Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.
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If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
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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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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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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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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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The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.