Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.
Jaggi Vasudev
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.
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.
Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.
A beard doesn't grow only on gurus; it grows on all men.
Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.
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.
My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the 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.
Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.
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.
There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.
Discrimination will impair democracy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.
Vijji was not an accomplished yogi. She did what she did with just the sheer intensity of her emotions.
I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.
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.
The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body.
I'm comfortable with anything that fits me well. Bad tailoring is what I am uncomfortable with.
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.
To make any endeavor truly successful, integrity, inspiration, and insight are integral.
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.
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.
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.
When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.
Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.
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.
Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.
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.
Corruption has seeped into every section of life.
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.
'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 the Divine descends, you just accommodate.
India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.
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.
Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.
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 have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.
What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.
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.
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.
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.
In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment, as there is so much to be done in India.
