Great Throughts Treasury

"Do not put anyone to a hard-work direction."

"Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly."

"Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. All action should be to nourish the fine feeling developed in the practice of the TM sidhi program. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non-sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished. The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other. Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life. Nourishment of the feeling level is the basis for growth of the spiritual holistic value. Delicate behavior on the surface should be such as to nourish, uphold and enhance the Transcendental value where feelings merge into a common source. Do not oppose. Opposition is dangerous to immortality."

"Do not base your life on the likings and dis-likings 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."

"Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want."

"Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness."

"Don't fight darkness - bring the light, and darkness will disappear."

"Don?t go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want."

"Enjoy your life and be happy. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. More support of nature comes from being happy. Under all circumstances be happy, even if you have to force it a bit to change some long standing habits. Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but think that way anyway and it will help it come. Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness. Be happy, healthy, and let all that love flow through your heart."

"Everything is an expression of our own intelligence. Through simple, innocent, natural unbounded awareness - fullness of Self, all is accomplished; devotion, positive influence on the entire universe, nourishment of nature - thus gain the support of all the laws of nature, effectiveness, fulfillment of responsibility, togetherness in dynamism, revelation of underlying principles of life, following the routine without rigidity, elimination of individual's weaknesses."

"Focus primarily on America is our present attention because America has proved to the world the most destructive force, as Hitler was some time in Germany. Why Hitler was defeated? Because killing was sin. And people like America because there are so many things in America. But America has become a spot of hatred, a black spot in the family of man. And therefore, all those who are friends of America want America to come back and be the guiding light. And therefore, no one wants America to go into the drains."

"Either take the light or continue to remain in darkness. The choice is yours."

"Fulfillment is structured in achievement. Achievement is structured in action. Action is structured in thinking. Thinking is structured in knowledge. Knowledge is structured in consciousness."

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."

"Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there."

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

"Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they?ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things."

"Good time for the world is coming. Now, a few people in any country will be able to change the destiny of their nation for all good. One percent of the population will be sufficient to design the direction of time for all happiness, progress, and fulfillment everywhere. I see the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. In this scientific age, it is no longer necessary for any nation to continue living with problems. This is the time of the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. I am only giving expression to the phenomenon that is taking place. One percent of the people in any country can herald the dawn of a new age for the whole nation by devoting only fifteen minutes of their time twice a day. With such a little demand for such a great offer it is not conceivable that the world will go any longer in the footsteps of suffering. It is in the hands of a few individuals in every country today to change the direction of time and guide the destiny of their nation for all harmony, happiness, and progress. It is my joy to invite everyone to come in the light of the knowledge and experience that the Science of Creative Intelligence provides and enjoy participating in this global awakening to herald the Age of Enlightenment."

"Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations."

"Human nervous system is the greatest gift of the creator."

"Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness."

"I am closing my performance."

"Hard labor to succeed in the world? Hard labor no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success."

"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!"

"I am digging deeper and deeper into Vedic Science here in India with the Vedic Pandits . . . each day I am busy enjoying different values of Vedic Science."

"I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world."

"I have brought? to the modern man? a simple technique of living in peace and happiness."

"I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn?t touch me, all those remarks."

"If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud."

"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."

"I recommend to people organic agriculture, Vedic organic agriculture."

"I reviewed these two years? experience in India?north, south, east, and west?and said that this Transcendental Meditation is such a simple thing, and it is found to be producing effects in all parts of India. In each province, the living values are completely different. So when in this small area of the world where the cultures are different it has produced these effects, why can?t we spiritually regenerate the whole world through this technique?"

"I think immediate urgent need of the world is the financial capability to have these groups--to train them, to maintain them--and that will be the Thanksgiving act. Thanksgiving act should be: at the altar of the divine, we offer our humble offering of peace, and that will be the best way we can remember our parents or forefathers, all the ancestors to now. Create a world from now on to be a world without suffering, a world of peace. The best offering will be whatever possible contribution to Peace Government. That will be the contribution."

"I will fill the world with love and create Heaven on Earth."

"If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature."

"Ideal relationship is based on giving."

"If one is enjoying, it is more of the Will of God; and if one is established in total possibilities, then it is absolute Will of God."

"If one smokes it is very difficult to quit smoking, but very easy to Gain God consciousness and thereby not feel for smoking if smoking is bad. It is much simpler to attain God consciousness, much more difficult to go the righteous way. First thing is meditation and clear experience of being in meditation which gives us what we are, the cognition of what the God omnipresence is."

"If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness."

"In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research."

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

"If we are not clear in our conscience then we will? be weak."

"If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power."

"If we are weak, we will always put ourselves at the whim of others. We do not base our lives on the opinions of others."

"If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where WE wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter."

"If we remain undecided, nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it."

"In the field of knowledge is all possibility."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

"In Thy fullness, my Lord, filled with thy grace, for the purpose of union with Thee And to satisfy and glorify Thy creation, with thanks to Thee with all our hearts and with all our love for Thee, with all adoration for all Thy blessings we accept thy gift as it has come to us. The food is Thy blessing and in Thy service we accept in all gratitude, my Lord."

"Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it."