Quote

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

B.K.S. Iyengar
Clarity
Calm
Asanas
Strength
Purges
Practice
Impurities
Body
Asana
Mind
Impurity
Firmness
Bringing

More quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar

Image
I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Image
It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
B.K.S. Iyengar