Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi महर्षि महेश योगी

Leading Indian expert on Vedic Wisdom, born 12. January, ca. 1917, in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

"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."
- (12 January, 1976, Inauguration of the World Government of the Age of Enlightenment, Seelisberg, Switzerland)

"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."
- (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."
- (not exact, Vittel, France, 1976)

"OM lead me to light, OM dawn in my sight, OM take me to Thine, OM make me to shine."
- (poem, 1935 ?, unconfirmed, copied from private notes)

"The lock is only for those who accept it."
- (unknown source - from privat notes of a lecture)

Q:"Why did you leave the silence of the Himalayas?"
M: "I have not left the silence of the Himalayas. I came out to expand the silence of the Himalayas into the market place of the modern world. The Himalayas is there eternally present at the core of everyone's personality. Once one is in tune with it, one is ever in tune with the silence of the Himalayas. One never misses it. The silence of the Himalayas never leaves one nor can it afford to leave. Such is the situation."
- unknown source and date

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