Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
B.K.S. IYENGARIlluminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
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Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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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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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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Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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The 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.
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