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.
— Jaggi Vasudev
It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.
No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.
This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.
Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.
Corruption has seeped into every section of life.
People have to know that when momentum for a national movement has to be built, basic things have to be talked about first.
There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.
I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.
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.
The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.
When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.
When we are young, revolution is the most romantic thing.
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.
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.
Vijji was not an accomplished yogi. She did what she did with just the sheer intensity of her emotions.
When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical largely because of a very strong attachment and involvement with physical process, and physical process has to be cyclical; only then we exist. Without out cyclical movement there'll be no physical existence.
When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.
What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.
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.
Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.
Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.
Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.
People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.
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.
Generally, I don't need any music to dance. For me, dance is not because of the music. It is simply because I've found the rhythm of life.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Discrimination will impair democracy.
Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.
Youth - the most significant aspect of youth is that it's full of energy.
In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment, as there is so much to be done in India.
It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that they are creating.
There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.
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.
We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.
Growth by accumulation only is sickness.
Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.
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.
My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.
The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.
When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.
I love games, and I'll play any. Games are a way of training ourselves to be heavily involved without being serious.
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.
Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.
Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.
When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.
Our life is a combination of a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time.
