Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

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

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.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate ... This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I believe in karma.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

I believe in destiny and the philosophy of karma.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Life is a menu. Whatever you order is what's delivered to the table.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.