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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Dies Happily Majestically People
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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Mind Practice Yoga
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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Body Mind Ultimate Freedom
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Mind Self Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
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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Differences Mind Yoga
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
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Inspiring Success Yoga
How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?
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Big God Inspiring Know
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
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
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

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