Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev - Quotes (181) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Jaggi Vasudev (born 3 September 1957), often referred to as Sadhguru, is an Indian yogi, mystic, poet and New York Times bestselling author. He founded the Isha Foundation, a not for profit organization which offers yoga programs around the world, including India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia, Uganda, China, Nepal, and Australia. The foundation is also involved in various social and community development activities, which have resulted in it being granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. On 25 January 2017, the Government of India announced that he was being conferred the Padma Vibhushan award for his contribution towards spirituality.
Sadhguru's vision and understanding of modern social and economic issues have led to interviews with BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNNfn, and Newsweek International. His insights are regularly featured in India's leading national newspapers. A well-known public figure, he regularly draws crowds of more than 300,000 people for his public talks and "sathsangs" (group meditation). Traversing seamlessly from the ancient to the ultramodern, Sadhguru bridges the gap between the known and the unknown, enabling all those who encounter him to explore and experience the deepest dimensions of life. See website for more info - http://isha.sadhguru.org/
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Whatever is your highest, you just contemplate upon that. Your inner and outer purity will happen naturally.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If your energy body is in full vibrancy, the physical body will naturally fix itself.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Life is not outside of you. You are life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than Sadhguru anyone else.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spirituality is not about becoming special - it is about becoming one with everything.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
"I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you look at creation the way it is, it is explosively beautiful.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Negative energies can't touch you if you are in a state of meditativeness.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.
― Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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