Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.
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That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.
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For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.
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Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.
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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.