Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Founder of Transcendental Meditation movement.

An influential Indian spiritual leader who gained global prominence in the 1960s and 1970s by introducing a simplified meditation technique designed to reduce stress and promote inner peace. He established a worldwide organization that brought Eastern spiritual practices to Western audiences, attracting numerous celebrities and establishing meditation centers across continents. His approach emphasized personal transformation through daily meditation, scientific research into consciousness, and the potential for individual and collective peace through spiritual practice.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes about Body

Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love. It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply. It is not the movements of our body or the words within our minds that transmit love. We love from heart to heart.
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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.
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When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.
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Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.
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Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.
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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.
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