Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.

Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has its own intelligence. The brain is sitting in your head, but mind is all over the place.

All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.

What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator.

You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you,

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

If it is conditional, it is not love

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing.

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

I learned to create a little more space between my thoughts and actions - actually between my feelings and reactions. This is extremely important; without it, life can be a real roller coaster ride.

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

The hen that you are, how will you know what deceptive ways Grace will descend. It is Grace that brought you here and it is Grace that will deliver: I prefer the hen that looks up to the sky than an eagle that flies but always looking down. How high is not the question, but how intense is your longing for the sky. May you always be in Grace.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our heart into what we are doing. It doesn't matter what we are doing. Whether we are sweeping the floor, or managing the country, or whatever we are doing. If we are putting our heart into what we are doing, it is beautiful to be doing that activity. Living in an atmosphere where people are passionate about what they are doing itself is highly enriching.

You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.

Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

What people are suffering is their freedom. That's why it is so tragic. If

Devotion means a profusion of life.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

Children only come through you, you don't create them. It is a privilege that they have happened through you. Enjoy the privilege; don't think of it as an authority. Just enjoy the privilege that another life chose to come through you into this world.

Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.

Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind.

What does it mean to become a Buddha? "Bu" means "Buddhi," the intellect. One who is above his intellect is a Buddha.

Learning is a natural human trait. When you learn something that you did not know, it should make you joyful. But if learning is making children miserable, then we have not understood how to impart learning.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

There is so much adventure that only a youth can experience. Youth is not the time to languish in pleasure - youth is the time for exploration and adventure

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you. If somebody else decides what should happen around you, that itself you call as slavery. But if someone decides what should happen within you, is it not a more horrible way of being a slave? But please see, the whole world is in this slavery. The only consolation is everybody is like this.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga.

Krishna says in the Gita, The worst crime in the world is indecision.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

Whatever happiness and peace that one knows in one's life is generally so fragile that it is always subservient to the external situation. So most of your lives go in trying to manage a perfect external situation which is just impossible to do. No human being is ever capable of creating a perfect external situation because the outside situation will never be hundred percent in your control, no matter how powerful a human being you are. So yoga focuses on the inner situation. If you can create a perfect inward situation, no matter what the external situation, you can be in perfect bliss and peace.

Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.

Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

The biggest problem is the moment you say "spirituality," somebody starts talking about God, someone else about mukti, someone else about nirvana and someone else about the Ultimate. They are all already up there. You cannot do anything with people who are already up there. If somebody is down here, you can do something with them. You can only take a step if your feet are on the ground, isn't it? The moment you talk about God, you are not here anymore; you know it all. You can only start a journey from where you are. You cannot start a journey from where you are not. If you are willing to come down to where you are, then we can see what the next step is. If you are already on the third step to heaven, what can I do with you?

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.