B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes - Page 12

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• Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body.

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  Intelligent, Serenity, Healthy

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• Think light! Try to impart a feeling of lightness to the body. Think light. This can be achieved by mentally extending yourself outwards from the centre of the body, i.e., think tall. Think not just of raising your arms but of extending them outwards and when you are holding them still, think again of reaching still further away from your body. Do not think of yourself as a small compressed suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding - no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

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  Thinking, Light, Feelings

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• Regarding perfection, that's a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in it, and my mind and my intelligence gets better in my sadhana, and it reaches a certain place. When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens... My body is a laboratory, you can say. 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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  Life, Moving, Yoga

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• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

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  Yoga, Cutting, Winning

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• As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.

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  Fire, Wind, Practice

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works”, p.47, Allied Publishers

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• Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach. If you are repeating what you did before, you are living in the memory, so you are living in the past. That means you don't want to proceed beyond the experience of the past. Retaining that memory is saying, 'Yesterday I did it like that.' When I ask, 'Is there anything new from what I did yesterday?' then there is progress. Am I going forward or am I going backward? Then you understand how to create dynamism in a static asana.

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  Memories, Mean, Past

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• As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

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  Morning, Yoga, Mean

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

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  Inspiring, Ignorance, Soul

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p. 9-10, 2006.

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• Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Exercise

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• The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.

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  Sleep, Doe, Tortoises

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

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  Healthy, Mind, Body

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• Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
  harmonyof the body, senses, mind
  and intellect, reason, consciousness
  and self. When all these are integrated
  that is true yoga.

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  Yoga, Self, Perfect

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• I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.

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  Yoga, Thinking, Blessing

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• Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.

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  Heart, Light, Brain

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.41, Rodale

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• I planted the seed, now you must work a lot otherwise the tiny plant will die.

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  Tiny, Plant, Seeds

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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• Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

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  Yoga, Habit, Conditioning

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.134, Rodale

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• There must be relaxation in full extension.

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  Relaxation, Extensions

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• Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.

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  Joints, Posture, Active

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.35, Rodale

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• To master fear is the most important battle to win.

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  Winning, Important, Battle

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

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  Heart, Tapas, Without Love

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works”, p.42, Allied Publishers

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• Your body is the child of your soul.

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  Children, Soul, Body

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• The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.

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  Wings, Ribs, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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