19 May 1999

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has warned that only Natural Law can save Europe from destroying itself. In an address to press conferences all over Europe on 12 May to launch the Natural Law Party's European Parliament election campaign, Maharishi made a very strong appeal to the people of Europe to leave behind the barbaric history of the continent and to vote for the Natural Law Party for a secure peaceful future of unity and happiness.

The holistic knowledge of Natural Law available today through Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology of Consciousness has inspired many of the policies of the Natural Law Party, which bring all aspects of life in accord with Natural Law to create an ideal problem-free society. Over the past 40 years, this knowledge has been applied in education, health, business and all areas of society with great benefit, and Maharishi is widely recognised for his immense contribution to life and progress throughout the world.

"This European Union election is the election that presents a challenge: whether Europe remains a barbarian continent, or whether it steps on to a more civilised level of harmony, love, unity, happiness," Maharishi said.

In particular Maharishi had strong words for the British and American governments for their role in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. "Throughout the ages, countries have been destroying other countries," he said. "It is a bloody history of the world. Europe, as a combination of so many cultures, is no exception to it. Europe has known wars, it has known Hitlers. Now Europe is faced with another Hitler - the American government. It is very wise for the people of Europe to be awake to their responsibility for the existence of their own individual countries, and join together so that no country pounces on another country and destroys it."

At this point Maharishi was reminded, by a question from the press conference in London, that it is usually President Milosevic who is being labelled as another Hitler, because of his programme of ethnic cleansing. Maharishi's reply was straight to the point and he reserved his strongest condemnation for Britain's role: "No one on earth can justify destruction. Today, we have a unified destruction created by Britishers and Americans. Britishers and Americans are responsible for the action of NATO, and that is why I tell you what the world thinks of them today. Britain and America are hated by the people. The press of Britain or America will not be able to wash off this dirtiness of British policy. No one will be able to wash it off. The countrymen have to bear the consequences."

In further comments Maharishi said: "Britain today can destroy the world. But remember, it is a scientific law that reaction is equal to action. The destroyer will be destroyed. Tell this openly to the British press, and to the government of Britain, in relation to the promotion of destruction that Britain is bringing in the world."

Nevertheless, the main purpose of Maharishi's address was not to castigate the NATO governments, but to emphasise the need for administration based on Natural Law. Why? Because only Natural Law has the ability to unify differences into a harmonious whole, without any loss of individuality for the different parts. "The unity of all different political systems is a very pious purpose. I emphasise that only the Natural Law Party's administration can be evolutionary for all, because it is only Natural Law that administers the infinite diversity of the universe with perfect order. No other party - let me repeat it to the press, to the people of Europe - no other party is as generous, as competent and as ideal to keep all differences on a unified level."

This type of unity is very different, Maharishi said, from the destructive unity that is currently being fostered in Europe, where "all the countries that are administering Europe in the name of a unified Europe have joined hands to be united in destroying parts of Europe." He emphasised that what has happened in Yugoslavia can happen in every country. No country is an exception to this. For this reason many NATO members are feeling hesitant to join in the destruction of Yugoslavia. "But the unity of these countries is being used to destroy the world. It is very shameful. It is inhuman. It is a sin to do it.," Maharishi said.

Peace will never be stable while it is based on money

Maharishi pointed out that although the purpose of European Union administration is to create peace, peace will never be real as long as it is based on money. "Anything based on money is based on greediness - how much I can take from this or from that. On the basis of economy, unity can never be stable. It can only be stable on that one element of Natural Law, because Natural Law is equally evolutionary for everyone and everything, for every nation and every individual."

The way to create peace in Europe, Maharishi said, is to use the technologies of Natural Law, which can be applied to the practicalities of life of every nation and every individual. Maharishi emphasised the need to establish groups of Yogic Flyers, 7,000 strong, in every country. Extensive scientific research has shown conclusively that this programme allows an influence of peace to be radiated throughout society, from the consciousness of the Yogic Flyers.

Every country invited to be a country of world peace

Maharishi said: "We have the total knowledge of Natural Law and we can create perpetual world peace. I would ask every country to declare itself to be a country of world peace. Every country should establish peace and harmony on the collective level of the national consciousness of all countries by setting up groups of Yogic Flyers. Yogic Flying is no longer a new phenomenon; it has been there for the last 15 years. Therefore, if this generation of today wants to be a generation of tomorrow, it is time for the people to create Yogic Flyers in every country, and establish the rule of Natural Law in all the countries. Administration will be as efficient as the administration of the universe, where the sun, moon, galaxies, and so on, all function differently but all function together. This kind of unity can be created by the people in this coming election of European nations."  

Maharishi emphasised several times that survival of the continent is at stake. "I wish that Europe exists tomorrow. I wish that Europe exists as Europe, next day, next year, next decade and next century. It is in the hands of the people, individual Europeans today, whether they want the continent to be inhabited by human beings. If so, create the administration through Natural Law. In that way Europe can continue, otherwise it is collapsing."