B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes About Perfection
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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
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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.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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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 I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice].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.
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It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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