Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes  

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The founder of Isha Yoga, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, is mostly revered as Sadhguru by the volunteers. This mystic yogi is a great visionary with a master of spirituality. As a perfect blend of sophistication and convenience, with his life, he converted yoga from its hermetic disciplines from an obsolete past to a vitally relevant contemporary form.

Note: This article contains quotes and sayings of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Those are included here considering them as quotations which he expressed. The author does not owe any copyright or responsibility for the wording.



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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

  • “The Mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought, every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body.”  –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Yoga   essentially means   finding the keys to the nature   of the existence.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Devotion is not a concept, not a   certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent   of dissolution.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “If you want to   create a beautiful   world, people in positions  of responsibility and power  should know a certain   sense   of joyfulness and peacefulness.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Mental alertness is not awareness.  Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you   towards liberation.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Are you here to experience life or think about it?” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Inward is not a direction.  Inward is a dimension.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings  hesitate about that.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation –  what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “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.” –  Sadhguru 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.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Every basic activity like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Too many people are hungry not because there is the dearth of food.  It is because there   is a dearth of love and care in human hearts.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “I   do not understand why people want to control their minds.  I want them to liberate their   minds.”
  • “If it is conditional, it is not love” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “The fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “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.” –  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
  • “I’m not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his way-each one is unique.” –  Sadhguru 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 regularly. 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.”
  • “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.”
  • “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.”
  • “It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.”
  • “Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life.   Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.”
  • “Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.”
  • “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.”
  • “Spirituality is not a disability –  it is a phenomenal empowerment of   life.”
  • “Devotion is not drama.  Devotion is a way of living.  And, devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and   the way your heart   beats.”
  • “If you look at creation the way it is; it is explosively beautiful.”
  • “If you think one piece of the creation is better than   another, you have completely lost it.”
  • “Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence   arises.”
  • “Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is an egoistic and   ignorant attitude towards life.”
  • “If you live your life   burning for the highest possible, in that burning itself, there is liberation.”
  • “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.”
  • “The whole creation is so tenderly balanced –  this manifests   the mastery of the Creator.”
  • “Life happens from within. How aware you are of   it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and   your experience of life.”
  • “Memory creates a hallucination of the past; desire creates a   hallucination   of the future.”
  • “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.”
  • “Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world means you have started seeing life with utmost clarity. There are no more illusions about it. You see everything just the way it is.”
  • “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.”
  • “Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.”
  • “Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.”
  • “I barely belong to this world, but still I’m participating.”
  • “When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.”
  • “Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited   dimension   of who you are –  it is   the ultimate   freedom.”
  • “The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst   for knowledge.”
  • “If   you do not choose to become a   steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.”
  • “To create something   and not to be attached to what you   have created is a spiritual process.”
  • “To   simply sit   here and know the tenderness of being   alive   means being drenched in love.”
  • “People have fallen in love with words and lost the world.  It’s time to regain   it.”
  • “When you are no more identified with your   physicality, you become available to Grace.”
  • “You are a piece of creation.   If you go against any other   piece   of creation, you are unknowingly going   against yourself.”
  • “One who explores and knows all aspects of his life is called self-realized.”
  • “This is not just about talking or teaching a   practice –  this is about releasing an explosive   energy of ecstasy.”
  • “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.”
  • “When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.”
  • “Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.”
  • “Once your mind becomes still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.”
  • “Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.”
  • “All thoughts are just junk. Essentially, they are coming from the limited experience of the 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.”
  • “People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.”
  • “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.”
  • “It is not sex   per se –  your identification with the body impedes your spiritual growth.”
  • “If you don’t invest your life in what you care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly –  you will just drag   yourself through life.”
  • “Negative energies can’t   touch   you if you are in a state   of meditativeness.”
  • “Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.”
  • “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.”
  • “Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.”
  • “Devotion   means   a profusion   of life.”
  • “Seeing   everything just the way it 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.”
  • “If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will   blossom, everything will yield.”
