Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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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Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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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 teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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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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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.
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Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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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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As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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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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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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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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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching