Top 411 Quotes & Sayings by Jaggi Vasudev

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.

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 Divine descends, you just accommodate.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

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

The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

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.

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

Youth - the most significant aspect of youth is that it's full of energy.

I think family businesses are still crucial for India's economy, but they need to professionalize. For young entrepreneurs, too, family should play a significant part.

Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

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

Integrity is about pursuing bigger goals that are beyond your personal success. If people see you only for yourself, they will not trust you. And, without trust, no growth and success are possible.

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.

When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical largely because of a very strong attachment and involvement with physical process, and physical process has to be cyclical; only then we exist. Without out cyclical movement there'll be no physical existence.

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.

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.

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

Children never seek happiness: they are happy.

'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.

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

India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.

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.

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

Generally, I don't need any music to dance. For me, dance is not because of the music. It is simply because I've found the rhythm of life.

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.

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.

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

I love games, and I'll play any. Games are a way of training ourselves to be heavily involved without being serious.

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

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

Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.

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.

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?