Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.
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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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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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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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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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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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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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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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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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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 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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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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Breath is the king of mind.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.