Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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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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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.
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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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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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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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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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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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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.
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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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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 the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.