Maharishi Establishes Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace

Advertisements appearing in major financial newspapers, urging the wealthy to act now in order to prevent terrorism and war from destroying their own country

Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, 9th April 1999

A substantial advertisement is being placed in tomorrow's (Saturday 10th April) Financial Times calling on the world's wealthy to take responsibility for creating world peace by supporting a group of experts in the technologies of Natural Law, such as Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying - an approach to creating peace that has been validated by over 40 scientific research studies. What is happening in Yugoslavia can happen to any nation

Prompted by the unfolding horrors of war in Yugoslavia, the advertisement emphasises that this could happen anywhere. 'NATO has effectively legitimised the principle of foreign policy through violent attack,' the text reads. 'The result is that now bombardment can happen to any country in the world at any time. This is the reality - your city could be the next.' The advertisement urges the wealthy to 'be wise, for their own sake, to take advantage of proven technologies of peace' and notes that 'this is not charity, it is self-insurance.' The advertisement will appear in all international editions of the Financial Times as well as the British edition. Similar advertisements are being placed in the International Herald Tribune (10th April) and the Wall Street Journal (Monday 12th April). For UK press enquiries, or to arrange interviews, please ring 01296-662185.

The text of the advertisement follows:

ENDOWMENT FUND FOR PERPETUAL WORLD PEACE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST CALLED UPON

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who introduced Transcendental Meditation to the world forty years ago, and opened the gateway of enlightenment to millions of people, has now established the Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace to forever free our world family from the fear of terrorism, war, and destruction.

The horrors of war being witnessed in Yugoslavia are creating fear in the hearts of everyone everywhere. This crisis is a challenge to the wealthy of the world to save their own wealth and the life of all the people in their nation.

Today the UN has become a laughing stock, failing everywhere, and is ignored. So NATO has attempted to control the Yugoslavian situation with violence. But its bombardment has intensified the disaster, and created a new bloody history of the world. World peace is now in the hands of those with the power to destroy.

The danger to the world posed by NATO's bombardment is terrifying. It has set an example to every nation in the world-if you don't like another country, and they won't obey you, then bomb them and destroy them.

NATO has effectively legitimized the principle of foreign policy through violent attack. The result is that now bombardment can happen to any country in the world at any time. This is the reality-your city could be next. Therefore, can we wait even a single moment to establish world peace?

What is happening in Yugoslavia can happen to any Nation at any time

Can you imagine if bombs began to fall on Washington, D.C., and to destroy the high-rises of the money markets of New York? Will NATO be able to prevent this? When this happens it will be beyond the power even of the wealthy to save the situation.

When our house is in uncontrollable flames, it is too late to dig a well to get the water. Better to prevent the house from catching fire in the first place. A new approach to creating peace is urgently needed-one that prevents war. And if such an approach exists it must be tried.

Persuasion does not create peace - the UN has proven that. Violence does not create peace - NATO has proven that. In fact the whole human history has proven that neither of these approaches works.

So our choices are to accept war throughout the world as inevitable, or to do something new that really has been demonstrated to create indomitable world peace. Peace Can Only Be Created By Taking Recourse to Natural Law

The way to do it is to take recourse to Natural Law. It is possible now to create a powerful influence of coherence inside and outside of any country with a group of experts in the technologies of Natural Law (such as Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying).

The effectiveness of this approach has been demonstrated throughout human history and by many scientific research studies in the past 20 years in different small areas of the world. This approach will create such an integrated and harmonious world consciousness that violent thoughts will simply not arise, and there will be permanent world peace.

A German physicist Albert Einstein in 1939 proposed to President Roosevelt a weapon of mass destruction which was used to destroy Hiroshima, and has controlled the destiny of mankind ever since.

Now a young German scientist of this generation, Professor Volker Schanbacher, is proposing a new weapon of Natural Law which is nourishing and peace creating - a technology of peace which every Head-of-State can use to make his country the Country of World Peace, and erase the memory of Hiroshima, and the present disaster of NATO.

The choice now for our generation is whether to go for destruction, or rise above destructive power, and go for the nourishment of all life on earth through the technologies of Natural Law.

The Wealthy Should Wisely Protect Their Own Wealth and the Life of the Nation

The wealthy leaders of society would be well advised to ensure that they do not become subject to the influence of destruction that their governments are creating in the world. Otherwise the destroyer will become the destroyed, and the people of the nation, the wealth of the nation, and the life of the nation will be scattered to the winds.

The wealthy would be wise - for their own sake - to take advantage of the existence of proven technologies of peace. They should create an Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace to prevent terrorism and eliminate the fear of destruction. They should give 1% of their wealth to this Endowment Fund - thereby protecting the other 99% of their wealth - and simultaneously save the future of their country and the world. This is not only charity - it is self-insurance.

The Endowment Fund
for Perpetual World Peace

The time is now to establish the Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace in response to the global demand of people everywhere for the creation of world peace.

The income from this Fund will be used by the donors for one purpose alone - the training and maintenance of a permanent force of experts in creating World Peace - who create peace not by talking or by bombing but by radiating peace from the level of infinite peace in the unbounded ocean of consciousness within every human being.

Creators of the Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace may create their own family endowment fund in their name, and contribute the annual income from this fund to supporting a group of experts in the technologies of Natural Law. Or alternatively you may donate to the Maharishi Global Development Fund, which has established its own Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace, the income from which will support the peace creating groups.

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Maharishi Global Development Fund is a non-profit organization exempt from taxation in the United States under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations made to Maharishi Global Development Fund are tax deductible in the United States.

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Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace
Maharishi Global Development Fund
Suite 7967, One World Trade Center
New York, NY 10048, United States
Fax: +1-212-321 9191
E-mail: expansion@Maharishi-Fund.org
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