  • “Collaboration is far more powerful than the competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.”
  • “It   is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes   you who you are.”
  • “What is the meaning of life? It is too great   a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.”
  • “The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.”
  • “It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children because they are closer to life than anyone else.”
  • “The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body.   If you   nurture the roots, how can you avoid   the flowering?”
  • “Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.”
  • “Until you allow   yourself to blossom into a state   of   boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.”
  • “You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your nature.”
  • “Once you touch a boundless dimension, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there   is here.”
  • “Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there   will be meditation.”
  • “In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking   about   becoming smaller; not just smaller –  non-existent.”
  • “On one level, life is effervescent and active.   On another level, it is still. The inner   stillness   nourishes   the outer   activity.”
  • “Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in   life is life itself.”
  • “You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.”
  • “In the tension, you cannot perceive; in laxity, you cannot perceive. Only if   you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.”
  • “The   moment you ascribe who you   are right   now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.”
  • “Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.”
  • “Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist.  It means   being   in   tune with the intelligence of the Creator.”
  • “Meditation is not an act; it is a quality. Meditation is not   something   that you do – it is something   that you   become.”
  • “Knowing yourself has to always come from within.   The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to   come from within you.”
  • “Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.”
  • “Responsibility means   being   able to respond to whatever situation   you may   face in your life.”
  • “When a child   enters your life   it’s time to learn [not time to teach].”
  • “If you want to   be successful, don’t   seek success –  seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short   of the best that you can   do.”


  • “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.”
  • “Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one –  not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.”
  • “Your energy and your awareness are directly connected.  If your energies are intense, your awareness   naturally grows and sharpens.”
  • “The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.”
  • “There is wealth but no wellbeing.  What are you going to do with this wealth?”
  • “Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken   care of.”
  • “Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.”
  • “Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life but to learn   to let your bones   smile.”
  • “Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension   where   there   is no such thing as stress within   you.”
  • “True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing   just what   is   needed.”
  • “Devotion means   your involvement with life is   no more conditional.”
  • “Ignorance is not bliss.   Ignorance is brutal. The brutality   of ignorance   is such that   it will make you dead while   alive.”
  • “Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identity 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.”
  • “No work is stressful.  It is   your inability   to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes   it stressful.”
  • “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.”
  • “Only when you are devoted to what you do; can you produce something   significant in the world.”
  • “A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.”
  • “Trees   are the source of your   very breath –  cut, and you shall   curtail life   itself.”
  • “If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about   faith, their whole   life will become fake.”
  • “The moment you function in the   world   without being   concerned   about   what is happening   to life around you, you are a Criminal.”
  • “In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.”
  • “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.”
  • “Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless.  In   recognizing our ignorance, we will touch   that which   is boundless.”
  • “Your history is animal. Your future is divinity.   Right   now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.”
  • “Every breath you take; you are getting closer to the grave.  But   every   breath you take, you can also get closer to   your liberation.”
  • “Meditation means   ultimate freedom   within you.”
  • “When you throw   yourself   into your activity, your energy will only grow.”
  • “Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly because, without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is   capable of.”
  • “The highest force   in existence   is   consciousness, and you are that.”
  • “Conclusion means death.  Confusion   means   possibility.”
  • “Most of your desires are not really about yourself.   You   just picked them up from your social surroundings.”
  • “Your   body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the   whole   cosmos –  if only you do not identify   yourself with them.”
  • “Comfort will never   come to one who   does not touch   the stillness   within himself.”
  • “People   try to create an outwardly   perfect life, but the   quality of life is based   on the inward.”
  • “If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The   more rigid   your personality, the more   constipated your whole   being.”
  • “Destiny is the result   of all your actions and the impressions that you have   taken in.”
  • “We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an   inner   transformation in human   beings.”
  • “No two individuals are ever the same.   You cannot equate people. You can only create equal   opportunity.”
  • “There is no need to make spirituality a part of education.   If you make education non-imposing   and non-suppressive, people are naturally   spiritual.”
