Jaggi Vasudev

“'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.”

“It's very important when you are young you don't take sides; you look at everything fresh and see, what is the best thing we can do? For ourselves, for the society in which we live, the country in which we live, the world in which we live, what's the best thing we can do?”

“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.”

“When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. 'Live' means in its uncooked condition, because a live cell has everything in itself to sustain life. The idea is to take life into you. When we cook food, it destroys the life in it.”

“Growth by accumulation only is sickness.”

“If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of misery.”

“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.”

“There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.”

“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.”

“When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.”

“Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.”

“I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.”

“A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.”

“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.”

“I think family businesses are still crucial for India's economy, but they need to professionalize. For young entrepreneurs, too, family should play a significant part.”

“Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.”

“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.”

“Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.”

“When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.”

“If you ask across the section of farmers in the country how many of them want their children to go into farming, believe me, it is less than 10 per cent. Nobody wants their children to go into farming.”