Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
B.K.S. IYENGARI also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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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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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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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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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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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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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
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Breath is the king of mind.
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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