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MERU Course Participants Testimonials

Testimonials of some of the course participants that came to the MERU Assemblies in the past:

MERU is the most powerful place [to practice Yogic Flying in group] in Europe these days and Maharishi’s house has a very good, strong, and positive feeling. During the practice of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation I am going deep into pure consciousness and I gain a universal awareness.
The food here is great and the course and knowledge is very good. To be with all the people in the dining hall, flying hall, and Maharishi’s house is uplifting and blissful. —Jakob, Norway


After many weeks of hard work, I feel like the ten days I spent with you in MERU were a dream and I never lost the state of peace and love that [reminds me that] I am a true cosmic being. —Tania, Romania


My daughter and I have already been on several courses at MERU. It always feels like coming home. It only takes a short time to release the fatigue and stress from daily life. During Yogic Flying I often had the feeling [that] my body was only made of light and bliss.
The seven days of silence [at the beginning of the year] were very special this time because of the daily Yagyas of the Vedic Pandits, which really intensified our inner silence. Several times, particularly after the Vedic Pandits’ blessings, the thought came: ‘This is heaven!’
We are very grateful for the opportunity of going on these courses and many thanks to everyone involved in organizing and giving them. —Anke and Marlies, Germany


In 2011, I also [attended] the winter Assembly but this time with the recitation of the Vedic Pandits I can see how this year’s silence was much stronger.
First I had a little bit of stress; to find yourself in this state of silence takes a little while but after that, the experience was an experience of constant transcending. No, it was not an experience but a state of being in a more cosmic state almost twenty-four hours every day.
[At night] I slept well, [sometimes] a couple of hours [and] the rest of the time I was awake and had a feeling of lying on water. My body was sometimes asleep, I didn’t know where I was, somewhere else, sometimes everywhere.
When I came home the first thing my eleven year old daughter said was: ‘Dad, you are so soft, so warm, nothing is looking and feeling more soft and lovingly warm as you!’
Yes, I feel in my heart like a flower that opened and also now when I write this. —Johan, Holland

I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart who make this [Assembly] possible: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, all the Rajas and all the Ministers, the Vedic Pandits, the personnel, staff, planners, the house keepers, and all the ones that I may have left out.
Jay Guru Dev
—Johan Gelissen


During the recitation of the Vedic Pandits, I felt a warm and soft ‘something’. I cannot tell what it is. I saw a light, a beautiful light. That light is not a light that is in [the visible] spectrum, that normally can be seen with our eyes.
It overwhelmed all the other colours, pure and fine, finer than the finest I have ever seen. —Johan Gelissen


Another highlight was the course on ‘Ramayan in Human Physiology’ given by Maharaja himself, during which I got a deeper understanding and experience of what wholeness is.
Jai Guru Dev
Anke and Marlis Steffen, Germany


Thank you again for the beautiful silence week.
Hereby I send you some of my experiences:
Once, during activity (dinner), I felt within myself a silence and rest, and it was strong and very quiet.
When I was home again I felt a big and strong peaceful silence during my TM and TM-Sidhi programme.
Several tensions, sad emotions and tiredness disappeared during my meditations during the week of silence.
Now, after this week I feel more strong, confident and happy.
Jai Guru Dev
Geerke van Sprundel
Utrecht