____________________________________________ MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF NATURAL LAW PARTIES NEWS SERVICE Markt 1 Ы 6063 AC Vlodrop Ы The Netherlands Tel.: +31-475-404111 Ы Fax: +31-475-403642 ____________________________________________ 9 April 1999 The following is the text of an announcement that is being placed in all editions of tomorrow's "Financial Times" (Saturday 10 April 1999): ENDOWMENT FUND FOR PERPETUAL WORLD PEACE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST CALLED UPON His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who introduced Transcendental Meditation to the world forty years ago, and opened the gateway of enlightenment to millions of people, has now established the Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace to forever free our world family from the fear of terrorism, war, and destruction. The horrors of war being witnessed in Yugoslavia are creating fear in the hearts of everyone everywhere. This crisis is a challenge to the wealthy of the world to save their own wealth and the life of all the people in their nation. Today the UN has become a laughing stock, failing everywhere, and is ignored. So NATO has attempted to control the Yugoslavian situation with violence. But its bombardment has intensified the disaster, and created a new bloody history of the world. World peace is now in the hands of those with the power to destroy. The danger to the world posed by NATO's bombardment is terrifying. It has set an example to every nation in the world - if you don't like another country, and they won't obey you, then bomb them and destroy them. NATO has effectively legitimized the principle of foreign policy through violent attack. The result is that now bombardment can happen to any country in the world at any time. This is the reality - your city could be next. Therefore, can we wait even a single moment to establish world peace? What is Happening In Yugoslavia Can Happen To Any Nation At Any Time Can you imagine if bombs began to fall on Washington, D.C., and to destroy the high-rises of the money markets of New York? Will NATO be able to prevent this? When this happens it will be beyond the power even of the wealthy to save the situation. When our house is in uncontrollable flames, it is too late to dig a well to get the water. Better to prevent the house from catching fire in the first place. A new approach to creating peace is urgently needed - one that prevents war. And if such an approach exists it must be tried. Persuasion does not create peace - the UN has proven that. Violence does not create peace - NATO has proven that. In fact the whole human history has proven that neither of these approaches works. So our choices are to accept war throughout the world as inevitable, or to do something new that really has been demonstrated to create indomitable world peace. Peace Can Only Be Created By Taking Recourse to Natural Law The way to do it is to take recourse to Natural Law. It is possible now to create a powerful influence of coherence inside and outside of any country with a group of experts in the technologies of Natural Law (such as Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying). The effectiveness of this approach has been demonstrated throughout human history and by many scientific research studies in the past 20 years in different small areas of the world. This approach will create such an integrated and harmonious world consciousness that violent thoughts will simply not arise, and there will be permanent world peace. A German physicist Albert Einstein in 1939 proposed to President Roosevelt a weapon of mass destruction which was used to destroy Hiroshima, and has controlled the destiny of mankind ever since. Now a young German scientist of this generation, Professor Volker Schanbacher, is proposing a new weapon of Natural Law which is nourishing and peace creating - a technology of peace which every Head-of-State can use to make his country the Country of World Peace, and erase the memory of Hiroshima, and the present disaster of NATO. The choice now for our generation is whether to go for destruction, or rise above destructive power, and go for the nourishment of all life on earth through the technologies of Natural Law. The Wealthy Should Wisely Protect Their Own Wealth and the Life of the Nation The wealthy leaders of society would be well advised to ensure that they do not become subject to the influence of destruction that their governments are creating in the world. Otherwise the destroyer will become the destroyed, and the people of the nation, the wealth of the nation, and the life of the nation will be scattered to the winds. The wealthy would be wise - for their own sake - to take advantage of the existence of proven technologies of peace. They should create an Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace to prevent terrorism and eliminate the fear of destruction. They should give 1% of their wealth to this Endowment Fund - thereby protecting the other 99% of their wealth - and simultaneously save the future of their country and the world. This is not only charity - it is self-insurance. The Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace The time is now to establish the Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace in response to the global demand of people everywhere for the creation of world peace. The income from this Fund will be used by the donors for one purpose alone - the training and maintenance of a permanent force of experts in creating World Peace - who create peace not by talking or by bombing but by radiating peace from the level of infinite peace in the unbounded ocean of consciousness within every human being. Creators of the Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace may create their own family endowment fund in their name, and contribute the annual income from this fund to supporting a group of experts in the technologies of Natural Law. Or alternatively you may donate to the Maharishi Global Development Fund, which has established its own Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace, the income from which will support the peace creating groups. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Maharishi Global Development Fund is a non-profit organization exempt from taxation in the United States under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations made to Maharishi Global Development Fund are tax deductible in the United States. For Further Information Write, Fax or E-mail to: Endowment Fund for Perpetual World Peace Maharishi Global Development Fund Suite 7967, One World Trade Center New York, NY 10048, United States Fax: +1-212-321 9191 E-mail: expansion@Maharishi-Fund.org
