How to Produce a Life-Supporting Effect Through Every Thought and Action

Excerpted from a talk by Maharishi at Humboldt College, California, 1972

“The computer of cosmic intelligence, which is in charge of the whole creation…. There is that Almighty, omniscient, intelligence.

Human intelligence can take into account (a) hundred items: my home, my family, my friends, my job, and this and this and this and this. And so much, every item, should be properly handled and therefore my action should be this. If I act differently, my children may begin to grumble, friends may begin to grumble, office may collapse and something may happen.

The human computer can take into account so many things. But it’s beyond the human computing to take everything into account. And we have discussed some time ago how it is necessary for every action of ours to produce harmonious influence in our surroundings for everything. All the trees, mountains, this, this, this—everything should be nourished by what influence we produce, by every action of ours, by every thought of ours. 

And therefore, because it is not possible for us to be so alert—because it is not possible for us to be so alert to take into account so many things that are being influenced by our thought—that is why what we do is: we create a situation on the level of our awareness so that our awareness is on that level which is the level of cosmic intelligence which is automatically taking care of everything. That means: every activity that is taking place in nature is conducive to the maintenance of balance in the universe.

And when our awareness is placed on that level, then automatically all good will be computed, taking into account the life of all the billion things, and then the direction of our thought will come up—spontaneously that thought will come up. This is the safest procedure of being free from faults, being free from incapacities, being strong and faultless, right and fulfilling.

Because each life is connected with innumerable things around. And every action of each life has to be all-supporting. And therefore, the technique is that we leave our computing creative intelligence on the level of that enormously huge computer, which we don’t know how it has set everything in motion automatically—that is why we stop thinking about it—we just throw our awareness on that and act easily, innocently, comfortably without much botheration. Everything goes right, right, right.

So, this is knowledge. We are in possession of that knowledge which can make our awareness spontaneously suitable for producing (a) life-supporting effect through every thought and action of ours, and therefore we don’t have to be in danger of consciously or unconsciously creating sins, creating crimes, we don’t damage. Spontaneously we put ourself in a position (in which) automatically things will go right. This is our technique of TM.

(The) Technique of TM provides us with (a) huge, enormous computer which computes our daily requirement, all our activities, all our desires. It’s such a beautiful thing.”