Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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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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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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When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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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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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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The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.
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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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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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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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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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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.