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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
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Community Growth Yoga
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
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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Essence Order Yoga
Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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Accurate Movement Spine
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
If you keep your armpits open, you won’t get depressed.
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Armpit Armpits Open
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
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Inspiring Symphony Yoga
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
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator.
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Adventure Inspiring Journey
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
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Anything Body Mind Right
A yogi’s brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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Brain Feet Yogi
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Lakes Mind Self
Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.
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Ego Grace Rain
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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Long Perfect Thinking
Action is movement with intelligence
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Action Intelligence Movement

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

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