SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV QUOTES

SADHGURU QUOTES ON LOVE AND LIFE

• A world full of love, light and laughter - its time has come.

• As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, many religions of the world are an expression of the same divine source.

• How can you love one and hate the other, when the same divine exists in all.

• The spiritual process is just to create the right kind of chemistry, where you are naturally peaceful, naturally joyous. When you are joyous by your very own nature, when you don't have to do anything to be happy, then the very dimension of your life, the very way you perceive and express yourself in the world will change. The very way you experience your life will change.

• True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

• Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

• Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

• The word ‘yoga’ literally means ‘union’. When you experience everything as one in your consciousness, then you are in yoga.

• Having a lot of money in your pocket is good, isn't it? If it enters your head it becomes misery because that's not its place. It should be in your pocket. If it's in your pocket, there are many wonderful things you can do in the world. It is a means, and it is a tremendous empowerment.

• Trees and humans are in an intimate relationship. What they exhale, we inhale, what we exhale they inhale. This is a constant relationship that nobody can afford to break or live without.

• One who is above his intellect, one who is no longer a part of his mind, is a Buddha. 

• You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination.

• Harmony in the world will happen only when man is truly  harmonious within himself.

• If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

• The physical needs logic. For that which is beyond the physical, logic is of no use.

• Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

• A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

• Money can only make your surroundings pleasant. It cannot create inner pleasantness.

• If you want everyone to fall in love with you, the first thing is, you must fall in love with all of them.

• Whenever a child enters people's lives, most people tend to think it is time to teach. No. When a child enters your life, it is time to learn because between you and your child, who is more joyful? - The child.

• Everything in this cosmos is happening wonderfully well. But just one nasty little thought coming up in your head is enough to make it a bad day.

• Whether god or somebody else loves you does not make a difference for you. If you are loving, it makes your life very sweet.

• When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

• The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

• Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

• The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

• Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind.  

• If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

• The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

• Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

• If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you.

• The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body, your mind, your emotion, your situations, your home, your communities, nations, your life in general and the world.

• The hen that you are, how will you know what deceptive ways Grace will descend. It is Grace that brought you here and it is Grace that will deliver. I prefer the hen that looks up to the sky than an eagle that flies but always looking down. How high is not the question, but how intense is your longing for the sky. May you always be in Grace.

• Irrespective of what the nature of their immediate business may be, in reality there is only one business – the business of human well being. Whatever you are doing, fundamentally, you are doing it for human well being, it is just everyone’s scale and scope that is different. For one person, human well being means their well being alone. For another person, it includes their family; for another, it includes their community, nation or race. For another, it includes everyone and everything on the planet.

• With what you get, you can make a living. Only with what you give, you can make a life.

• If we are serious about saving the environment, we need to adjust our population growth to the natural resources that we have.

• Every society needs individuals who go on planting mango trees without thinking whether they would get to eat the fruit or not.

• The essence of Isha Yoga is to make every aspect of your life a stepping stone for a higher possibility.

• Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

• Fear has essentially come into human life because of lack of clarity. Wherever there is clarity, there is no fear.

• Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

• In the vastness of the cosmic space, you are like a grain of sand.

• If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

• When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

• Everything that occurs in your life can enrich you if you handle it with awareness.

• If you stop your mental muddle, life is bliss.

• Health is not just being disease-free. Health is when every cell in your body is bouncing with life.

• Teachings and philosophies cannot transform people they can only inspire.

• When you become free from the meanness of the mind, an indiscriminate sense of love and inclusion arises.

• God is the Creator, not a manager. Humans have the privilege of managing their own lives.

• If the feminine is lost on the planet, nothing of beauty, nothing of tenderness, nothing of truly aesthetic value will survive.

• Likes are always bigger bondages than dislikes.

• Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying. It is for those who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life. 

• To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play with your identifications  don't let them rule you.

• Family or no family; city or forest  your external arrangements don't decide how you are inside.

• Meditation is the only freedom as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind. 

• The seed of enlightenment is there in every being. Enlightenment is just a realization.

• Only when you are willing to look at the horror of who you are, the beauty of who you are can be nurtured.

• An idle mind is Divine's workshop. An idler's mind is devil's workshop.

• In enlightenment, there is no pleasure, no pain just nameless ecstasy. 

• Only when the masculine and the feminine play an equal role in our lives, there will be beauty and purpose to our existence.

