What is Maharishi Open University?

Established in 1998 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi Open University offers distance education globally via the Internet and in many areas also by satellite. Our courses are for people from all walks of life, cultures, races, religions, and educational backgrounds. The first, historic Total Knowledge course was broadcast globally in 1998 by satellite to 15,000 people in 96 countries in Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish.

Educating people to not make mistakes: Throughout time the wise have wanted to educate people to not make mistakes, and achieve their desires without conflicting with those of others. Maharishi offers us, in Maharishi Open University, the means to achieve this dream through developing our total brain potential. Our full potential is the potential of the universe. It is the potential of all the organizing power, the administering intelligence, that governs this universe in perfect order. Under Maharishi's guidance, it was possible to discover that human physiology contains all this administering intelligence of the universe.

Such complete knowledge is not available in any other university. The knowledge of Maharishi Open University delves deeply into the mechanics of how Natural Law structures everything in the universe, including every human being. Every level of the physiology—the brain, the cells, even the DNA—has its cosmic counterparts in the sun, moon, planets, and stars. This is because the intelligence of Natural Law that structures and governs the whole galactic universe also structures and governs every level of our physiology and personality. All courses of Maharishi Open University help us grow quickly in full knowledge and experience of our true, cosmic nature.

Yatha pinde, tatha Brahmande.
‘As is the atom, so is the universe;
as is the body, so is the cosmic body.’

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Open University Programmes

Message from the Founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Universally valuable programmes

Maharishi’s Vedic Science—the complete science of consciousness offers the knowledge and experience of the total potential of Natural Law.

Learn about the historic discovery of Professor Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., the First Sovereign Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace, His Majesty Raja Raam, that the Individual Is Cosmic.

Global student experiences

Global MOU Study Centre photos

Consciousness is the most fundamental field of everyone’s life—no other university locates consciousness as the holistic basis of all knowledge. Find out about Consciousness-Based Education.

Development of consciousness—unfolding the inner genius of everyone—is the foundation of all courses. Learn about the Vedic Technologies of Consciousness—Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme. Summary of Scientific Research.