Pioneer Research



The Vedic Pundits which stayed at Maharishi Vedic University confirmed the novel insight of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Rig Veda and presented the charts summarizing Maharishis Apaurusheya Bhashya at International conferences. An early supporter was Pundit Parameshvara Iyer (1978).



Graphical representation of Rig Veda
According to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Rig Veda in structure and content is its own commentary. This discovery implies a radical shift in the study, research and teaching of the Veda. Instead of interpreting and evaluating the Veda from an outside perspective
– which effectively means translating the Veda into the language of the particular point of view – rather, the Veda is accepted as a reality of its own which tells its own story not to someone else but projecting back onto itself. Since Veda is knowledge and knowledge is structured in consciousness, what is represented in the Veda is the process how knowledge emerges and unfolds within consciousness by virtue of being conscious. In this complexly self-referral situation, the Veda as a whole and every individual part and also the relation between part and whole reflect the phenomenon of self-referral. To cognize the self-referral of the Vedic expressions requires self-referral consciousness of the seer and also of the one who expresses the seen. On this basis, Maharishi Mash Yogi cooperated with graphic designer Klaus Fischer from 1975 to 1995.
"Unmanifest” is a word not used in everyday language. It needed Vedic Seers and modern scientists to recognizes that everything manifest is only possible by virtue of a hidden unexpressed reality, which manifests, when restricted in space, time and by causation. Both Veda and modern science are very clear about the unmanifest reality, which in physics is called “vacuum”, and in the Veda “avyakta”. The “vacuum” of theoretical physics is not empty but has infinite energy and assumes structures representing the organizing power to manifest. In the holistic context of both, Veda and science, the vacuum or Avyakta is a specific state which allows a spectrum of excited states to arise and relax again. This phenomenon of creation and destruction leaving the vacuum state intact (invariance) is cyclic and  described in mathematics as unitary transformation and in the Veda as Mandala.

Richa in the holistic context of Apaurusheya Bhashy (2011)
Suktas are the building blocks of Mandalas: The largest units of Suktas are the Richa; the sound representations of the self-interaction of consciousness. The Rig Veda describes the self-referral reality as Akshara, the indestructible transcendental field. The six systems of Indian philosophy, the six Upanga, lay out a systematic way to delineate the completeness of every Vedic expression: Nyaya gives the procedure for complete knowledge to unfold, Vaisheshika distinguishes 9 basic substances and their specific qualities, Samkhya enumerates the different components; Yoga, the fourth system, provides the way for the direct cognition, the fifth system, Karma Mimansa, analyses the dynamical structure the Vedic expressions, and the last system; Vedanta, shows that the reality underlying all Vedic expressions is absolute. In this way the six systems together test and prove the truth of every Vedic expression and the completeness of their presentation as layed out in the Apaurusheya Bhashya.


Ron  J. D. Parker
The PhD thesis of Ron Parker  on "The effects of cold dark matter on standard big bang nucleosynthesis" (1989) discusses the relationship between nucleosynthesis and cosmology in the light of Maharishi´s Vedic Science, an approach which presents the ancient knowledge and experience of the transcendental basis of life in the language of modern science. The discussion covers:


The cosmological research findings are published in Nuclear Physics B,329(2), 464-492 (1990) by John Hagelin and Ron Parker 

Michael Dillbeck and David Orme-Johnson
Vedic Psychology - The Cosmic Psychy


Anna Bonshek 
“Art, Creativity and Veda” – the subtitle of the book indicates that art and artist are the main focus; yet the book is important to students, researchers, and teachers of the Veda aswell. This is because it presents the novel approach to the ancient Vedic heritage of India developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918 – 2008) in cooperation with scientists and traditional Vedic pundits. The book is the first giving a detailed account of this development. It is shown that the Veda and the traditional Vedic literature is a highly developed science of Creative Intelligence which is of universal applicability and a catalyst to all styles of living, all cultures and religions, all organizations and governments. A presentation of the precise structure of the Veda is given in the chapters II, III, and IV: Chapter II presents the methodology how to effectively clean the mirror of consciousness so that its intrinsic Creative intelligence can function unobstructed. Chapter III shows in detail how the innate creative intelligence of consciousness expressed in the Veda does not need any explanations or even translation. The Veda is so complete in itself that it includes its own interpretation and application manual, therefore does not require any commentary. The self-explanatory property of the Veda is brought to light by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who called this phenomenon “uncreated commentary" - Apaurusheya Bhashya - Chapter IV describes the impact which the clear and expanded vision through Vedic Science has on human culture and its evolution. The first edition of the book is freely accessible in the internet archive. The depth and clarity of the book certainly is due to the fact that it is a further development of the dissertation of Anna Bonshek (1996)

