Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.
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Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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There must be relaxation in full extension.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.
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The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
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Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.