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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order 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
We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Above Limitation Rise
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Art Inspiring Teaching
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
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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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Illuminated 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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Freedom Inspiring Yoga
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga

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