Quotes from Jaggi Vasudev

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

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.

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

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.

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

A beard doesn't grow only on gurus; it grows on all men.

If your idea of a guru is from a calendar, who has candy-floss beard and a constipated look on the face, then definitely I am not that.

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

Devotion means a profusion of life.

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

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.

Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.

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.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.