Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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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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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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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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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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Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast.
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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
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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 am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
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Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That's why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back.