Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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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 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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Breath is the king of mind.
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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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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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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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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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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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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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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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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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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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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.