From Kriya to Gyan

Intention to Fully Unfold the Power of Silence: Gyan Shakti

by  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Address to the First European Parliament of National Leaders of the Global Country of World Peace, in MERU, Holland, 22 November 2007

Edited quotes from TM-Bulletin Volume 8, Issue No. 4; December 2007 published by Maharishi Health Education Center – Lebanon,

When 192 countries are superpowers, then the whole world becomes unified and one Global Country is administered by total administrative power. Total administrative power is in two sections: Total Knowledge and Total Activity—Gyan Shakti and Kriya Shakti. Kriya Shakti, divided in 192 sections, has worked out its own unification. “United Nations” was a word, but in actuality, it was still disunited. Now, so far, twenty-four countries of Europe together have risen to a state of invincibility. We want to hear this of all the 192 countries. So with all Europe rising to invincibility, somehow, the Gyan Shakti is awake. Gyan Shakti waking up is Kriya Shakti woken up. The theory of it is to be brought to the awareness of those who will be engaged in the field of action. So I am expressing my confidence on the achievements of all the enlightened nations in the world. Twenty-four will grow into 192, and we will have laid a complete, complete, deep, never-shareable foundation of invincibility in the changing times around.
Having been active for all these fifty years, the Kriya Shakti has woken up and has started to show the evidence of its waking up. With twenty-four countries rising to invincibility I am thinking of shifting my role from Kriya Shakti to Gyan Shakti, I feel the awakening of Kriya Shakti has been through my basing the Kriya Shakti in the Gyan Shakti. People opened up to their self-referral intelligence, Enough I say, but not complete yet in my assessment. Quite a lot of Kriya Shakti is woken up on the basis of, one-tenth, or I could even say one-fourth of the Gyan Shakti. And I feel now responsible to make that one-fourth of Gyan Shakti raised to 100% Gyan Shakti. And how it is going to be done? 

The field of Gyan Shakti, which we have realized to be Veda, and Veda we have realized to be the flow of Atma. And the flow of Atma has been put to practice from the level of Kriya Shakti, transcending: getting into the first stage of transcending, second stage of transcending, getting to Transcendental Consciousness, and stirring the Transcendental Consciousness to make it function through our intention on it. 

Now the Gyan Shakti, to be fully 100% awake what is needed remaining is the intellectual understanding, and I want to devote my time to that. And that, in simple words, is bringing out the commentary of the Veda. 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 Prakrit's:

Bhumi [earth], Apah [water], Anala or Agni [fire], Vāyu [air],
Kham or Akash [space],
 Manah [mind], Buddhi [intellect], Ahamkar [individual I]

I will devote my time, whatever is left, to the unfoldment of pure Gyan Shakti. 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.

To do the Gyan Shakti, I know how many pockets of different values of Gyan Shakti have to be brought to light and have to be put together in one glance I know what are the separate values of Gyan Shakti that have to be put together, and that will be my bringing to light the different united values of the Gyan Shakti. 

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 and Kriya Shakti. I have to open the petals of knowledge that are still calling me to put the attention and open the lotus flower petals. 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, 

Just that example: the lotus petals are closed. They will open up. And they only can be opened up from inside. Lotus petals have to be opened from inside, from the gap within, which is the level of pure knowledge. Opening will be through the Kriya Shakti, but something has to be there for Kriya Shakti to be opening, and this will be intellectual understanding of the whole Kriya Shakti. 

Why Kali Yuga came? Kali Yuga came, because Kriya Shakti became blurred. Nobody knew what to do. Everyone lost the Dharma, and losing Dharma, 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. And that I hope to do if time is allowed. 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. 

For Gyan Shakti to blossom, I have only to indicate, it’s not my intelligence that will do it. It is just that what I see, I speak—that’s all. So I have to speak what Atma blossoms into, the Veda; what Veda blossoms into, Vishwa, on this side. And what Atma blossoms into, on the other side: Brahm—Saguna Brahm—and Saguna Brahm blossoms into Nirguna Brahm. So Nirguna Brahm, Saguna Brahm. Atma, Veda, Vishwa, all expressions of the pure intelligence, 

Gyan Shakti—this I have to give to the world and that will be my total contribution. The day will not be long [for that], because the Kriya Shakti is lively. That will take me just to say what I see, say what I see. So that is the career that I have designed for myself—Gyan Shakti to blossom in its full. And as Gyan Shakti will blossom, Kriya Shakti will naturally be more and more blossomed. We are halfway to achievement of our target. Half way achievement of the target is Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnur, Guru Devo Maheshwara. This much we have achieved. What we have to achieve is Guru Sakshat Param Brahma. We have to see Brahm Sakshat personally, purely, clearly, vividly. We have to yet see the Grace of Guru Dev.