Sreechinth C - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV QUOTES

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Author: Sreechinth C

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DEDICATION

This book, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes is dedicated at the feet of Almighty.

The Mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought, every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body.

- Jaggi Vasudev

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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INTRODUCTION

The founder of Isha Yoga, Jaggi Vasudev, is mostly revered as Sadhguru by the volunteers. This mystic yogi is a great visionary with a master of spirituality. As a perfect blend of sophistication and convenience, with his life he converted yoga from its hermetic disciplines from an obsolete past to a vitally relevant contemporary form.

As the youngest son of Susheela and Dr Vasudev, Jagadishs birth was in a typical Kannada family of Mysore. His childhood was in different parts of the country since his father was an ophthalmologist with the Indian Railways and got frequent transfers. The love for nature was in him from younger days. He frequently visited the nearby forests and would be lost admiring it, returning home after two or three days. The turning point of his life was the meeting with Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji who gave him practices of some simple yoga asanas.

The college life in University of Mysore, made him a lover of motorcycles and an exquisite traveler. Though he travelled almost all places in the country, his haunting destination was the Chamundi Hills, near to Mysore. To account his travelling expenses, he began several businesses including poultry farming and brick works.

23 September, 1982 was a marked day in his life. On the day, he had a spiritual experience when he was meditating on a rock in Chamundi Hills. According to him that was a much mystical experience and he traveled extensively in order to get an insight of his experience. Finally it was yoga that he selected to share his inner experiences to others.

His first yoga class was with just seven participants in Mysore. He refused to take payments for classes and the donations were given to a local charity. This was later elaborated to a non-religious, non-profitable organization called the Isha Foundation. Now this organization is offering yoga programs all over the world including UK, USA, Singapore, China, Malaysia and Australia. He also gave roots to Project Green Hands, an initiative to increase the greeneries of Tamil Nadu by 10%. For these efforts, he was endowed with Indira Gandhi Paryvaran Puraskar by the Government of India. Isha Foundation is continuing its social involvement with rural empowerment scheme Action for Rural Rejuvenation (ARR) and educational initiative Isha Vidhya. This foundation is acknowledged with the special consultative status by the Economic and Social council of the United Nations. Sadguru is the designer of several eco-friendly designs and spaces for the Isha Yoga Center which acclaimed wide attention. His eloquent speeches transmits no particular ideology or religion, but the inner sciences of universal appeal. As an international figure of yoga and meditation, here we have his profound wisdom flown as his words...

JAGGI VASUDEV QUOTES

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

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.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

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.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

If it is conditional, it is not love

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

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.

We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

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

It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.