Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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There must be relaxation in full extension.
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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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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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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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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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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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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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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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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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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.
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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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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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.
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In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.
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Lack of knowledge is the