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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
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Artist Inspiring Practice
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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Energy Inward Mind
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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Brain Mind Sake
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
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Explore Good Helping Maximum Teacher
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer

Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

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