Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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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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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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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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Do not live in the future, only the present is real
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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.
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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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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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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 meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
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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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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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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.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.