Top 180 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

153. “Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

154. “If you believe in light, you’ll be in light, you don’t have to face darkness.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

155. “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

156. “All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

157. “We don’t do what we know is wrong.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

158. “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

159. “God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don’t then we are responsible if wars continue.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

160. “Day after day, we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

161. “What makes one luckier is the good that he has done to others. It comes back to him. A man doesn’t become lucky by doing wrong. He becomes lucky because he has done good to others and that good comes back to him. And now he is lucky.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

162. “There is time in life for everything.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

163. “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

164. “To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

165. “Meditation is the best means of elongating life.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

166. “Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

167. “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

168. “Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

169. “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

170. “I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn’t touch me, all those remarks.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

171. “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

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

173. “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

174. “Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use – otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

175. “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.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

176. “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

177. “Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

178. “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.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

179. “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

180. “The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

181. “The United States influences government and life everywhere else.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

183. “If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life...”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

184. “Only we should not be influenced by the winds.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

185. “Managers are the most creative people in the world.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

186. “All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

187. “My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

189. “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

190. “Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

192. “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

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

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

194. “Ayurveda will be known as the most supremely evolved system of perfect health – from both points of view. prevention and cure.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

195. “Shankara’s statements about the nature of the goal were mistaken for the path to realization.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

196. “They think democracy – I used to say damn the democracy, because it’s not a stable government.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

197. “All problems of 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.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi