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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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India Nations Peace
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
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
Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Impact Recovery Yoga
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.
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Fire Flames Yoga
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
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.
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Body Cells Yogi
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
Breath is the king of mind.
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Inspiring Kings Mind
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Attention Self Worry
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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Asana Mind Past
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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Faces Helping Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
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Bliss Inspiring Missing
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one’s life purposeful, useful and noble.
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Art Philosophy Spiritual
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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End Ignorance Knowledge
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Discipline Doubt Give Up
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.
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Rivers Uplifting Water
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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Discipline Soul Yoga

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