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How does TM work? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi answers this question and recalls the importance and necessity for man to experience the transcendent in order to realize himself.
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Who are we ? Who am I ? What is transcendence?
How to answer the question: “Who am I?"
We often define ourselves by our body, our name, our date of birth. The only certainty of our existence is that we think: "I think therefore I am". We can deduce that the subject will be found at the source of our thoughts. But what do we know about the source of our thoughts?
This experience is not an intellectual process; it is a matter of starting from the grossest level of our thoughts and spontaneously returning to the source of thoughts, to the level of our absolute and transcendental being. It is a natural, simple, and easy experience that the Transcendental Meditation technique makes possible.
Experience of the Self
When we allow ourselves to experience this source at the simplest level of our consciousness, beyond thought, we call it 'transcendence'. Because it is an area of great calm and peace, free from thought, it is also called 'pure consciousness'.
Self-knowledge must come primarily through direct personal experience.
At the basis of action is thought, just as at the basis of thought is our absolute transcendental being
Transcendence, what is this?
Beyond action, beyond all thought, and at the source of thought is the transcendental being, pure consciousness, the realm from which all thought arises. It is the fundamental level of the individual, the subject, the 'I', which is also known as the realm of the Absolute, of love and supreme bliss.
It's all in us
Transcendence is the source of our thoughts, the source of all that is best in everyone, the source of all the most beautiful human values.
Happiness comes from this level of transcendence because love, peace, tranquillity, joy and energy come from this fundamental, absolute and unmanifest level.
Try transcendence
It is the direct and regularly repeated experience of this transcendence that leads us to evolve towards greater calm, peace, happiness, well-being, contentment, joy, love, energy and health.
Try transcendence twice a day, easily, without any effort, without forcing, in a natural way.
Simply restore the forgotten
For it is through this regular practice that we re-establish a normal and natural balance in our lives, for our own good and for the good of all.