Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.

Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

The physical is only a small aspect of existence. In this cosmos, not even 1% is physical - the rest is non-physical.

Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore.

A consecrated space experientially reminds you that there is much more to life than you think.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

If it is conditional, it is not love

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

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

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

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

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

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

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

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

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.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip about everyone, or you can become one with everyone.

Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

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

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

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

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

Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.