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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature

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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
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Prayer Standing Yoga
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Body Discrimination Mind
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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Art Soul Yoga
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song 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
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.
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Active Dull Easy
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Interpreted One Reality Way
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Body Painting relief
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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Mistake Trying Way
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Children Inspiring Soul
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Armpits Brain Light
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
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Done Heart Yoga
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

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