Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
B.K.S. IYENGARHappy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Action is movement with intelligence
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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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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First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don’t take a break.
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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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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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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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