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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!

B.K.S. Iyengar

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
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Asana Body Perfect
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
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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Activity Together
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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Body Divinity Yoga
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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Anyone Savasana War
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Blow Self Wind
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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Body Needs Spirit
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Flower Yield Yoga
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
The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.
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Breathing Hands Horse
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Heart Intellectual Mind
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Focus Inspiring Jobs
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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Asana Body Progress

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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