Shri Vethathiri Maharishi

Shri Vethathiri Maharishi is the founder of World Community Service Center, an organisation founded in 1958 with the aim of bring peace in the society through individual harmony. He is a 94 year old yogi and one of the greatest thinkers of the century. His teachings and methods are at once simple, effective, practical and scientific, based on ancient wisdom and yet perfectly suiting the modern way of living.

Biography

Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, born in 1911 in Guduvancheri a village located 30 km south of Chennai, South India. From his youth he was driven by the desire for knowledge and in particular strove to find answers to three questions: "What is God?" "What is life?" and "Why is there poverty in the world?". The search to find these answers as well as the necessity to further his lot in life lead him into various fields of endeavor, including becoming a qualified practitioner for two systems of Indian indigenous medicine, namely Ayurveda and Siddha, and a certified practitioner of Homeopathy as well. Enlightened through several years of intense meditation and introspection, he has spontaneously poured out over 2000 poems dealing with origin and functions of the cosmos as well as on all aspects of human life. He remains dedicated to serving his fellow beings by conveying his understanding of the One Supreme Power and its evolution through his speeches and writings.

Swamiji as of date, he has authored 70 books in Tamil and English. Even at his age of ninety four, he continues to serve humanity through his writings and discourses. In his book entitled World Peace, written in 1957, he has reviewed the conditions of humanity, identified the problems affecting the humankind and delineated a comprehensive plan for bringing about total transformation in society so as to achieve peace and prosperity for all. In 1958 Vethathiri Maharishi founded the World Community Service Center, a not-for-profit (registered) organisation with a view of achieving World Peace through individual harmony.

From 1972 to 1993 he travelled abroad annually delivering speech and teaching extensively in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and U.S.A. Several universities in India have made Maharishi's philosophy a part of their regular course. By unification of science and philosophy, Maharishi has made significant contributions to the contemporary philosophy, basic sciences and literature and thereby evolving a unified and holistic view of Nature. Based on Vethathiri Maharishi's philosophy, several scholars in the fields of literature, science and psychology are working for their Doctorate degrees.

His quotes

• Habit is Destiny.
• Man, society and nature all are interlinked with one another. Man cannot be separated from this.
• God + Imprints = Man; Man - Imprints = God.
• Every man is due to the society because all are enjoying the benefits and prosperities of the society.
• A proper spiritual approach for changing the behaviour of man and establishing World Peace is Karma Yoga.
• Whatever an action may be, there is a result. And for every result there is an action or cause. This is the cause and effect system which never fails.
• To live in harmony, do not command, do not comment, do not demand.
• Constant awareness, introspection and planned action these three would develop your intellect. Success then is certain in life.
• An integrated practice of reorganising and restructuring the body and the mind for a newly planned life is Kundalini Yoga.
• Using violence against violence carefully in inevitable circumstance is non-violence.
• No one can take away from you what Providence has allotted for you.
• The husband-wife relationship is divine; no other can equal it in its depth and intensity, because only in this relationship the union of souls occur.
• Vegetarianism is the only way of life based on the observance of non-violence. Non-violence is a method of living without hurting, torturing or killing any living being for one's own enjoyment.
• Do not comment on the activities of others, even if it be your life-partner or children. Guiding them is one thing, but criticizing them would have a negative effect.
• When you do meditation, you get God consciousness and undisturbed peace in you. That will be added as a plus point to your material benefits also.
• Giving up and giving up whatever is not wanted whether it is men, material, action or enjoyment is the method of purification and enlightenment.
• Man has to understand the value of himself, the purpose of birth and has to develop his consciousness to fulfil the purpose.
• Consciousness is the radical universal principle.
• Gnana Yoga (SKY) is the process of throwing light on the souls to guide them in reaching their goal quickly without unnecessary delay. This is possible by attaining the full understanding of Truth, Universe, Life and Knowledge.
• The benefits of Nature are all over the Universe but the secrets of Nature are only within your own Mind. Go in and in to get more and more.
• Desires of experiencing God through senses will never be successful. By developing your Consciousness you have to become God yourself.
• The art of tolerating the needs, regulating the habits and making better use of the environments for the harmony of self and others is Morality.
• When man realize himself, he realizes the value of everybody. So to respect the needs and ambitions of others and to restrict and moralize one's own activities become possible.
• There is no problem in the Nature, only the problem is in the Mind.
• The principal goals of introspection are examining yourself and finding out "What You are?"
• The one and only valid test for a person's wisdom is the peace and harmony prevailing in his family.
• The three main ways in which man wastes his energy are Greed, Anger and Worry.
• Man's needs and achievements must be compatible to and in accordance with the purpose of his birth.
• To speak or act in a manner which will wound the feelings of one's life-partner is really a curse that will leave an indelible on the human mind.
• Revelation of the realities of Nature or enlightenment of Consciousness is not by any effort. Effort means conditioning.
• Awareness is a higher stage of knowledge in its evolutionary progress towards wisdom.
• We are not separate in the World; We are linked by the universal force which is called Universal Consciousness.

External Links

Official web site of World Community Service Centre