Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes (90) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Born; 12 January 1918 – 5 February 2008), was born Mahesh Prasad Varma and obtained the honorifics Maharishi (meaning "enlightened spiritual one") and Yogi as an adult. He developed the Transcendental Meditation technique and was the leader and guru of a worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways including as a new religious movement and as non-religious.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas. The Maharishi credits Brahmananda Saraswati with inspiring his teachings. In 1955, the Maharishi began to introduce his Transcendental Deep Meditation (later renamed Transcendental Meditation) to India and the world. His first global tour began in 1958. His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he was sometimes referred to as the "giggling guru". In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to The Beatles and other celebrities. He started the TM-Sidhi programme, in the late 1970s that claimed to offer practitioners the ability to levitate and to create world peace.
The Maharishi is reported to have trained more than 40,000 TM teachers, taught the Transcendental Meditation technique to "more than five million people" and founded thousands of teaching centers and hundreds of colleges, universities and schools, while TM websites report tens of thousands learned the TM-Sidhi programme. His initiatives include schools and universities with campuses in several countries including India, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. See website for more info - http://www.maharishi.org/
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves. ”
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, The Science of Being and the Art of Living
"Success in anything is through happiness."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Ideal relationship is based on giving."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Be happy, healthy, and let all that love flow through your heart."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"That which comes slow comes solid."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Love opens all doors, no matter how closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Being happy is of the utmost importance."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but think that way anyway and it will help it come."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"What you see you become."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The secret of success in business is creativity. The urgent need in business today is to develop the field of creativity that lies deep within each individual. Through Transcendental Meditation the awareness of the individual comes into contact with this field of unlimited creativity, pure consciousness, the Constitution of the Universe."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Man is born to enjoy."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Enjoy your life and be happy."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"We are born only to bless, not to punish. This you should never forget. We should always see good things in others - very important. We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough. 'God helps those who help themselves.' - it's a very true saying. We are aware of darkness but for our own community we want to have Enlightenment."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Keep your desire turning back within and be patient."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"If we think of defeat, that's what we'll 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'll get."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Attend to your own inner-health and happiness."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"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."
― 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
"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."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"What you put your attention on grows strong in your life."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Personal love is concentrated universal love."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Only a new seed will yield a new crop."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Nine rules of life: Don't analyze. Don't complain. Don't compare yourself to others. Don't expect things to be done for you. Don't expect perfection in the relative. Look to the knowledge aspect daily. Own the movement. Problems are all in your head. Hold yourself together."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Nature supports right action."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Nature knows best how to organise."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Meditate and enjoy."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Life is here to enjoy."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"It may take a little self-discipline, be simple, be kind, stay rested."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Intend to have a better life. Just intention to have a more successful life. Think better."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Human nervous system is the greatest gift of the creator."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"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."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Fulfilment 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
"Everything is an expression of our own intelligence. Through simple, innocent, natural unbounded awareness - fullness of Self, all is accomplished; devotion, positive influence on the entire universe, nourishment of nature - thus gain the support of all the laws of nature, effectiveness, fulfilment of responsibility, togetherness in dynamism, revelation of underlying principles of life, following the routine without rigidity, elimination of individual's weaknesses."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Doubts are the dry rot of life."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Doubts are death."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Do not strain after your needs of life - it is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Decide what you want and don't think of intermediary conditions."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Competition is for the competent."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Allow the fulfilment to come to you."
― 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
"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."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"20 minutes in the bank, all day in the market place."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"What we have been saying from the beginning of the Movement has been unbelievable but it has come to be believed. 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
"Well, you see, it is like this. Absolutely everything is fixed, and absolutely everything can be changed at any time."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"We don't do what we know is wrong."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Water the root to enjoy the fruit."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"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."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Under all circumstances be happy, even if you have to force it a bit to change some long standing habits."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, in a right way, for maximum results."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"This is the whole aim of the Vedas: that no man engaged in the field of diversity--field of diversity means field of death, field of change--no man engaged in the field of change should ever be allowed to remain there all the time. He should be given the opportunity, his body and mind should be cultured so that imperishable state of eternal Being permeates all these changing phenomena in the relative world."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"There is nothing that can be said so certainly about stress except that the amount of rest produced will neutralise the corresponding intensity of stress."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The nature of life is to more and more."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfilment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"So transcendental meditation brings about transcendental consciousness, which is self-referral consciousness, the source of all intelligence."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"So if people do what they know to be good, the knowledge of good is enough in the world for them to be really happy and really peaceful and really remarkably friendly and supportive to everyone."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Sleep in the bliss of God. Feel love of God, Lie in the showers of his blessings. Let your heart melt in the love of God. Sleep in the love of God and in Love. Sleep in the warmth of Divine Grace, Without my words -- only in this feeling."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analysing 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
"Only we should not be influenced by the winds."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"One can be the master of one's own destiny if one follows the Vedic way of life, which is life according to natural law, which can prevent disorders."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Nature works in parallel ways."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"More support of nature comes from being happy."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Love in the heart of man is a shrine to God on Earth."
― 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
"Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where WE wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter..."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"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."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"I will fill the world with love and create Heaven on Earth."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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