B.k.s. Iyengar
B.k.s. Iyengar Quotes about Yoga
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
Regular practice of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability.
This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.
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.
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a painting. But we must respect the present form of our body. If you pull too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.
The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
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.
Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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.
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body.
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that we develop not only strength in body but attention and awareness in mind. The yogi knows that the physical body is not only the temple for our soul but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.