Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
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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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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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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 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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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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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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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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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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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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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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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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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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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Breath is the king of mind.
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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 takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
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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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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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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.
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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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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.