Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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

God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.

Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation.

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Sufi music talks about connecting people. It talks about connecting hearts and connecting man with God. Everything that talks about connection is Sufi.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.