Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.
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Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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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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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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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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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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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 every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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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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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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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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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.