Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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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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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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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, 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 takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
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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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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.
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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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The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.