“If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.”

No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant’s back.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

You can’t teach a hunter it’s wrong to kill.

Who realizes what? That is realization.

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

As soon as a person starts thinking, ‘I want to be a better person,’ that is the start of Yoga.

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.

More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, ’cause it’s a nice balance to the weightlifting.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down.

The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.