Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
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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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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.
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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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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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Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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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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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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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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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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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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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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When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.