Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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Jaggi Vasudev

Profession : Author

Birth : September 3, 1957

For me, health, education, and spirituality should never be commercialised.

Jaggi Vasudev

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

Jaggi Vasudev

Yoga is not a belief system - it is not a new religion, philosophy or a teaching but a technology. I call it a technology because you don't have to believe it; you just have to learn to use it. It does not matter what your religion is, what your colour is, what your race is, or where you come from. If you learn to use yoga, it works for you.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

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Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

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

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.

Jaggi Vasudev

In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment, as there is so much to be done in India.

Jaggi Vasudev

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

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There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.

Jaggi Vasudev

Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

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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 largely because of a very strong attachment and involvement with physical process, and physical process has to be cyclical; only then we exist. Without out cyclical movement there'll be no physical existence.

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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.

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