Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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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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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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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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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.
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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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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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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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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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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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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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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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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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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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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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Breath is the king of mind.
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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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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.