"In recent days, a very famous and brilliant musician,
George Harrison, has left the world. George has been
associated with His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in
people's minds for over 30 years since he went to
Rishikesh to be with Maharishi in 1968.
"With the great outpouring of
respect for George Harrison, and his spiritual quality of
life, that has happened all around the world in a very
moving way in the past week, have come repeatedly the
images of George with Maharishi and George in Rishikesh.
There is just a very tender feeling of the world towards
the devotion that George had towards the great Vedic
wisdom of life that Maharishi had given to him all of
those years ago in Rishikesh, in Uttar Pradesh, on the
banks of the Ganges.
"George's association with
Maharishi continued even into recent years. He visited
Maharishi in Vlodrop in Holland a few years back, and
with great respect and tenderness met Maharishi only
briefly because he didn't feel he could take up much of
Maharishi's time. It was very sweet to see his humility,
that even though he so deeply appreciated the value of
being in Maharishi's presence, and having the chance to
talk to him and receive his blessings, he knew very well
that Maharishi had a thousand things to do every day for
world consciousness, morning to night.
"George was a very fine,
spiritual, humble, enlightened man. He also had performed
a beautiful concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London
for the Natural Law Party of Great Britain back in 1992.
He created a great wave of publicity for the deep
knowledge of Natural Law and the Unified Field of Natural
Law.
"So, for all his
contributions to world consciousness, we really feel
waves of love and gratitude to him, and we wish that the
whole world may follow his good example to look within to
find the infinite love that Maharishi explained to him is
the reality of every human being.
"The whole world should have
the chance to unfold that, as he knew it so well. When I
first went to Rishkesh in 1969, one year after George was
there, I was told by the leaders of Maharishi's academy
there that George Harrison was the one who knew all the
seven states of consciousness, so beautifully. He could
describe, as Maharishi described, very precisely, all the
seven states of consciousness. He had a very good
understanding of Maharishi's most profound Vedic teaching
to the world.
"So, let us hope that the
whole world moves in that beautiful inner direction, that
spiritual direction of life. The spiritual value of life
is just Transcendental Consciousness, it is just the
Unified Field, it is just the Self of everyone. And it is
the birth right of every human being to experience that
inner reality. Every human being on earth should know and
experience that the inner reality of their life is just
infinite bliss, and in that ocean of bliss, the whole
universe has emerged, is sustained, and it returns to
that.
"This is the reality that Maharishi
has been whispering to the world since the early 1950s on
the basis of the inspiration of his master, His Divinity
Brahmananda Saraswati, Jagad Guru Shankaracharya of
Jyotir Math in the Himalayas. This is the precious wisdom
that every human being on earth needs, and every student
needs in their education to live the life of infinite
bliss, which is indeed their birthright."
- Dr Bevan Morris. A Tribute to George
Harrison
on the global Maharishi Channel, December 6th,
2001.
