Jaggi Vasudev quotes

Jaggi Vasudev, known as Sadhguru, is an Indian yogi, mystic, and spiritual leader. As the founder of the Isha Foundation, his teachings focus on yoga, meditation, and wellbeing. He has inspired millions worldwide through his philosophies and humanitarian initiatives. Here are 106 of his quotes:

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. (Jaggi Vasudev)
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. View quote
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Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future. View quote
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True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed. View quote
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Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Your joy keeps crashing down repeatedly. It doesn't matter how many times you think 'This is it', it keeps falling down simply because you don't understand the mechanics of it. View quote
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If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it? View quote
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The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it. View quote
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The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind. View quote
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How deeply you touch another life is how rich your life is. -Sadhguru. (Jaggi Vasudev)
Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. View quote
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The word ‘yoga' literally means ‘union'. When you experience everything as one in your consciousness, then you are in yoga. -Sadhguru. View quote
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If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery and bondage; unless you change that, you will never know joy as a way of being. View quote
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In the case of Isha, the process will last in a very active way for six hundred to seven hundred years. After that, it will continue in a lowered way. But the energy part of it is indestructible. Though, right now, the teaching looks like the major part, it is actually just a small part in my life. The real work that I do is not in what I am saying or doing around the world. The real work is in the "eggs” that I lay which can't be destroyed, which will be there forever. View quote
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How aware you are is how alive you are. View quote
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This life for me is an endeavor to help people manifest their divinity. View quote
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If I choose among you, you will feel hurt. But nature has its own way of choosing. Those who are not entitled to something, drop out by themselves. View quote
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Awareness is aliveness. View quote
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As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, the many religions of the world are an expression of one divine source. View quote
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Whatever happiness and peace that one knows in one's life is generally so fragile that it is always subservient to the external situation. So most of your lives go in trying to manage a perfect external situation which is just impossible to do. No human being is ever capable of creating a perfect external situation because the outside situation will never be hundred percent in your control, no matter how powerful a human being you are. So yoga focuses on the inner situation. If you can create a perfect inward situation, no matter what the external situation, you can be in perfect bliss and peace. (Jaggi Vasudev)
The biggest problem is the moment you say "spirituality," somebody starts talking about God, someone else about mukti, someone else about nirvana and someone else about the Ultimate. They are all already up there. You cannot do anything with people who are already up there. If somebody is down here, you can do something with them. You can only take a step if your feet are on the ground, isn't it? The moment you talk about God, you are not here anymore; you know it all. You can only start a journey from where you are. You cannot start a journey from where you are not. If you are willing to come down to where you are, then we can see what the next step is. If you are already on the third step to heaven, what can I do with you? View quote
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Searching for truth is itself a big illusion because whatever we term the truth is always and everywhere. We don't have to search for it; we don't have to seek it; it always is. Now the only problem is your inability to experience life beyond what you call mind; or right now your capability to experience life only through the limited dimension that we call mind. That is the only problem. View quote
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Why are you stingy about your desires? Why don't you be magnanimous? Why don't you be infinite in your desires? View quote
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How can you become old in spirit? Only by carrying the past, isn't it? If you carry sixty years of burden with you, you're sixty years old. If you don't carry anything, you're like a newborn. The physical body may develop limitations, but the way you are has no limitations. It simply has no limitations. You are this many years old or that many years old simply because you carry that many years of garbage with you. View quote
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