“As soon as a person starts thinking, ‘I want to be a better person,’ that is the start of Yoga.”

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant’s back.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

You can’t teach a hunter it’s wrong to kill.

Who realizes what? That is realization.

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

Tapas is not a penance, it’s a mental training to develop will power

We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart