Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.
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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.
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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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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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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 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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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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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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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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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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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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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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I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.