Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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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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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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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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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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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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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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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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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.