Some of the more surface value reasons to start a Meditation practice are:

Unhappiness in your life.

Stress.

A desire for relaxation or peacefulness.

Wanting to live more in the moment.

And there are other deeper value reasons to begin a Meditation practice:

An interest in the evolution of your consciousness.

A curiosity about how Creation emerges, evolves and dissolves.

Wanting to know who you are and what the purpose of life is.

A desire to understand things you want to understand and to change things you want to change.

Maharishi teaches that a Meditation practice that transcends the relative field leaves your Self to experience ItSelf by ItSelf.

Your Self, Pure Consciousness, is the source of the entire relative field.

The Laws of Nature vibrate and emerge from Pure Consciousness.

These laws create the relative field, our Universe, and evolve it.

The activity of the relative field covers its source, Pure Consciousness, your Self.

Perhaps you are interested in Enlightenment, in being established in your Self:

The holding of two states of Consciousness at the same time, Consciousness of your Self and Consciousness of the relative field.

You are free from the bondage of Karma.

The state of Enlightenment brings a desire to know the Lord in God Consciousness, to unite with the Lord.

This union unifies your Self with the relative field.

There is one Awareness alone, the Awareness of God.