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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Asana Body Layers
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Cells Song Yoga
It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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Doe Way Yoga
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
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Mind Soul Training
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
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Inspiring Mistake Trying
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Aim Awareness Yoga
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Capacity Inspiring Same Mistakes
I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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Body Self Yoga
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
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Differences Mind Yoga
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
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
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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Ego Self Yoga

Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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Through surrender the aspirant’s ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

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