Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (January 12, 1918 – February 5, 2008), introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique (also known as TM) and related programs and initiatives, including schools and universities with campuses in countries around the world.

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• 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. It's a program that the mind begins to experience its own finer impressions, finer thoughts, and then finally transcends the finest thought. And that is the level of what they call self-referral pure consciousness, which is the ultimate reality of life, pure intelligence from where the creation emerges, from where the administration of life is maintained, from where physical expression of the universe has its basis.
• I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
• I believe in God. And I believe in the custody of God vested in kings. And I'm very happy to have your name as "King." It's the King!
• They think democracy -- I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.
  • w:Larry King Weekend, Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (2002-05-12) [1]
• I am closing my performance.
  • Foundation of the Brahmanand Saraswati Trust, four weeks before his death.(2008-01-11) Achievements 1957-2008

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• Life is Bliss.
• Man is born to enjoy.
• Expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation.
• EVERY DAY IS LIFE. It is not that we pass on the present for some glorious future. We are working out Unity, but it should not be thought that we begin living life when in Unity. Every day is life. Don't keep on planning. All the days would be lost. Live simpler form of awareness. Don't entertain conflicts. That in itself is the mechanism of success of the future. Life must be lived in its fullness every day, every hour. Complications don't lead us anywhere. Too complicated is not the direction of life in the Age of Enlightenment. Nature is the most efficient organizer. The technique of accomplishment is desire, coming back to the Self and becoming unbounded.
  • Course transcript, January 1979

• We should be very natural and easy about life. We are not to be anxious about activity or meditation. Everything is tested by how quickly our desires get fulfilled - by our achievements. Never should we be anxious. When the time comes, even the chirping of a bird could be the stimulus for enlightenment - even the smoke of a rotten bus. It's the next stage of awakening. There is nothing spectacular about it. Don't think about where we are. Don't think that New York is horrible. One can get to the sap while remaining on the hard point of the thorn. We can get to anywhere. The atmosphere we don't mind. It's a very wrong emphasis that the atmosphere is bad and therefore we get drained. It's the karma of our practise. Once we don't make a fuss about our environment, then nature will take care of us. It will put us in the right environment. Be easy and natural. Don't analyze and Being will take over. When we start to complicate things, Being gets lost. It is not that we are inert, but nature takes over.
  • Course transcript, Vittel, France, 1976 (?)

• Carry the home of all the laws of nature in your awareness and the world will move with your moods. Establish the field of all possibilities in consciousness and guide the destiny of time — govern the world at your will.
  • Inauguration of the World Government of the Age of Enlightenment, Seelisberg, Switzerland, (1976-01-12)

About Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• Whilst I am deeply saddened by his passing, my memories of him will only be joyful ones. He was a great man who worked tirelessly for the people of the world...
  • w:Sir Paul McCartney
• One of the wise men I met in my life was the Maharishi. I always was impressed by his joy and I truly believe he knows where he is going.
  • w:Ringo Starr
• Maharishi was a unique combination of an emperor and an ascetic, a perfect disciple and a Jagadguru, a modern scientist and a deep traditionalist
  • w:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder Art of Living Foundation
  • Column on Rediff News website, India. (2008-02-11) Rediff News

External links

• Transcendental Meditation official website
• Transcripts of lectures and speeches