maharishi mahesh yogi Quotes

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody’s inner personality.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness.

The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness – enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.

It is the purity of man’s heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone, which really succeeds in yielding maximum results with minimum effort.

Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness to a leaf by treating the leaf itself, whereas the solution lies in watering the root.

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.

If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

1-Don’t analyze. 2-Don’t complain. 3-Don’t compare yourself to others. 4-Don’t expect things to be done for you. 5-Don’t expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.

If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature.

Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.

Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but think that way anyway and it will help it come. Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness.

If we think of defeat, that’s what we will get. If we are undecided then nothing will happen for us. We must just pick something great to do, and then do it. Never think of failure at all, for as we think now, that’s what we will get.

With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.

When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self – everything is the expression of my own Self.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love. It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply. It is not the movements of our body or the words within our minds that transmit love. We love from heart to heart.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. ‘Natural law,’ we say from the field of science. ‘Will of God,’ we say from the field of religion. It’s the same thing.

Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn’t help us grow and improve our life. It’s not worth it.

Let the standard of everybody’s mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation.

If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him...

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.

Decide what you want and don’t think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one’s personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories – worldly and divine.

The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn’t matter.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it’s our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.

All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.

Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that – start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.

Ideal relationship is based on giving.

Life is here to Enjoy!

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

We don’t do what we know is wrong.

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn’t touch me, all those remarks.

Meditation is the best means of elongating life.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

Where is the money going to come from? From wherever it is at the moment.

Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind.

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.

There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.

One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible – no one can resist it.

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

Behaviour arises from the level of one’s consciousness.

Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don’t see it. It is within you.

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

Master of the universe is every man’s potential insight, cosmic potential.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.

Day after day, we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being.

If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life...

Only we should not be influenced by the winds.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.

That which comes slow comes solid.

Good luck and good timing are the same thing.

The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

Personal love is concentrated universal love.

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

Mind is a wave of the ocean of Being.

Competition is for the competent.

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say.

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

Success in anything is through happiness.

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.

Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss.

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

Only a new seed will yield a new crop.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

If you’re too busy to meditate twice a day, you’re just too busy.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

The nature of life is to grow.

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.