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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

Courage Age You

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

Art You Wit

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

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Trees Tree Tory

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

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Men Us T

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

Jaggi Vasudev

Leadership Things Thing

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

Success Pet Intelligence

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

Jaggi Vasudev

Age Vision Villages

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.

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Success Want Us

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

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War Up T

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.

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Truth Strength Men

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

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Whether Waste Use

Discrimination will impair democracy.

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Will T Rim

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.

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You Vent T

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

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Men Life T

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

Time Nature Art

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.

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Life Experience Art

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

Peace Men Life

Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.

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Life Art Worm

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

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Men Thing Thin

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

Children never seek happiness: they are happy.

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

Jaggi Vasudev

Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.

Jaggi Vasudev

'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.

Jaggi Vasudev

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev