Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.
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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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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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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 every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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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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Action is movement with intelligence
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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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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Lack of knowledge is the
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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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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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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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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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
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The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
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Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.