• Love is a longing to include someone as a part of yourself. It is a possibility to become more than what you are, by inclusion.

• Whatever crisis is happening in your life, don't make a crisis out of yourself.

• Money is only a means, not a goal. 

• With every single action that we perform, with every single thought and feeling that we generate within us, we can create a better situation around us.

• Joy is a natural phenomenon. Misery is your creation. 

• Having children is not the key to a fulfilled life. You can have a dozen children and still be frustrated.

• When unpleasant things happen in our lives, we can become either wise or wounded- that is a choice we have. 

• If we can make just 1% of the population meditative, this world will be a different place. 

• If there is something that means something to you, you should not postpone it for a single day. 

• Everything comes from nothingness and goes back to nothingness. Nothingness is the basis of existence.

• Sadhana is to master one's body, mind, emotion, and energies.

• Diwali is not just about lighting lamps outside. Let your inner light shine.

• When there is no envy, jealousy, and comparison within you, you can focus your full capabilities on doing what is needed. 

• The idea of marriage is to multiply joy. If you multiply your miseries, its a crime.

• What you think of yourself and what the world thinks of you is only socially relevant. It has no existential relevance.

• May your decisions be based upon what truly matters and works, not upon your likes and dislikes.

• People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward. 

• Whatever the shape of eyes and nose  a joyful face is always a beautiful face.

• Having the inner strength, balance, and capability to live well irrespective of outside situations and conditions-that is freedom.

• Only the physical can be threatened. When a dimension beyond the physical becomes a living experience for you, there will be no more fear. 

• Pain is a natural process. Suffering is self-created.

• To go through life effortlessly, children need an atmosphere that nurtures inner strength.

• It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

• A mundane life goes from womb to tomb. A life of awareness leads to liberation from the process of Life and Death.

• Your property, your education, your beliefs, everything will drop when you drop this body. The only thing that goes beyond this body is your awareness.

• You do not have a duty towards anyone or anything. If you have love and care, you will do what is needed.

• What happens in your life is not 100% in your control. But what you make out of it is 100% up to you.

• Joy is not to be sought outside  joy is your original state of being. If you do not mess up your mind, you will naturally be joyful.

• To be in company is sweet. To be alone is absolute.

• Propelled by rage, we substitute one injustice for another. Propelled by compassion, we do what is needed. 

• A spiritual person and a materialistic person are both seeking the same infinite. One is seeking it consciously, the other one unconsciously.

• Life knows no failure. Failure exists only for those who are always comparing themselves with others.

• Never try to destroy the enemy. Destroy the enmity.

• Being human means being capable of looking at every life form with a sense of tenderness.

• Whenever you give others poison, a part of it enters you too. Whenever you give others nourishment, a part of it enters you too.

• Optimists hallucinate; pessimists get depressed. Both will not get anywhere. You must be willing to see everything the way it is. 

• If you raise your inner energies to their highest pitch, God becomes a reality.

• Awareness is life. Life is awareness. There is no other way to be.

• A situation becomes stressful only when you compulsively react to it. 

• For wealth to translate into well being, you need a spiritual element within you.

• Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

• As long as you separate yourself from life around you, you cannot reverberate with existence.

• Love is not a suffering. If you have love for someone or something, when they are with you, you can enjoy their presence, and when they are not with you, you can enjoy their absence. What you are doing in the name of love is just longing to become one with somebody.

• Spiritual process is a seeking. Religion means assuming things that you do not know.

• Do not bother about mukti (liberation), only concern yourself about your limitations, and see how to release them.

• Life is not a question of use. It is magnificent, just the way it is.

• Your body, your brain, and your whole system will function at their best only when you are joyful, exuberant, and ecstatic.

• If you know how to bring clarity to your mind,  you will see  the whole existence is open. 

• If no matter what is given to you, you can make something beautiful out of it, that is intelligence .

• Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

• Your psychological status, your emotional nonsense- this is known terrain for you. This is something that you should deal with. Known terrain you must handle. There is unknown terrain, that’s where you need me.  

• If we are serious about saving the environment, we need to adjust our population growth to the natural resources that we have.

• Leadership is not assertion of yourself, leadership is the art of fulfilling the aspirations of everyone.

• If you think something or someone is against you, you lost your yoga, you lost your inclusiveness.