Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

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

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

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

What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.

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

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

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.

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

It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.

Devotion means a profusion of life.

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.

If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.

In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

This is a technology where without external input, you create a chemistry of blissfulness within you.

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

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

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.

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

Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

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.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

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

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

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

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.

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

If you look at the world today, lies are mainstream. Truth is a fringe phenomenon.