MAHARISHI -- "Now when the whole brain functions, the whole brain functions only when the abstract silence is directly experienced. That is transcendental consciousness. Only in the experience of transcendental consciousness, that holistic value of silence, only that makes the brain totally active. If that practice is not there, brain has no opportunity to function for its holistic value. Whether you understand it or not, let me repeat it. Only the abstract experience of silence, that is transcendental consciousness, only, only, thousand times say only. Only abstract silence directly experienced will make total brain function. And this total brain function supports each part of the brain with every other part of the brain.
Human brain has a cosmic potential, human brain. The Vedic exhortation about the human brain's efficiency is - YAD DURE TAD VANTIKE - whatever is far away is within you. But when it is within you? Only when you have trained your total brain to function, then only everything in the vast spread of the universe you can locate from within yourself, because your fully developed brain, your fully awakened brain has that awareness of the cosmic brain. This is the gift of the Vedic Tradition of Masters. This is wisdom of life: to train whole brain to function and then make it a constant feature that all the time through practice total brain functions. And in that state what is the gain? Whatever thought you will have, that will engage total creativity of natural law. A beautiful, beautiful gift of Total Knowledge. This is Vedic Education....."
GLOBAL PRESS CONFERENCE -- 19 March, 2003