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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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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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 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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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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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
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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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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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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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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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Action is movement with intelligence
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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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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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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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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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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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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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Lack of knowledge is the
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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.
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The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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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.