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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

B.K.S. Iyengar

As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Is 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.
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Body Practice Research
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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Art Philosophy Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
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
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
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Illumination Journey Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
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Inspiring Stress Struggle
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall

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