Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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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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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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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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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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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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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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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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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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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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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 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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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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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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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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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head