Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.
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The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.
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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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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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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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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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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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One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.
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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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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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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.