Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.
This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.
The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.
The process of wanting to clean India is not an overnight job. At the same time, if we can inspire all citizens, it would happen much more quickly.
No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.
There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.
It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that they are creating.
When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.
If your idea of a guru is from a calendar, who has candy-floss beard and a constipated look on the face, then definitely I am not that.
For me, health, education, and spirituality should never be commercialised.
Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.
Children never seek happiness: they are happy.
Integrity is about pursuing bigger goals that are beyond your personal success. If people see you only for yourself, they will not trust you. And, without trust, no growth and success are possible.
I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.
I'm comfortable with anything that fits me well. Bad tailoring is what I am uncomfortable with.
What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.
Leadership is neither about you or me; it is about something that needs to be done. Leaders figure out how it can be made to happen and get ten or a million people to see that this is the way to do it.
At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.
Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.
If you listen to your body, your body will clearly tell you what kind of food it is happy with.
