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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

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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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Attitude Skills Yoga
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
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
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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Balance Eternity Present
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring 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 must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Creative Release Yoga
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
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Ego Self Yoga
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
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Body Health Inspiring Soul

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