Quotes by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

About Maharishi Mahesh Yogi:

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was born Mahesh Prasad Varma and obtained the honorific Maharishi (meaning "Great Seer") 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.
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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.

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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

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

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

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.

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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

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 succes...

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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

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

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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 cons...

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

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

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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

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.

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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameMaharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • DescriptionInventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
  • BornJanuary 12, 1917
  • DiedFebruary 5, 2008
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Author