Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God.

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

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

Laughter is the language of the heart

Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.

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.

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.

Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.

On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Competition is for the competent.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

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.