Jaggi Vasudev Quotes & Sayings

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal. — Jaggi Vasudev

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity. — Jaggi Vasudev

Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind. — Jaggi Vasudev

Creator is just pure intelligence. Intelligence beyond logic is Creator, or what you are referring to as God. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself. — Jaggi Vasudev

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward. — Jaggi Vasudev

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place. — Jaggi Vasudev

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools. — Jaggi Vasudev

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

Whatever happiness and peace that one knows in one's life is generally so fragile that it is always subservient to the external situation. So most of your lives go in trying to manage a perfect external situation which is just impossible to do. No human being is ever capable of creating a perfect external situation because the outside situation will never be hundred percent in your control, no matter how powerful a human being you are. So yoga focuses on the inner situation. If you can create a perfect inward situation, no matter what the external situation, you can be in perfect bliss and peace. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

All thoughts are just junk. Essentially, they are coming from the limited experience of past. These thoughts are useful for your survival process. You've picked up some amount of information; you want to survive in the world; this information is useful. If you're looking at life itself, these thoughts are meaningless. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do. — Jaggi Vasudev

One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

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

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

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

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being. — Jaggi Vasudev

Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role. — Jaggi Vasudev

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable. — Jaggi Vasudev

The biggest problem is the moment you say "spirituality," somebody starts talking about God, someone else about mukti, someone else about nirvana and someone else about the Ultimate. They are all already up there. You cannot do anything with people who are already up there. If somebody is down here, you can do something with them. You can only take a step if your feet are on the ground, isn't it? The moment you talk about God, you are not here anymore; you know it all. You can only start a journey from where you are. You cannot start a journey from where you are not. If you are willing to come down to where you are, then we can see what the next step is. If you are already on the third step to heaven, what can I do with you? — Jaggi Vasudev

When you have that, you dream of this and when you have this, you dream of that. Maybe you call it romantic, but it's just plain stupidity. It destroys life. — Jaggi Vasudev

In terms of experience, we want to make this (referring to the self) very pleasant. We want this to be blissful, ecstatic. But, as I said before, even being ecstatic is not goal by itself. If you are blissful by your own nature, then the important thing is that you are no more the issue. There are other issues in this existence; we can look at those. But if you are an issue, what other issue will you take in your hands? You will not touch anything. When I am enough trouble myself, why do I want to take on this one or that one? When I am no more an issue, now I am willing to dig into the whole existence and see what it is all about. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

The man who does only as much as is needed will only get that much. — Jaggi Vasudev

Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough. — Jaggi Vasudev

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

The moment it is in touch with the earth, the body recognizes it. That is why spiritual people in India walked barefoot and always sat upon the ground in a posture that allows for maximum area of contact. In this way, the body is experientially reminded that it is just a part of this earth. Never should the body forget what it is. If it forgets, it will start making fanciful demands; if you constantly remind it, then it knows its place. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth. — Jaggi Vasudev

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

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

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

Death is a fiction created by people who live their lives in total unawareness. There is only life, life and life alone, moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

If it is conditional, it is not love — Jaggi Vasudev

Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all. — Jaggi Vasudev

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit. — Jaggi Vasudev

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach]. — Jaggi Vasudev

What does it mean to become a Buddha? "Bu" means "Buddhi," the intellect. One who is above his intellect is a Buddha. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

Life is not outside of you. You are life. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

How can you become old in spirit? Only by carrying the past, isn't it? If you carry sixty years of burden with you, you're sixty years old. If you don't carry anything, you're like a newborn. The physical body may develop limitations, but the way you are has no limitations. It simply has no limitations. You are this many years old or that many years old simply because you carry that many years of garbage with you. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you. — Jaggi Vasudev

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. — Jaggi Vasudev

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness. — Jaggi Vasudev

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within. — Jaggi Vasudev

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility. — Jaggi Vasudev

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life. — Jaggi Vasudev

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. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

When conquest became the mode, people burnt the feminine out of the planet. We made it like this that the masculine is the only way to be successful, and we have compelled even women to be very masculine today in their attitude, approach and emotion. We have made everybody believe that conquest is the only way to success. But to conquer is not the way; to embrace is the way. Trying to conquer the planet has led to all the disasters. If the feminine was the more dominant factor, or at least if the two were evenly balanced, I don't think you would have any ecological disasters, because the feminine and earth worship always went together. Those cultures which looked upon the earth as the mother, they never caused too much damage to the environment around them. — Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have. — Jaggi Vasudev

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity. — Jaggi Vasudev

Someone is not stressful because of what he is doing; someone is stressful because he doesn't know how to manage his own inner system. It is not the nature of the job which makes one stressful. You ask the top executive, he is stressful; you ask the office hand, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own inner system, you will be stressful whether you do something or you don't do anything. — Jaggi Vasudev

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