Sri Karunamayi, a lady saint affectionately known as Amma, blessed the participants in an Assembly of 10,000 for World Peace near Hyderabad, India.

Amma's message is simple: "Meditation is the best medication," she said. "All problems can be addressed by practicing meditation twice a day." Coherent Brain Functioning at the Assembly, the 10,000 experts engaged in long sessions, morning and evening, of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and advanced TM-Sidhi programs -- not to talk about peace but to actually create it. A highlight of the Assembly was a dramatic demonstration of brain-wave coherence using EEG (electroencephalography). Scientists showed how the practice produces immediate coherence in brain functioning in an individual that is then instantaneously and enormously enhanced by the meditation of thousands of practitioners gathered in the same location.

Amma is globally revered as a living saint -- the embodiment of divine motherly love -- and a humanitarian, peace leader, and spiritual teacher. In her talk, Amma emphasized the importance of "uniting science with spirituality for unity and sustainability in this new millennium, exactly as Dr Nader is doing as he leads the TM organizations throughout the world."
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Dr Nader commented, "Just as dear Amma-Ji said, no drop of love is ever wasted. Every moment anyone transcends even for a moment, they are giving nectar to the world." Dr Nader then reviewed how, as the decades passed and the transcendence of the TM experts deepened, scientists started to investigate from an objective level the extraordinary value of this subjective experience.
He said, "We are only a few in the world that transcend the way we do. This knowledge started under the banner of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement. As it became known, it was found to be wonderfully effective. As Amma-Ji said, more than 750 empirical studies on Transcendental Meditation have now verified scientifically the enormous value of this simple knowledge of transcending for every area of life."