On Vijaya Dasham¡—the Day of Victory in the Vedic Calendar—Maharishi presides over a grand worldwide flag-raising ceremony, including seven islands (in different oceans and seas) that are solely dedicated to world peace. The flags of 7,000 cultural traditions of the world were raised alongside the lag of the Global Country of World Peace. Maharishi emphasizes that Each flag is the concrete expression of the awakening of total Natural Law in the area.’

Thousands of university students in the US are inspired to learn Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation, and hundreds of younger students begin to experience its benefits.

Maharishi guides the government of Guinea Bissau to become a member state of Maharishi’s Global country of World Peace.

2006 Maharishi’s Year of Reconstruction for the Whole World to be Heaven on Earth—First Year of Sat-Yuga: 12–14 January, Maharishi presides over a three-day worldwide inauguration of the World Capital of Peace in the Brahma-Sthan of India, centre of India, and gives to he world Royal Decree Number Twenty-one of Maharaja Nader Raam, First Ruler of Maharishi’s Global Country of World Peace. Maharishi declares: We have the decree of His Majesty Maharaja Nader Raam. It has laid out the path of action for this year, 2006, and will always be the guiding light of activity of every generation. This has uncovered the new destiny of mankind. This decree of Maharaja Nader Raam has opened the gateway for the reconstruction of the world in every sense of it—reconstruction of the physical world, reconstruction of the mental world, reconstruction of the intellectual world— on the exalted state of the spiritual value of life, which is bliss eternal. This decree has opened the gate of all peace, prosperity, and fulfillment and will open the gate of invincibility for every nation, with the onset of the support of the Constitution of the Universe to all our existing constitutions of the governments of our world. We are blessed with this decree.’

Maharishi’s Parliament of World Peace convenes in the Brahma-Sthan of India and MERU, Holland, for twelve sessions of 144 presentations, lasting from 5 February to 23 March, broadcast worldwide. The focus of these sessions is national invincibility in reference to the twelve disciplines of Maharishi’s Vedic Science, the science of consciousness, the Light of God sung throughout the ages in the holy texts of all religions.

Maharishi plans for the creation of a permanent group of 24,000 peace-creating experts at the Brahma- Sthan (centre) of India, and 1,008 peace-creating experts in each of 256 cities across India, where peace colonies—Brahmanand Saraswati Nagar—are being established. The establishment of these groups will exceed all previous groups in peace-creating power. Through their performance of Yoga and daily Yagyas for the invincibility of every nation, the whole world will enjoy higher states of consciousness and lasting peace.