Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.
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When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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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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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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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.