Celebration

Forty-Sixth Anniversary of Maharishi's First Arrival in Canada
21 October 2007, MERU, Holland

‘Exactly today on the Vijaya Dashami Day, the Day of Victory, when we are celebrating, we are commemorating, the day of my landing in Canada, I remember how many places I landed. I always landed on the same ground, the collective destiny of the people, and therefore I had no distinction to make on where I left and where I landed. There was no distinction, there was no difference. I don't remember any difference—what led me from this to this to this—except that I was led on by the big “I”. ’ —Maharishi

‘This is the story of my travel. I was travelling, but I was on a soft land of Guru Dev's blessings. Same thing came today. I was led on to wherever—led on. And I had nothing to speak other than what I spoke. I spoke, and I told the story of “I”. I was speaking. And who was speaking? The big “I” inside was projecting himself. So the voice was the voice in the beginning of the unknown “I”. The voice became the voice of the known “I”. Then I thought, small “I” is no longer valid. It was the big “I”, the big “I”, the Cosmic “I”, the “I” of the Light of God, the “I” of the Light of God. ’ —Maharishi

‘And now when I begin to look into the past, I remember what happened. The first such thing happened somewhere in Kerala, where I went from Uttar Kashi to Kerala, South India, and people wanted to learn this practice of meditation. I thought, “What to do, what to do, what to do?” Then I thought, “I should teach them all in the name of Guru Dev”. . . . That was my connection with the outside world. And there was no outside. All outside was well connected with inside—inside, outside, inside, outside. When we are celebrating in Canada my arrival first time—when I look back, how I was coming and where I was going and what I was doing—the whole thing was one uniformity, one uniformity. ’ —Maharishi

‘People sometimes in California said to me, “You are always talking the same thing.” One man said, “I have followed you seven places and I heard you talk the same thing.” I said I only know one thing, which is best, and that comes out of the mouth. What can I do? I have nothing else to say. So what was being projected was the power and the utter simplicity of the Grace of Guru Dev, omnipresent Grace of Guru Dev. ’ —Maharishi

‘Guru Dev was Totality—certainly total abstraction, but certainly realistically Total, Total. I was teaching Transcendental Consciousness, but Transcendental Consciousness was total consciousness. It included waking, dreaming, and sleeping, all the three states, Totality. And this Totality was Brahm. ’ —Maharishi

‘Reflecting on those forty-six years, I compare from this morning until this evening. The whole thing came about to be Puja (Vedic ceremony of gratitude) to Guru Dev. The day started with a song, Puja. The day ended with a song, Puja. The whole day from a level of consciousness to the same level of consciousness, but in the worldly way, completely different level of consciousness. It's the same level of consciousness—morning sun, same level of consciousness, evening sun. ’ —Maharishi

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