Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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 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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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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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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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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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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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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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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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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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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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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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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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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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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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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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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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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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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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 takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.