Mahesh Yogi Quotes & Sayings

When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Sleep in the bliss of God. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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 — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The highest state is laughter. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner. You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure
your happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern ... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the best means of elongating life — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear, — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The United States influences government and life everywhere else. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can
experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all
knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery? — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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 ... — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When you are appreciating creation as much as the Creator, then the Creator will ask, 'Who is appreciating my creation as much as me. Let me see this person.' — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

That which comes slow comes solid. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to come from? And he replied without hesitation, From wherever it is at the moment. — Deepak Chopra

Laughter is the language of the heart — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound. — Paul Horn

Inner life is Divine. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension ... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities ... When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Where is the money going to come from? From wherever it is at the moment. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. — Joe Perry

On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will belong to every man, love will dominate human society, truth and virtue will reign in the world, peace on earth will be permanent and all will live in fulfillment in fullness of life in God Consciousness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Personal love is concentrated universal love. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness.
The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.
The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make
best use out of every situation.
Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used
to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that.
Set your life around that goal.
Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In Thy fullness, my Lord,
Filled with thy grace,
For the purpose of union with Thee
And to satisfy and glorify Thy creation,
With thanks to Thee with all our hearts
And with all our love for Thee,
With all adoration for all Thy blessings
We accept thy gift as it has come to us.
The food is Thy blessing and in Thy service
We accept in all gratitude, my Lord. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much ... We just behave in a natural way. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine ... In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Surround yourself with those who are moving very quickly towards Unity. Be in the presence of those who are running forward. Besides the knowledge the Veda, the greatest thing we can do is be surrounded by those who are living and seeking the highest value of life, Brahmi Chetana. This is why yogic flying with groups is so much greater than flying alone. To live and work with others who are moving and aspiring fast towards Unity consciousness is the great force to help you achieve Unity. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

The secret of success in business is creativity. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Rest and activity are the steps of progress. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi