamism and self-interaction, the field of pure intelligence in nature.
From the perspective of Maharishi's Vedic Psychology, the unified field is identified as the field of pure consciousness, the cosmic psyche. While modern science, especially physic, provides us only with an intellectual understanding of the unified field of natural law, vedic science offer technologies to directly experience the self-interacting dynamics of the unified field of natural law. Thus, the objective and subjective methodologies of gaining knowledge are evaluated, put face in face, to define the total knowledge and our possibilities to obtain and to become the knowers of reality.
From the beginning it is provided an understanding of what the true meaning of the word 'Ved' is. It is not a collection of books from ancient India, as is commonly assumed by most Western and Eastern scholars. The Ved is present at every point of creation, it is the underlying unified field of pure knowledge, of pure consciousness, from which all diversity emerges. From information theory we know that knowledge has organising power. Knowledge, which is structured in consciousness, supplies the consciousness with infinite organising power, antientropic and governing qualities, to be able not only to oppose easily the rise of entropy but also, by the atunement with natural law, to 'feed-before' and prevent the entropy.
On the self-interacting level of consciousness, the totality of natural law - the Ved - can be directly experienced as the unified state of knower, known and process of knowing, the three-in-one structure of the pure consciousness. From this main perspective of vedic science, further, the article gives an overview and analysis of the entire vedic literature and some fields of modern science, pinpointing on the desequilibrium in sciences today and arriving to the drawback of modern education.
It is suggested that the deficiencies in education today result from the knower's limited experience of his or her own infinite potential, and that these deficiencies can be eliminated by stabilising in the awareness of student and teacher the experience of the full potential of the mind, pure consciousness. While the presented charts of the unified field based models of different sciences are not only useful tools since more than a decade in education, but they can give ideas and directions for the design of different, even vertical, multi-layered modular neural networks.
One of the example of such mutual enrichment of different domains of sciences is well known in psychology like connectionism, to explain the possible structure of knowledge (memory) in human brain. After studying the individual physiology, we can define the model for the society or the 'physiology of the universe', the hardware of cosmic computer. This remarkable approach helps to uncover the intimate relationship between individual and society, matter and consciousness, etc...
We conclude with a consideration of the implications for society of a fully developed science and technology, and the huge field for research opened by this unified approach of vedic science, resulting different models of nature, physiology, mind, consciousness and society as a whole, which are already or in future need to be described. So, Vedic knowledge is emerging as the most profound science of life, and offers fulfillment to the human quest for perfection.
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A unified model for nature & body & mind & consciousness
Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology: The Science of Ved
Both modern science and Maharishi's Vedic Science inform us that the world around us contains deeper strata of natural law than those we perceive on the surface level of physical existence. At the deepest level, the foundation of the objective reality is the unified field of natural law, field of infinite dynamism and self-interaction, the field of pure intelligence in nature. From the perspective of Maharishi's Vedic Psychology, the unified field is identified as the field of pure consciousness, the cosmic psyche.
While modern science, especially physics, provides only an intellectual understanding of the unified field of natural law, Maharishi's Vedic Psychology offer direct experience of the self-interacting dynamics of the unified field of natural law, within everybody's own, level of consciousness. Moreover, such experience not only promises to transform the current understanding of the relationship between nature and human life. But, since with the experience of the self-interacting dynamics of consciousness comes also the ability to fully utilize the organizing power of nature it will help to develop and enrichment both individual and collective life.
Maharishi said, "The true meaning of the word Ved, is not a collection of books from ancient India, as is commonly assumed by most Western and Estern scholars. It is something entirely different. ... Ved means knowledge, complete knowledge, inclusive of all life. ... The Vedas, are the dynamic impulses of natural law existed before space and time, they are eternal and non-changing. ... The Ved is present at every point of creation, it is the underlying unified field of pure knowledge, of pure consciousness, from which all diversity emerges."
He explains that, "Man is not just a mass of cells, in his simplest, most refined states of consciousness, man is the total potential of natural law, the field of pure potentiality, the Ved." Maharishi continues, "There is some area within us from where thoughts and emotions arise, from where all behavior comes out. That is the area of the unified field within us; that is the Ved within us. ... Ved is not something separate from us, something to be studied in a library. The Ved - knowledge and its organizing power - is within us, it is the true nature of our own consciousness. ... The Ved or total knowledge is structured in consciousness. ... We want not only to understand the Ved intellectually; we want to know it on the level of direct experience as the self-interacting dynamics of our own consciousness."
Somehow it is in contrast with (Wallace 1993) "our immature, localized vision of modern classical science which does indeed see the body a mass of cells that somehow has had life breathed into it. Certainly modern science has desired to embrace the essence of life - to touch both the very small and the very large. But in this search for knowledge, however, it has adopted an objective methodology that obstructs its ability to see into the deepest subjective realms of life" and discover the pure field of consciousness. This gap was bridged by Maharishi's Vedic Science, it offers a knowledge and methodology that brings fulfillment to modern science.
There is nothing to be gained from reading the Vedic literature in the waking state of consciousness; we will only become confused by the description of nature's mechanics. But when someone attain higher states of consciousness, it becomes valuable to read and study intellectually the Vedic text, as a way to confirm the level of experience and knowledge gained in those states.
The sequential structure of Vedic literature holding the knowledge can direct as to organise the knowledge.
The Ved or total knowledge is structured in consciousness while we try to enter, move or teach the network to learn and pick up the knowledge from its memory. Since biology alone cannot explain memory, the cognitive perspective which informs us about our memory capabilities and limitations was asked to help to understand ourselves, at least on the intellectual level.
Starting from Maharishi Vedic Science, TM and TM-Sidhi menthal technique and new discoveries of modern science, we propose a unified model for nature & body & mind & consciousness.
The unified field, the basis for everything in creation, is like a 'superfoam' made up by heterotic strings which give to it a vibrational quality.
We appreciate that the universe is vibrational in essence, structured by layers beginning with the unified source and ending with our materialistic world, and there exist a profound connection between all the four, nature & body & mind & consciousness.
Maharishi asserts that knowledge is structured in consciousness. We can deduct that like memory is structured in the physical brain through diffrent neural networks so also, happens at subtle levels, in consciousness.
We can assume that the brain is a gross manifestation of the subtle brain, that the gross memory is a gross manifestation of subtle memory and there exist connection between them. Like gross neural network learn certain patterns, exist subtle neural networks which they also can learn certain patterns. Generalizing, we can define a collectivity of peoples like an entity with a body & mind & consciousness. Collective consciousness, resulting from the neural network of the individual consciouness of the members of the collective is the basis of that collective.
Therefore, studying the individual, we can extrapolate to the society as a whole.
Ferenc Conti, representing the International TM Organisation,
Angela Ungurianu, vice-president Ayur-Ved.
Conference in Cluj, Romania 1996
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