Occupation: Teacher Birth: December 14, 1918 Death: August 20, 2014
We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye..
Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul..
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive..
As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self..
Yoga releases the creative potential in life..
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 ….
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 ….
Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integra….
In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!.
The commercialism may wash off sometime later..
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul.
Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light..
What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important..
There must be relaxation in full extension..
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth..
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything..
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend..
Approach each asana with freshness every day..
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit….
Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep sl….
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others..