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One’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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Inspiring Motivational Success
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture
You exist without the feeling of existence.
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Existence Feelings Inspiring
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
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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Practice Understanding Yesterday
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Keys Pain Yoga
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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Appreciate Discovery Yoga
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
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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May Mind World
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga

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