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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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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Abundance Humility Love
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
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Little Things Littles Thinking
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.
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Attitude Skills Yoga
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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Life Sweat Yoga
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Inspiring Life Need Yoga
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
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
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
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
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Faults Inspiring Same Mistakes
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Practice Substitute 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
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
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Asana Body Prayer
The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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Today Yesterday Yoga
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present – the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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Balance Eternity State
Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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Body Practice Research

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