Jaggi Quotes

#1. I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

Donna Karan

#2. Success is the consequence of courage, commitment, and competence. You cannot seek a consequence - it has to be created. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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#3. If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

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#4. Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

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#5. If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things

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

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#7. What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

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#8. Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

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#9. Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.

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#10. If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

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#11. You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they don't want to be left out of the scene around them.

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#12. Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

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#13. Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

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#14. There is a Force within That gives you life Seek that. - Rumi

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#15. Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.

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#16. Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

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#17. Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

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#18. Death is a fiction created by people who live their lives in total unawareness. There is only life, life and life alone, moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another.

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#19. If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

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#20. Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

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#21. How the human system is happening, in the same way the universe has happened. In the same way that the micro is happening, that is how the macro has happened. If you look at the micro and perceive it, you will also know existence.

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

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#23. It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

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#24. Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy.

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#25. Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

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#26. Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

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#27. People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

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#28. Nothing has ever been out of place in this existence. Things have been out of place in human societies.

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#29. Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

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#30. If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

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#31. Only if you know to what extent your logic should go and where it should not go, your life will be beautiful.

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#32. Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

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#33. Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

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#34. Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

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

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#36. Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.

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#37. Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

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#38. If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.

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#39. Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

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#40. There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth?

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#41. In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.

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#42. Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

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#43. Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

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

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#45. We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

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#46. Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

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#47. If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

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#48. One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

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

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#50. The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

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#51. Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

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#52. When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

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#53. Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

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#54. Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore.

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#55. It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.

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#56. People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

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#57. Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

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#58. When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

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#59. Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

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#60. Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

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#61. Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

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#62. The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

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#63. Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

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#64. If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

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#65. Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

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#66. Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

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#67. A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

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#68. As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

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#69. Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

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#70. What does it mean to become a Buddha? "Bu" means "Buddhi," the intellect. One who is above his intellect is a Buddha.

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#71. What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

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#72. They have been promising us for a long time - in every culture - that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.

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

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#74. Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

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#75. Love is your quality. Love is not what you do. Love is what you are. - Sadhguru

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#76. Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.

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#77. Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

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#78. Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

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#79. Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

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#80. The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator.

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#81. True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

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#82. Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

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#83. 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.

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#84. It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

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#85. If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

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#86. Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

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#87. There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

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#88. 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.

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#89. 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.

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#90. If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

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#91. All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.

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#92. For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

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#93. The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

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#94. Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

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#95. It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

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#96. Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

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#97. You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.

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#98. O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

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#99. If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

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#100. Your body is on loan from the planet. All the countless numbers of people who have lived on this planet before you and me have all become topsoil, and so will you. This planet will collect back atom by atom what it has loaned to you.

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