276 Quotes by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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.

One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

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.

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.

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

Behaviour arises from the level of one’s consciousness.

If we think of defeat, that’s what we will get. If we are undecided then nothing will happen for us. We must just pick something great to do, and then do it. Never think of failure at all, for as we think now, that’s what we will get.

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

Decide what you want and don’t think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.