Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogiwas born Mahesh Prasad Varma and became known as Maharishi 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...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 January 1917
CountryIndia
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi quotes about
school past government
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.
attitude situation mental-attitude
We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.
reality vision world
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.
fighting light darkness
Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear,
persistence secret conviction
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
strong thinking wind
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...
enlightenment development fields
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.
progress steps activity
Rest and activity are the steps of progress.
minutes
TM in the a.m. and the p.m....20 minutes in the bank, all day in the market place.
mean goal meditation
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.
effort consciousness awareness
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.
mean meditation
Meditation is the best means of elongating life
good-luck luck timing
Good luck and good timing are the same thing.
evolution creation currents
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.