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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.

B.K.S. Iyengar

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Attention Fool Wavering
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
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
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
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Strive Today Twelve
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
The pose begins when you want to leave it.
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Want Yoga Yoga Practice
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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Inspiring Life Wholeness Yoga
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
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
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
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
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Asana Posture Study
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light

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