Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

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.

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.

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

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

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

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.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

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.

I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.

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

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

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

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.