  • “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.”
  • “Seeking means admitting that you do not know.   Once you have cleared your slate, the truth   can imprint itself upon it.”
  • “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.”
  • “On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where you are right now. You can only start   the   journey from where   you are.”
  • “We   think   there   is   an ecological problem, but the real problem is   irresponsible growth of the human   population.”
  • “Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you   doing   it for everyone’s wellbeing or your benefit?”
  • “If   you dissolve your personality, your   presence becomes very powerful –  this is the essence of   spiritual   sadhana.”
  • “If   we do not work for   individual transformation, talking about   world   peace   is just entertainment.”
  • “There is only one calamity:   ignorance.  And there   is only one   solution: enlightenment.”
  • “Yoga means   union, that in   your experience, everything has become one.”
  • “The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical are 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.”
  • “If you cultivate   your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain   level   of maturity, meditation will blossom.”
  • “Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. Self-realized one sees that the whole   world   is full of one.”
  • “Devotion is when your   involvement with life is so absolute that you do not matter anymore.”
  • “Death is not a disaster.   Too   many births –  that is the real disaster.”
  • “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.”
  • “What you see as cosmos is a living mind –  intelligent space.”
  • “Pleasure is just a   shadow of joy. When there   is no joy in you, you   become a pleasure seeker.”
  • “Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about   you making your emotions so sweet   that your life experience becomes beautiful.”
  • “One   significant thing   that you can do for your children is   to invest some time into   taking them out into   nature.”
  • “Sadhana is towards creating a sense   of   inner fulfillment, where   there   is no need to   lean on anyone anymore.”
  • “When who you are and what you   are is not decided by any external forces, then you are   in dignity.”
  • “Any method to heighten the presence of   that which   is the source of creation within you is   yoga.”
  • “Unless you are oblivious   to your suffering, you have no right   to be oblivious to   other   people’s suffering.”
  • “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.”
  • “A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.”
  • “Making conclusions about   life is a sure way   to deny yourself the possibility of a human being   transforming himself into the Divine.”
  • “Meditation means   to awaken new dimensions within you.”
  • “Spirituality is ultimate greed.  You don’t   just want a piece   of   creation –  you want the source of creation.”
  • “Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination   by mental   projections.”
  • “Devotion is   a place   where   you do not exist; life just flows   through you like a certain sweetness   and beauty.”
  • “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.”
  • “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.”
  • “The physical is only a small aspect of existence.  In this cosmos, not even 1% is physical –   the rest is non-physical.”
  • “If you do a yoga that   does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would   say, don’t   waste   your time on it.”
  • “Faith is not something that you can cultivate.  If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn’t happen to you it doesn’t happen, that’s all. Does it mean to say –  “I   have to just sit and wait and someday it will fall upon me?”  No, it is just that if you understand the   fundamentals of living here, in this existence, you   will see, for anything to happen, you must create the   right   kind of situation.”
  • “The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work –  everything can become yoga.   You can use any process of life to transcend   your limitations.”
  • “If we are not sensitive about   this, in our ideas   of wealth creation we may destroy the planet –  which   we are already doing   in many ways.”
  • “Intelligence essentially means   that   your intellect   is sharp   enough to see life the way   it is.”
  • “Spirituality is not about   becoming special   –  it is about   becoming one with everything.”
  • “You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not   exploring   such a phenomenal possibility is a   crime.”
  • “Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.”
  • “If you want the Divine to become alive   within you, first   of all, you as a human being have to become alive.”
  • “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.”
  • “There is no such thing as having attained enough.   Life is an endless possibility.”
  • “A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.”
  • “Water has memory. Depending   on how you   treat   it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you   generate, accordingly, it behaves in your body.”
  • “Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body.  Yoga is towards   reducing this attachment.”
  • “Whatever   your goal in life, unless you develop a great   urgency, what could   be near will be far away.”
  • “Devotion is a tool to dissolve   yourself into nothingness and become the very hand   of   the Divine.”
