Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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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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Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active
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In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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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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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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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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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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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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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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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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When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.
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The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
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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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Breath is the king of mind.
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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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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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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
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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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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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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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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect