JMVRI Issue Number 10
JMVRI Issue Number Ten, as with the previous issue, starts with an article by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the supreme value of art and music, a re-printed chapter from The Unmanifest Canvas. The following two papers include a country report on the results of an ongoing educational peace initiative in Bali, and a paper presenting a mixed-methods study of social coherence in Cambodia between 1990 and 2008.
JMVRI Paper 10.2
Country Report: Bali A Vedic Land: Pulau Dewata, Island of the Gods
Author: Adam Delfiner
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
https://www.academia.edu/39776300/A_Vedic_land_Pulau_Dewata_Island_of_the_Gods
Citation: Delfiner, A. (2019). A Vedic land: Pulau dewata, island of the gods. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 10, 21-41.
Introduction
Known as Pulau Dewata or Island of the Gods, Bali in Indonesia is unlike anywhere else in the world. Bali is an island-state with a population of 4.2 million people completely dedicated to creating a sustainable, peaceful world. There is something about Bali, even more than the physical, divine beauty of the island itself, something subtler which draws people from around the world to visit Bali; something natural and universal to all human beings: the desire to experience greater peace, more happiness, to come back to the simplicity and boundlessness of the Self—an infinite or Cosmic Self. At the source of this abstract, yet undeniably strong, attraction to Bali, sits the Balinese culture, which is rooted in the knowledge and application of the ancient, eternal Vedas. Every day, all day, the people of Bali hold in their hearts as their highest focus a great expanse of knowledge that brings to light the underlying unity connecting all humans with one another, with nature, and with the divine.