Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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.

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

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

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.

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

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

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

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

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

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

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

It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

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

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

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.

Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

"I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

Nothingness is the basis of everything.

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

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

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

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

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

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

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

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.

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