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Maharishi Vedic Science (M.A.)

Courses

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• MVS 461 Maharishi Self-Pulse Reading

MVS 461 Maharishi Self-Pulse Reading: Assessing the Body’s Inner Intelligence through the Touch of Three Fingers on the Pulse

This course provides the theory and practical technique for detecting balance and imbalance in the body through the Maharishi Self-Pulse program. Students gain a thorough understanding of how the intelligence within the physiology is reflected in the pulse. The course also describes measures to correct imbalances before disease arises. Students not only learn to detect states of physiological balance and imbalance; they also learn how the Maharishi Self-Pulse program can create a balancing influence in any area of imbalance, spontaneously enhancing physiological integration. (4 credits) Prerequisite: acceptance to the MA in MVS

• MVS 504 Physiology, Consciousness, and the Veda

Physiology, Consciousness, and the Veda: Awakening Your Total Brain Potential

Learn how your brain is designed to be a perfect reflector of total Natural Law. See how consciousness structures the physiology and how the innumerable connections among our ten billion brain cells enable us to live higher states of consciousness. Measure your own growth of consciousness. (4 credits)

• MVS 509 Bhagavad-Gita Chapters 1–3

MVS 509 Bhagavad-Gita Chapters 1–3: The Principles of Dharma, the Eternal Nature of Life, and Effortlessness of Transcending as the Basis of Right Action

This course studies Maharishi’s commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita, which provides a systematic exposition of the development of human consciousness, its relationship to knowledge, and its application to improve the quality of individual and collective life. (4 credits)

• MVS 511 Bhagavad-Gita Chapters 4–6

MVS 511 Bhagavad-Gita Chapters 4–6: The Roles of Silence and Action, Knowledge and Experience, in Rising to Higher States of Consciousness

This course studies Maharishi’s commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita, which provides a systematic exposition of the development of human consciousness, its relationship to knowledge, and its application to improve the quality of individual and collective life. (4 credits)

• MVS 516 Science of Being and Art of Living

MVS 516: Science of Being and Art of Living: Maharishi’s Guide to Life in Enlightenment.

Science of Being and Art of Living was Maharishi’s first book, published in 1963. In this course, both through reading and through studying Maharishi’s video tapes, students investigate the main themes of the book — Being, the essential constituent of creation; how to contact and how to live Being; how to live one’s full potential, in thought, speech, action, and relationships; and God realization. (4 credits)

• MVS 525 Sanskrit and Maharishi Vedic Science

MVS 525 Sanskrit and Maharishi Vedic Science: Learning the Language of Nature and Understanding Principles of Natural Law

This course introduces the proper pronunciation and reading of classical Sanskrit — the language of the Vedic Literature. Students study Maharishi’s explanation of the role of Sanskrit as the language of Nature in his Vedic Science. (4 credits)

• MVS 526 Sanskrit

MVS 526 Sanskrit: Learning to Read the Vedic Literature to Enliven the Language of Nature Within (Prerequisite: MVS 525)

This course introduces the proper pronunciation and reading of classical Sanskrit — the language of the Vedic Literature. Students study Maharishi’s explanation of the role of Sanskrit as the language of Nature in his Vedic Science. (4 credits)

• MVS 540 Principles of Maharishi Vedic Science

Principles of Maharishi Vedic Science: The Self-Referral Dynamics of Consciousness

Discover the fabrics of immortality in your own physiology. Topics include the self-interacting dynamics of consciousness, the Constitution of the Universe, the forty aspects of the Veda and Vedic Literature, Maharishi’s Apaurusheya Bhashya, Rik Veda — the Constitution of the Universe, and Vedic Devata in the human physiology. (2-4 credits)

• MVS 544 Physics of Invincibility

Physics of Invincibility

The Constitution of the Universe is the most fundamental level of Natural Law, underlying the whole universe — manifest and unmanifest — and its holistic value is available in the Samhita of Rik Veda. The self-referral dynamics of its sequential unfoldment is a process of symmetry breaking, recently glimpsed by contemporary unified quantum field theory. This course will show how the historical development of the unified quantum field theory has been intimately concerned with resolving the apparent opposition between observer and observed. In this context, the student can readily understand how Maharishi Vedic Science completes and enriches the most sophisticated discoveries of advanced physics. (2 credits)

• MVS 552 Developing Brahman Consciousness

Developing Brahman Consciousness: Growing toward the Supreme Pinnacle of Human Evolution — All Experience Unified in the Self

This course covers Maharishi’s precise description of higher states of consciousness that arise naturally and spontaneously through practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. Personal experience, scientific research, and the record of ancient Vedic texts are used to understand higher states of consciousness. (4 credits)

• MVS 553 Discovery of Veda and Vedic Literature in Human Physiology

Discovery of Veda and Vedic Literature in Human Physiology: How Consciousness Creates Your World

Enjoy Maharishi’s unique insights into the structuring dynamics of the Vedic Literature as presented in the six Vedanga; and the criteria and methods of gaining accurate, complete and reliable knowledge, both intellectually and experientially as revealed by the six Upangas. This course illuminates the path to enlightenment and leads to an increasingly refined understanding and experience of the ultimate nature of reality. (4 credits)

• MVS 554 Maharishi Vedic Science and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Maharishi Vedic Science and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Students will explore universal principles of life expressed by Maharishi Vedic Science and the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The course will provide students the opportunity to study the following topics: The existence and nature of God; the main purpose of human life; the ultimate cause of all problems and suffering; turning within: the technology of transcending; the development of higher states of consciousness; and the creation of heaven on earth. (4 credits)

• MVS 555 Absolute Theory of Government

Ideal Administration: Alliance with Nature’s Government

This course will examine the methodology of creating a permanent state of world peace. Topics will include: the structure and function of the total potential of Natural Law — the Government of Nature; the significance of Collective Consciousness and its effect on government; the Global Country of World Peace; and, scientific research on Vedic technologies that align individual and national awareness with the infinite intelligence and creative power of Nature’s Government, which administers the universe with perfect order. (4 credits)

• MVS 556 Maharishi Vedic Science and Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism

Maharishi Vedic Science and Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism

Students explore universal principles of life expressed by Maharishi Vedic Science and the religions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The course gives students the opportunity to study the following topics: The existence and nature of God, the main purpose of human life, the ultimate cause of all problems and suffering, turning within and the technology of transcending, developing higher states of consciousness; and the creation of heaven on earth. (4 credits)

The content of this page was reviewed in January 2010.