Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.

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

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.

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

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

Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.

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.

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.

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.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

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

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip about everyone, or you can become one with everyone.

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

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

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.

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

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.

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

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

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

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

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

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

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

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

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

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

The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

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

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

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