Five hundred Vedic Pandits from India are practicing the Transcendental Meditation^® program and performing daily Vedic recitations in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa. In this city and nearby Fairfield, more than 1,000 local residents are also practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi^® technique, including Yogic Flying, twice each day. Together, they are close to having enough practitioners to achieve "The Maharishi Effect."

Lack of peace in the world threatens the safety, well-being, and progress of every individual and every government everywhere in the world. Creating the Maharishi Effect for America will bring safety to the world.

His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi began teaching the Transcendental Meditation (TM)^® technique more than 50 years ago. More than 6,000,000 people world-wide have learned TM.

"The Maharishi Effect" is the phenomenon of the rise of coherence in the collective consciousness of any community. The Maharishi Effect was discovered by social scientists in the USA in 1974 in four towns, where the number of people participating in the Transcendental Meditation program had reached 1% of the town's population.  They noted that when 1% of the town's population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique, the trend of rising crime rate was reversed, indicating increasing order and harmony. More than 50 scientific studies support the validity of the Maharishi Effect.

When groups practice the more powerful TM-Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, the Maharishi Effect is achieved with fewer practitioners-



The population of America is approximately 301 million. Therefore, approximately 1,735 practitioners of the TM-Sidhi program need to practice in groups twice each day. The number of daily practitioners in Iowa this month has fluctuated between 1481 and 1790. More practitioners are needed to create a stable group. 550 more Maharishi Vedic Pandits are in India, waiting for funding to come to America.

The Vedic Pandits live in comfortable accommodations build according to the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya-Veda(SM) (Vedic Architecture). Maharishi Sthapatya-Veda is architecture, planning, and building in accord with Natural Law. The Vedic Pandits also brought their cooks, who prepare nourishing Indian meals from all-organic ingredients. Much of their food is grown locally by students at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.

Maharishi called for Yogic Flyers to move to Iowa in July 2006 for the Invincible America Assembly. Maharishi said, "We do not know if peace will be there tomorrow. We do not know what news will come. If something is possible to do for peace tomorrow, then do it today. If it is possible to do it today, then do it now. The world has to be heaven. Our goal is heaven on earth."

If you would like to learn more or support the Maharishi Vedic Pandits, please visit the Maharishi Vedic City website.

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