"The conversations recorded here with such love and fidelity will serve as an inspiring guide to higher states of consciousness for generations to come." --Dr. John Hagelin.

New book on development of consciousness now available
by Maharishi University of Management, The Review and MUM Press website
13 February 2015

The second volume containing transcripts of Maharishi's answers to questions by Vernon Katz on the Brahman Sutra has now been released by MUM Press. Titled Conversations with Maharishi: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Speaks about the Full Development of Human Consciousness, Volume 2, the new book also contains an index that covers both volumes.

In this highly anticipated follow-up to Volume One of Conversations with Maharishi—we again join Dr. Vernon Katz as he sits by Maharishi’s side and we listen in on these exhilarating conversations about the highest potential of human life. The fascinating insights into the Brahma Sutras can only be found within these pages.

The brilliant interchanges recorded in this book took place on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Mallorca and in the alpine splendour of Switzerland and France. Maharishi brings out fresh insights into his basic message of the primacy of consciousness and the unity of all things—encouraged by the discerning questions and comments of Dr. Katz.

New themes in this volume bring out the analytical and philosophical aspects of Maharishi’s teaching. In this and in so much else, Maharishi has bestowed an extraordinary legacy of knowledge for all humanity.

Vernon Katz is a trustee and a visiting professor at Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A. He earned a first class honours degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. His thesis on Indian philosophy was supervised by Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the eminent philosopher who became India’s second president.

In the early 1960’s Vernon assisted Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with his translation of and a commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita, which has sold over one million copies. Vernon also worked closely with Maharishi on his commentaries on the Brahma Sutra, as narrated in a number of the conversations in these volumes. He is currently completing a translation of the Upanishads with Thomas Egenes.

Dr. Bevan Morris has great appreciation for Dr. Katz and says, “In Dr. Katz, Maharishi was speaking to someone who understood him intellectually, with a heart full of love—a scholar who deeply appreciates and admires the profundity of Maharishi's utterances, which are Brahm Itself speaking its own reality.

"And it is our privilege through this new book to experience that totality of knowledge from Maharishi unfolding sentence by sentence. Thank you dear Vernon!”

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