Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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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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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
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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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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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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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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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Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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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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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 you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
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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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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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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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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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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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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 is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being