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Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
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Mind Soul Stills
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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Looks Mirrors Yoga
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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Brain Children Play
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
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?
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Block Soul Wall
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Breath Kings Mind
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Fulfillment Plant Sunlight
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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Hard Work Humility Spiritual
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
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Asana Kings Reason
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Body Mind Need Sound
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
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

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

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