  • “For   integrity   to flourish in   society, we have to nurture it –  within ourselves, in our children, in our education   systems.”
  • “Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it   right, it can also be your liberation.”
  • “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.”
  • “When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space   is just a creation of the mind.”
  • “Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about   your sense   of   inadequacy.”
  • “In yoga, you never   chase   an   experience –  you only prepare for it.”
  • “This is a   technology where   without external input, you create   a chemistry   of blissfulness within you.”
  • “The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering.  Idiots are always dead sure about   every   damn thing   they are doing   in their   life.”
  • “As   long as you are a part of the physical process of existence, there   is nothing that does not change.”
  • “We neither need a political revolution nor a   religious revolution. What we need is an inner   transformation in human   beings.”


  • “There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness   of love, nor the   Divine.”
  • “If you knew the immensity   of what it means   to be human, you would   not talk about God or   Heaven.”
  • “If you can break   the illusion that you are   separate and begin   to experience the oneness of existence, that is yoga.”
  • “Spiritual process is not   about   chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about   enhancing   your perception.”
  • “Life is not outside of you. You are   life.”
  • “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.”
  • “Believing that what you do not know cannot exist   is the   crown   of ignorance.”
  • “Confidence without clarity is   always a disaster.”
  • “One who is constantly resting   within himself is capable of endless activity.”
  • “Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist.   The idea of individuality   is an illusion.”
  • “Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born.   With this freedom, a new perception arises.”
  • “Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life   itself.”
  • “The   most beautiful   moments in life are   moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you   are seeking it.”
  • “For   the sort of potential   that a   human   being   carries, it is a very brief   life.”
  • “If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death.   The only truly   secure place is your grave.”
  • “I don’t have opinions.   Only if it is necessary for a   particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are   fetters for your intelligence.”
  • “If you know how to   keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening   around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be   denied to you.”
  • “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.”
  • “Whether it is your work, your love, or   your life –  unless you throw   your entire self into it, you will never   know what it is.”
  • “Higher dimensions of Awareness mean higher dimensions of energy.”
  • “If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your agenda is taking you   further and further away from that.”
  • “As a leader, you   build   trust   when you give yourself 100% so that   people understand with your every   action, you stand   for   them.”
  • “A   spiritual process is not a divorce from life.   It is an irrevocable love affair with life.”
  • “For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.”
  • “If   you become so   intensely   curious that without knowing you cannot   live, that is called seeking.”
  • “Yoga is not just about living better. It is about   exploring   the   very source of life.”
  • “God” is just a name to refer   to something   that is beyond all limitations.”
  • “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.”
  • “What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different.  The   Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond   logic.”
  • “Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind.   You must be able to end   it somewhere.”
  • “Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist   together.”
  • “If you pay   sufficient attention, everything in life is   magnificent, everything is a doorway   to the   Divine.”
  • “Meditation means   to know life beyond the sphere of the   physical; to know and experience life not just at the   surface but at the source.”
  • “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.”
  • “Nothingness is the   basis   of everything.”
  • “Incredible things can be   done simply if we are committed   to making them happen.”
  • “The   most enduring sort of power   is realizing   the power   within.”
  • “Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself.   It means   shifting yourself to a completely new dimension   of experience   and perception.”
  • “Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware   of that, you could   create it whichever   way you want.”
  • “If you   walk through life with ease and without any sense   of   entanglement, that is maturity.”
  • “When one is overfed   and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.”
  • “If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy.  But a Guru is a friend who constantly   tramples your ego.”
  • “Once you realize that the way you   exist   right   now is not enough, that there   is something   more, your spiritual   process has already   begun.”
  • “When   every   moment, you experience   yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece   of creation, then you are realized.”
  • “Spirituality is   a boundless   ability to respond and experience.”
  • “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.”
  • “The   first   step towards knowledge is to see that you do not know.”
  • “All beliefs will crash somewhere.  Only reality will sustain   itself.”
  • “Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not   enhancing   our perception.”
