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Jaggi Vasudev

406 quotes in 1073 categories

Jaggi Vasudev describes meditation as a place where stress disappears. He says that when people work joyfully together, big goals like cleaning a country move faster. He also reminds us that true spirituality looks inward, not outward and that feeling of purpose fuels the effort.

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Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev, known as Sadhguru, is an Indian guru who founded the Isha Foundation in Coimbatore, India, and has taught yoga since 1982.

Quick Facts About Jaggi Vasudev

Notable works: Midnights with the mystic

About Jaggi Vasudev

The Isha Foundation, started in 1992, runs an ashram and yoga centre that offer educational and spiritual programs. Sadhguru authored the New York Times bestsellers Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy and Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny. He also speaks regularly at international forums.

Quotes by Jaggi Vasudev

A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

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

Being

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

Flowering

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Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

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

Experience

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Yoga is not Indian; it does not belong to India.

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Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.

Ability

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Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.

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In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

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Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but…

Fitness

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Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Attachment

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

Existence

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If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

Care

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No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

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

Affluence

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It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this…

Attention

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Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in…

People

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Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

Change

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Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is…

Beautiful

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I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see…

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

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Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of…

Affluence

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In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the…

Clarity

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When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. 'Live' means in its uncooked condition, because a live…

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Faith is not something that you can cultivate. If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn't happen to you it…

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When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical…

Attachment

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If you don't have the necessary inner balance, leadership can demolish you. Today, if you are a CEO by the time you…

Balance

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“You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible.…

Bible

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We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything?…

Affluence

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Yoga is not a belief system - it is not a new religion, philosophy or a teaching but a technology. I call…

Belief

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Peace is a very poor aspiration. Unfortunately, even so-call spiritual leaders are going about saying that the ultimate goal of life is…

Dreams

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How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look…

Community

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The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

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If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

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Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

Clarity

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Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Body

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No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.

Body

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Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

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

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

Action

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Jaggi Vasudev by topic

Life (201) Spiritual (186) Meditation (155) Love (106) Love & life (100) Yoga (67) Perception (44) Religion (41) Clarity (40) Truth (34) Truth of life (30) Spiritual life (30) People (29) Devotion (29) Morality (28) Divinity (28) Humanity (25)