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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.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
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Body Mind Practice
People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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Age Body People
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Arrows Soul Yoga
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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Bargain Commodity Earn Sweat
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
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Extensions Precision Space
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
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Dormant Pain Sorrow
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
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
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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Mind Party Two
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul

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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