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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Art Symmetrical Yoga
Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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Energy Mind Restless Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Infinite Littles Pieces
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse

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