The mind, of course, is always concerned with other aspects, such as the physiology of the body, the environment, and the whole universe for that matter. But since Transcendental Meditation deals only with the performance of the mind, from its active states to its settled state, it remains unconcerned with those other aspects, though it deals with them all, because intelligence deals with them all. The settled state, as we know from physics, is the state of being from which nature's intelligence functions and administers the whole universe. The settled state is where we find the principle of least action, through which natural law operates. It is Important because it is the fundamental level of life.
Transcendence is the state where the mind has moved beyond everything other than itself.
That means it has transcended all kinds of activity, small and big, and it has settled down in its own authority, in its own sovereignty, into the unbounded dignity of its own intelligence. And in this state, transcendental consciousness turns out to be a lively field of all possibilities. We know the mind is always subject to its own nature, which is to evolve. Evolution is the essential nature of existence. The mind is always searching for more and more and more-more knowledge, more happiness.