Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

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

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

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

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

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

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

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.

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

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

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.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow.

"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.

Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

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

With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

If you think one piece of creation is better than another, you have completely lost it.

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

If you look at creation the way it is, it is explosively beautiful.

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

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.

If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.

If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.

Negative energies can't touch you if you are in a state of meditativeness.

One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

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

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?