There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

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.

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

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.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.

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.

When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.

India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.

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.

To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.

In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment, as there is so much to be done in India.

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.

Our life is a combination of a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time.

Youth - the most significant aspect of youth is that it's full of energy.

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.

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

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.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

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?

When we are young, revolution is the most romantic thing.

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.

I love games, and I'll play any. Games are a way of training ourselves to be heavily involved without being serious.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

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.

The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.

There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.

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.

People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.

People have to know that when momentum for a national movement has to be built, basic things have to be talked about first.

Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.

Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

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.

Successful people suffer because they work beyond their energy.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.

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.

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.

No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.

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.

When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.

If your idea of a guru is from a calendar, who has candy-floss beard and a constipated look on the face, then definitely I am not that.

For me, health, education, and spirituality should never be commercialised.

Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.

Children never seek happiness: they are happy.

Integrity is about pursuing bigger goals that are beyond your personal success. If people see you only for yourself, they will not trust you. And, without trust, no growth and success are possible.

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.