“Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.”

A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

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.

Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.

Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.

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.

You exist without the feeling of existence.

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.

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.

All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I’m very proud to be the first winner here in India.

If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.

It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.