Jaggi Vasudev

“There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.”

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

“Yoga is not Indian; it does not belong to India.”

“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.”

“Peace is a very poor aspiration. Unfortunately, even so-call spiritual leaders are going about saying that the ultimate goal of life is to find peace. Peace is a fundamental requirement. Why are you making it as the last thing in your life? It must be the first thing that happens to you.”

“What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.”

“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.”

“We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.”

“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.”

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

“Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.”

“Vijji was not an accomplished yogi. She did what she did with just the sheer intensity of her emotions.”

“For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.”

“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.”

“I'm comfortable with anything that fits me well. Bad tailoring is what I am uncomfortable with.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.”

“Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.”