Quotes from Jaggi Vasudev

If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of misery.

If you don't have the necessary inner balance, leadership can demolish you. Today, if you are a CEO by the time you are 35, you must have ulcers. By 45, you must have diabetes. By 55, you must have had a bypass. People say they have had three bypasses, as if it is a qualification.

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

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

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.

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

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

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.

If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.

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.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

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.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.

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.

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.

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.

If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.

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

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.

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.