Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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

When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

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

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

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

Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

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

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

The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world.

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

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

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

Devotion means a profusion of life.

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

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

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

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

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

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

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

If your energy body is in full vibrancy, the physical body will naturally fix itself.

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

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.

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.

The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of yoga is a longing. Only when your longing is cranked up to peak intensity, knowing becomes a possibility.

Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

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

How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.

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

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.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

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

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

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

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

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.

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

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

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

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

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

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