25 Honouring and Preserving the Vedic Tradition of Nepal MODERN SCIENCE AND VEDIC SCIENCE AGREE The infinite diversity of creation is the expression of the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature which upholds all of life in perfect harmony. This unity of Natural Law can be enlivened in individual and collective consciousness through the practice of Maharishi Vedic Technologies. In the last quarter century modern science has begun to catch up with ancient wisdom. Physi- cists and physiologists have validated the time- less Vedic understandings of both the natural world and human consciousness. These dis- coveries have given scientific definition to an ageless truth: Nature and human nature are united at their source. In the Vedic science of consciousness as brought to light by Maharishi, the field of con- sciousness is defined as one underlying and completely unified field of pure intelligence that is the source of the entire natural world —an abstract, nonmaterial field of that can be directly contacted (and experienced) by the human mind. Further, Vedic Science indicates that con- sciousness, like every other aspect of nature, is an unbounded, all-pervasive field everywhere available—that it is, in fact, the most funda- mental of all the fields in nature, the source of both forces and matter—a concept corroborat- ed by the latest unified quantum field theories. From one standpoint, therefore, the human brain can be seen as an intricate broadcasting and receiving station for waves traversing this field of consciousness. This technology of consciousness that is read- ily available to everyone, offers our genera- tion the real possibility to create and maintain world peace permanently. YogaSutra2.35clearlysummarizesthisapproach in the words: TAT SANNIDHAU VAIRATYAGAH “In the vicinity of Yoga (the experience of the Transcendental Consciousness, the Unified Field) hostile, conflicting tendencies are eliminated.” Yoga Sutra 2.35 MODERN SCIENCE CONFIRMS THE VEDIC SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS