What Visitors Are Saying

Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage, Trivandrum, India, scientist in Regional Research Laboratory of the council of Scientific and Industrial Research, “Respected teachers of my motherland's knowledge, I bow my head before you all for the sincerity and devotion you all have in the mission of spreading the great message a great guru of a great nation for the greatness of the nations. I shall always cherish the great memories of my experience with you all.”

Sarv and Vichitra Nayyar, owner, Chitrahar Broadcasting, Chicago, IL, “It was such a wonderful experience visiting M.U.M. and Maharishi Vedic City. Everyone was so cordial and friendly. Best of all, the class of students we met was several cuts above the best seen around. We were so happy to be there. We haven’t felt so good in a long time. Dr. Hartmann’s presentation on Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design, the visit to the Brain Research Institute, Vedic Observatory and the Sitar Recital by Professor Chaudhuri was particularly gratifying. We soaked in an incredible amount of brand new information in a very short time. The diagnosis and therapies by Dr. Sands at your Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health Clinic were rejuvenating indeed!”

Dr. Hari Sharma, Professor Emeritus and Former Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Natural Products Research in the Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University: “Maharishi University of Management had been the only university to offer holistic education at the bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. levels. Your graduates from the different areas have been integrated in all levels of society and are contributing significantly to the betterment of society throughout the world. Your Faculty has gained national and international recognition and has excelled in all subjects taught at the University.”

Harish Bhaskas, Store Owner, NC and parent of M.U.M. student, “ I was much more impressed than I thought I would be. Between the Vedic University, the structure of the classes, Raam Mudra in Maharishi Vedic City, so many things have been achieved that in the long run it will make its mark on American society. You have the right kind of people there. It will work. 500 Vedic Pandits coming to Maharishi Vedic City will revolutionize the whole operation.

“Most education elsewhere is to create people to join the work force. People are asked to think when they are too young and they get misguided. I feel that my son has made the right choice coming to Maharishi University of Management. He has become a responsible citizen. His field of choice is immaterial.”

Mr. Ramesh Patel, M.D. FACOG, retired medical doctor, Jessup, PA, Fellow American College of Surgeons, former Assistant Professor Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, department of OBGYN, author of several textbook chapters in obstetrics and gynecology, listed in the top Consumer Research Council of America 2002-3.

“If you haven’t visited Maharishi Vedic City and the campus of Maharishi University of Management, you have not lived!

Sending my son to college at M.U.M. is the greatest thing I ever did in the world! There are many kinds of meditation, but if you don’t have Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi, you don’t have anything.

His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano, President of Mozambique. “When I learned about Maharishi University of Management, I did not realize the greatness of this institution of education. I sent this University the first Mozambican students simply by the description of the wonderful courses given there and of the environment of peace, happiness, and friendship promised to the students.

“Today I admire Maharishi University of Management as I can see a living testimony of its effectiveness in the Mozambican students who came to pay me a visit during their holidays. Because I knew them before, I easily felt the remarkable change created in them by their two years at the University. They were more confident in themselves, more confident of their capabilities. They gave me the impression that their consciousness had developed quickly and their creative potential was unfolding.

Terry Branstad, Governor of Iowa 1983-1999: “Maharishi University of Management has achieved remarkable growth and international recognition and has had a profound influence on the present and future well-being of its home community of Fairfield. Its ambitious course for the future, including the development of expanded global programs, will contribute to the pursuit of knowledge and harmony.”

Dr. Harvey Brooks, Massachusetts, Professor of Technology and Public Policy (Emeritus), Professor of Applied Physics (Emeritus), Harvard University, served on the President’s Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, 1959-1964, and was a two-team member of the National Science Board, 1962-1974. “In an age when collective consciousness and a strong sense of community and common purpose even in localized communities have been increasingly falling out of fashion, Maharishi has succeeded in creating a worldwide community of people from many nationalities and cultural traditions, a community that has attempted with considerable, indeed surprising, success to emphasize human solidarity and interests transcending self, while still respecting individuality and self-development, and demonstrating that full self-realization is not only compatible with but is also reinforced by a strong sense of community, mutual respect, and a whole that is much more than the sum of individuals.”

Professor Aliza Shenar, President, Emek Yezreel College, Emek Yezreel, Israel and former Israel Ambasador to the Russian Federation. “Alienation from the academic ivory tower represents one of the most difficult problems facing large universities. What impressed me about Maharishi University was the pleasant campus atmosphere in which each man or woman is the ultimate measure of all things. A large university cannot offer what a small, intimate institution provides—a humanistic and personal approach to each student.

“The sanctity of life and equality based on the notion that all people are created in God’s image, are the conceptual cornerstones of humanistic education, and it seemed to me that they were located squarely at the heart of the Maharishi University Experience.”

“I love living in Fairfield and I would encourage anyone to come and live here. Bring your business, be a student at M.U.M., or retire here. Any reason is good enough, because Fairfield is the best place to be!”

— Sooneeta Eisner