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B.K.S. Iyengar

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B.K.S. Iyengar was an Indian yoga teacher who created Iyengar Yoga and wrote books such as Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama.

Quick Facts About B.K.S. Iyengar

Notable works: Light on Yoga

About B.K.S. Iyengar

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar taught yoga in India and founded the Iyengar Yoga style. He wrote several books, including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. He studied early with Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, often called the father of modern yoga, and helped spread yoga first across India and then worldwide.

Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar · Page 7

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

Action

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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

Art

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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit.

Body

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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

Body

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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

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The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses

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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen…

Beauty

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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress

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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which…

Divine

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If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is…

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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…

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“For one who lacks ethical discipline and perfect physical health, there can be no spiritual illumination. Body, mind and spirit are inseparable:…

Discipline

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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…

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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

Freedom

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While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which…

Awareness

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“Freedom, that is to say direct experience of samadhi, can be attained only by disciplined conduct and renunciation of sensual desires and…

Discipline

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There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our…

Class

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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and…

Abundance

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As long as you do not feel the serenity in the body, in each and every joint, there is no chance for…

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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of…

Beauty

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Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.

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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

Difference

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

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When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.

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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul

Awareness

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When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

Failure

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This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

Body

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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Birth

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Regulate the breathing, and thereby control the mind.

Breathing

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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

Giving

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Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

Birthday

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The brain is the hardest part of the body to adjust in asanas.

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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a…

Approach

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When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of…

Fulfillment

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Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is…

Art

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B.K.S. Iyengar by topic

Yoga (113) Body (87) Mind (78) Psychology (69) Inspirational (63) Life (40) Love (39) Soul (36) Spirituality (29) Practice (29) Inspiring (29) Self (21) Freedom (18) Peace (17) Health (17)