“The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.”

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.

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.

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

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.

It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?

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

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

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.