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B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes about Yoga - Page 4

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As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

Yoga, Branches, May

B.K.S. Iyengar (2008). “Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 7”, p.252, Allied Publishers

Yoga is a means and an end.

Inspiring, Yoga, Mean

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

Yoga, Restless Mind, Energy

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

Yoga, Practice, Substitutes

B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.94, Rodale

Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

Yoga, Recovery, Impact

B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.23, Rodale

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

Life, Yoga, Thinking

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 I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice].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.

Life, Moving, Yoga

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.

Yoga, Cutting, Winning

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.

Morning, Yoga, Mean

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

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

Yoga, Self, Perfect

"The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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.

Yoga, Self, Perfect

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.

Yoga, Thinking, Blessing

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.

Spiritual, Yoga, Exercise

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

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

Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

Yoga, Mind, Body

B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.50, Rodale

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