Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.

Jaggi Vasudev
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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

A beard doesn't grow only on gurus; it grows on all men.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

To make any endeavor truly successful, integrity, inspiration, and insight are integral.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

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.

Jaggi Vasudev
Jaggi Vasudev

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.