Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
B.K.S. IYENGAR
B.K.S. IYENGAR
B.K.S. Iyengar on humility
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B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar 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.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar 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.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar 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?
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar 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.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar 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.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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