Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

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

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

I find myself only by losing myself.

I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.