

ALLAHABAD: The epic Ramayan is a study into natural law and human physiology. All Vedas and Vedic literature are rooted in human physiology. No matter what nationality we are or what is our worldview, the story of Ramayan is taking place within each one of us at every moment. These views were expressed by Dr Bevan H. Morris , prime minister of the Maharishi Kingdom and president of Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield , Iowa, USA at the International seminar on 'Ramayan in Human Physiology' held under the aegis of Allahabad University Teachers' Association, Botany Dept Auditorium, University of Allahabad.

Dr Morris gave a detailed account of activities of the Maharishi University of Management, including transcendental meditation (TM), carried out and their scientific veracity being tested by scientists from various universities in the US. He said TM was gradually gaining recognition and ground in not only US and other North American Universities, South American countries like Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, West Indies and European nations, including United Kingdom, The Netherlands, etc.

After seeing the progress and benefits of TM Several governments have started funding schools offering this discipline. Students practising TM perform better not only in studies but also in social life. Governments in the Western societies, especially in the US and the UK, do not have any solution for the stress and mental trauma that school kids undergo.

Maharishi's Kingdom of World Peace based on Vedic Principles provides a solution to the ills dogging the Western society today, it was stated. Dr Morris also played a video based on Dr Tony Nader's book, 'Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature'.

Raja Dr Jose Alvarez (administrator) of Maharishi's programmes in 21 Countries in Latin America said the journey of understanding the Ramayan in context of the human physiology would give us profound insight into natural law. "We will see how social relationships in the Ramayan, such as those between parent and child, or between brothers and sisters , describe physiological realities. We will see a mother nourish, protect, and give love to her children, and how this relationship describes a physiological structure nourishing and protecting the part of the body corresponding to her children; and we will see how each of the different types of characters- Rishis, Devatas, Rakshasas, animals, etc.-all reflect distinct physiological structures and functions and how their actions and interaction portrays consistently the interactions of the human physiology".

