Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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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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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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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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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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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 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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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
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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 uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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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 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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Breath is the king of mind.
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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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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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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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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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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.