Quotes from Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

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

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 speak passionately. I drive passionately. If I hit a ball, I will do it passionately, too. Because I don't understand how you go through life without involvement. Whatever I am doing in my life, whether big or small, I am 100 per cent involved.

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.

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

Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.

To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.

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.

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.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

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

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

Our life is a combination of a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time.

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

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.

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.

When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

People have to know that when momentum for a national movement has to be built, basic things have to be talked about first.

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.

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.