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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.
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Calm Chaos Yoga
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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Attitude Skills Yoga
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
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Mean Sleep Space
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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Issues Keys Progress
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
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
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
Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Inspiring Values Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
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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Life Sweat Yoga
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken

Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

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