110+ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes On Death, Education And Peaceful

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was an Indian philosopher, spiritual teacher, and guru who introduced Transcendental Meditation to the world in the 1950s. He was the leader and guru of the Transcendental Meditation movement, which became popular among celebrities in the 1960s and 1970s. Maharishi wrote several books on the practice and philosophy of Transcendental Meditation. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on death, education, love.

Top 10 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

1. Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.
2. Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.
3. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
4. Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
5. The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
6. Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.
7. We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.
8. It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.
9. Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.
10. The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Image Quotes

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Short Quotes

• The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
• Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
• The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.
• Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.
• Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.
• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
• Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
• Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.
• Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?
• Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes About Education

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. — 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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes About Love

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

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

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

Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Personal love is concentrated universal love. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The story of Love is the story of Love of Self. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. — 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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes About Life

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

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

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

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance. — 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

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes About Peaceful

We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace. — 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

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life. — 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

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes About Meditation

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth. — 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, a right way, for maximum results. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness. — 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

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

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes About Transcendental

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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. — 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

Be happy, healthy, and let all that love flow through your heart. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes About Happiness

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

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

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

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

Success in anything is through happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy! — 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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. — 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

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

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

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

The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and fall of communism, and the rise of democracy; and now we are witnessing the fall of democracy... the theme of the evolution of life continues, sweeping away with it all that does not blossom into perfection. — 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

Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss! — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body. — 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

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind. — 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

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

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

'God helps those who help themselves.' - it's a very true saying. — 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

If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness? — 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

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

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Only we should not be influenced by the winds. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Managers are the most creative people in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Only a new seed will yield a new crop. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical. — 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 knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. — 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

Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. — 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 fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything. — 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

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ideal relationship is based on giving. — 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

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

Laughter is the language of the heart — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In the field of knowledge is all possibility. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Water the root to enjoy the fruit. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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

Life Lessons by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi taught that true happiness comes from within, and that it is important to take time to cultivate inner peace and contentment.
2. He also believed in the power of meditation and its ability to help us connect with our inner selves and the universe.
3. Finally, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi encouraged us to live in the present moment, to be mindful of our thoughts and actions, and to strive for balance and harmony in our lives.