Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

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

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

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

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

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

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

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

When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

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

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

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

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

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

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

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

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

Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

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

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

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

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

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.

The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?

The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

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

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

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.