Lee Fergusson

84 publications of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, printed between 1957 and 2017 are reviewed. Those books in which Apaurusheya Bhashya is explained can easily be located by inserting “Apaurusheya” or “Bhasya” into the search function of the review article's PDF. One finds, that the first extensive presentation on Apaurusheya Bhashya is in the book “Maharishi Vedic University: Inauguration”(1985). This 225-page book is “one of the most important and indispensable documents written by Maharishi on his Vedic Science.” The most elaborated presentation of the Apaurusheya Bhashya appeared in 1997 is in the book "Celebrating Perfection in Education”. Among the many publications of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, only very few are exclusively on Vedic Science. This is surprising since Veda is the foundation of the technologies of consciousness taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.; in particular Apaurusheya Bhashya is a novel scientific discovery. 
The review article on Maharishis printed works exist in two slightly different versions. “Researching Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: An Archive of Publications from 1957-2015” and “An Annotated Historic Survey of 84 Publications by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from 1957 to 2015”; both published open access. Under the first heading the article appeared in the Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute and with the second title in the "International Journal of Current Research”. Author is Lee Fergusson.

Research by Detlef Eichler

The purpose of a commentary (bhashya) is to speak about or explain those processes of the conscious mind which are instrumental in bringing about a certain expression but remain themselves unexpressed. Only when the hidden transformations are explicitly included as intrinsic part of expressions, then no additional explanations are needed. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918 - 2008) has recognized that the Veda has a structure, which includes its own commentary or explanation, and he calls the process how it is achieved Apaurusheya Bhashya – uncreated commentary. The key feature of the self-commentary of the Veda are the gaps between the expressing units - Akshara, Richa, Sukta, Mandala. The gaps where the transformation takes place are then also represented in terms of these units. The way how this process of self-explanation in Rig Veda starts has been noted down explicitly by Detlef Eichler (2002).  

The nine Richas of Sukta 1 of Rig Veda Samhita are compared to the same Richas in Maharishis Apaurusheya (as presented in “The Constitution of the Universe”,1992). The comparison uses the rules of Rig Veda Pratishakhya which include methods of restoring syllables “missing” in the Samhita. The Pratishakya describe that reality in which every part is in terms of the whole – unity in diversity – a character of Quantum Mechanics as well. From this perspective Samhita represents the compactified state of wholeness while Apaurusheshya Bhashya provides the all-pervading, ubiquitous field of all possibilities. In practice (e.g. in administration) this means: Every localized decision has the support of the full potential of wholeness. In this lies the importance of the purly linguistic research of Detlef Eichler(2022)

Veda as any other kind of knowledge is a dynamic pattern or flow taking place within consciousness. According to Maharish Mahesh Yogi in case of Veda this flow is self-explanatory because it is the nature of consciousnesses which expresses itself directly. Flow always starts from an area where a certain amount of forces has accumulated, a pressure has built up or desires are impelling the mind. Such a state may be labeled Fullness. This fullness expresses itself by "collapsing" or “relaxing” toward a state where there is no impulse of flow anymore and which may be labeled Zero or Emptiness. From this state again in a second phase of development gradually the state of fullness builds up again, Maharishis Apaurusheya Bhashya brings to light that on the level of the Language of Nature – Veda – there is a definite balanced relationship between fullness and emptiness. This overall symmetry can been formally described in terms of a Value of Fullness uniquely related to each Sukta. A precise formula has been found by Detlef Eichler which assigns to every Sukta a certain value ranging from fullness via emptiness back to fullness again. This formula provides a mathematical understanding of basic symmetries of Rig Veda expressed in tables compiled in the 1970s to illustrate the Aparusheshya Bhashxya as has been shown by Detlef Eichler (2018/2022).

This Pioneer Research leads to Advanced Research: 

The great Leape from Kriya to Gyan
On 22 November 2007 about two months before he departed from this world – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi clearly expressed the necessity to do more research into Apaurusheya Bhashya:
“I have not yet spelled out in complete clarity, from A to Z, the flow of the Veda in terms of the flow of eight Prakritis… 
I will have to lay out all the details of how Atma flows in terms of the Veda, how the first letter of Atma is the flow of Total Veda, and how Total Veda, on the level of knowledge, flows is the diversity of knowledge—all the Veda expanding to become the universe—how knowledge expands from its compactified state in one syllable “A”, from “A” to “Ma”, and Atma to Veda, and Veda to Vishwa, the universe, the intelligence part of it …. So in simple words, I will devote my time in the commentary of the Veda. 
I have done commentary on Bhagavad-Gita. It is a compactified state of Gyan Shakti, Kriya Shakti. I have to open the petals of knowledge that are still calling me to put the attention and open—open the lotus flower petals and make the petals in the opening. Nothing should remain hidden from view, either from the level of Being, from the level of intellect, from the level of mind, from the level of behavior—all these different values of knowledge, All suffering and all kinds of negativity all come up. This is because of the loss of Gyan Shakti, and 
loss of Gyan Shakti is a loss of the intellectual level. 
That I am going to undertake to do after expressing great satisfaction for those who are upholding the fort on the level of Kriya Shakti. And we’ll have Gyan Shakti floating, strengthening, as Gyan Shakti blossoms on the surface of the world consciousness."