  • “Consciousness is not a   bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness   is a dimension   that is beyond our   physicality.”
  • “Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or   God. Talking about   something   that is not yet a   reality for you amounts to falsehood.”
  • “Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you   allow   life to happen within   you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch   the spirit.”
  • “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 means   to go   beyond the limitations of body and mind.”
  • “If you try   to live that which   is past, that which   IS will   bypass you.”
  • “O’   the blue-bodied cowherd –  ever playful in love and war. Don’t   you fail to see the   immensity   of his wisdom and light?”
  • “The only reason   why you are unhappy is that you are trying to be   happy.”
  • “Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can   be deeply involved but not entangled.”
  • “A consecrated   space   experientially reminds you that there   is   much more to life than   you think.”
  • “Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of karma.  Depriving   yourself of any experience is the big karma.”
  • “Life is fluid, ever-evolving.   The more dynamic you are, the   more happens in your life, all the time.”
  • “If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma.  Living means   that you experience anything that comes   fully   and intensely.”
  • “With yoga, not only your body   should become flexible –  your mind and emotions, and   above   all your consciousness   should become   flexible.”
  • “The Divine is constantly waiting at   your doorstep to move in if only you allow the   necessary   space.”
  • “Yoga is a way to produce a   chemistry of blissfulness.   Once you are blissful by your nature, you can deal with outside situations   effortlessly.”
  • “Only in unawareness, you are mortal. In   awareness   you are immortal.”
  • “All along, you’ve been shaping your destiny unconsciously.   But you can also work on it consciously. If you   make the effort to access your core and realize that everything is your responsibility and shift   your   focus   inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.”
  • “Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create   your destiny.”
  • “The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries   goes back to the beginning   of existence.”
  • “A guru is   not a crutch, he is a bridge.”
  • “Without raising   human   consciousness, whatever we do in the world   will only lead   to more and more suffering.”
  • “Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are   working against yourself.”
  • “We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large   portion of the human   population is hungry.”
  • “Most   of the time you are thinking about life, not living   life.”
  • “If you shift   from compulsiveness to   consciousness, being   joyful will not be an effort.”
  • “The spiritual   process has always been referred to as a   journey –  constant change.”
  • “Today, it is more   important   than ever to raise   human   consciousness, so that technology becomes a means   of   empowerment, not destruction.”
  • “Looking   at everything   through your phone   is only numbing your perception –   it does not enhance your experience of life in   any way.”
  • “Devotion is about you. Maybe   you use   another object as inspiration, but you change your   quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this   planet.”
  • “If your energy body is in full vibrancy, the   physical body will naturally   fix itself.”
  • “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.”
  • “A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless   with himself but kind to everybody   else.”
  • “Whatever happens –  ultimately, life corrects itself.”
  • “The   very life within you is longing to be joyful because   joyfulness is the nature of   the source of   creation.”
  • “The hand of the Creator is actively   involved in every   atom, every   plant, every creature, and yourself, in every   cell in your body.”
  • “Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take   responsibility for your genetics.”
  • “When you do   something   just because it is needed, you involve   yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.”
  • “Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless.  The limitation is only of the body and   mind.”
  • “What we refer   to as yoga is just a   technology to make your energies function by choice, not   by compulsion.”
  • “If you think you are big, you will become small.  If you are willing to become an   absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and   Creator.”
  • “Gossip is a kind of misalignment with people around you. You can either gossip   about   everyone, or you can become one with everyone.”
  • “If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India   will be a   miracle.”
  • “Transformation means   nothing of the old   should remain; something new should happen.”
  • “The   science and technology of how this life functions   and what we can do with it, is what we   refer   to as yoga.”
  • “Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.”
  • “If you want to know higher   dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you.”
  • “If you want to find out the purpose of life, you   need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.”
  • “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 makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human beings carry will influence everything around them.”
  • “When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.”
  • “Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility.  In   stupid conclusion, there   is no possibility.”
  • “To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.”


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