I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
B.K.S. IYENGARI think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
B.K.S. IYENGARI am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
B.K.S. IYENGARLearning is as much an art as teaching
B.K.S. IYENGARWe are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
B.K.S. IYENGARWords cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
B.K.S. IYENGARYour body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
B.K.S. IYENGARIs it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
B.K.S. IYENGAREverybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
B.K.S. IYENGARI think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don’t blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
B.K.S. IYENGARThe supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.
B.K.S. IYENGARAsana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
B.K.S. IYENGARAny action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
B.K.S. IYENGARHealth begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
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