JAGGI VASUDEV

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

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

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.

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

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

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.

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.

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.

There are certain rivers which can be linked, which will be beneficial especially for flood mitigation... It will be very useful process, but all rivers in India are not fit to be linked.

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

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

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.

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.

Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.

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

If you listen to your body, your body will clearly tell you what kind of food it is happy with.

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.

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

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or other places of worship - but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.

Youth - the most significant aspect of youth is that it's full of energy.

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?

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.

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.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.