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The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.

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
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
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Body Mind Soul
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
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 best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Faces Overcoming Way
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
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
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Empty Empty Mind Mind
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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Pose Relaxation Repose
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.
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Asana Body Posture

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