Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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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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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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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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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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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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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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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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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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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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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
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When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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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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There must be relaxation in full extension.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.