Quotes from Jaggi Vasudev

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

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.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

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

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

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

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

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

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.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.