Top 55 Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Youth – the most significant aspect of youth is that it’s full of energy.

For me, health, education, and spirituality should never be commercialised.

Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.

If you ask across the section of farmers in the country how many of them want their children to go into farming, believe me, it is less than 10 per cent. Nobody wants their children to go into farming.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn’t see anybody as anything other than that.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down – it’s about looking inward.

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.

The purpose of life is to explore one’s own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

When we are young, revolution is the most romantic thing.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

‘Belief’ means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.

In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.

Peace is a very poor aspiration. Unfortunately, even so-call spiritual leaders are going about saying that the ultimate goal of life is to find peace. Peace is a fundamental requirement. Why are you making it as the last thing in your life? It must be the first thing that happens to you.

No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.

There are certain rivers which can be linked, which will be beneficial especially for flood mitigation… It will be very useful process, but all rivers in India are not fit to be linked.

There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.

People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.

In terms of the quality of food entering you, vegetarian food is definitely far better for the system than non vegetarian.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

To make any endeavor truly successful, integrity, inspiration, and insight are integral.

It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that they are creating.

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.

It’s very important when you are young you don’t take sides; you look at everything fresh and see, what is the best thing we can do? For ourselves, for the society in which we live, the country in which we live, the world in which we live, what’s the best thing we can do?

I’m comfortable with anything that fits me well. Bad tailoring is what I am uncomfortable with.

Success means at least you are finding full potential to who you are in terms of your intelligence, your capability and competence: you are finding full expression to who you are. This is important.

We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don’t have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.

Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

If you don’t have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.

Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples – or other places of worship – but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.

In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment, as there is so much to be done in India.

Vijji was not an accomplished yogi. She did what she did with just the sheer intensity of her emotions.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don’t win anything on your reputation.

Yoga is not a practice – the word ‘yoga’ means union. It does not mean standing on your head, twisting your body, or holding your breath. Yoga means to know the union of life. When you experience everything as a part of yourself, you are in yoga.

A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map.

Yoga is not Indian; it does not belong to India.

For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.

Children never seek happiness: they are happy.

There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.

The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.