Frasi di B. K. S. Iyengar

“L'argomento di cui io mi occupo è lo Yoga: la via per coltivare il corpo e i sensi, per affinare la mente, per educare l'intelligenza fino a raggiungere la pace dell'anima che è l'essenza del nostro essere.”

Origine: La vita e l'opera, pp. 161 ss.

“La mia raccomandazione a tutti voi è di non cercare di aiutare là dove riconoscete di non sapere, perché è un rischio.”

Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 7

“I sūtra sono brevi, ma pieni di gemme di saggezza su cui riflettere e con cui vivere: Patañjali ha studiato la condizione umana in profondità, ha identificato la causa della sofferenza dell'uomo e il modo e il modo di superarla, cioè come ognuno di noi può vivere una vita più piena e più felice.
Ha analizzato la coscienza, i suoi stati e i suoi umori; la sua metodologia mostra una mente originale, un intelletto chiaro e penetrante, una capcità analitica sorprendente.”

Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 99

“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”

Origine: Da Commento agli Yoga Sūtra di Patañjali, p. 275.

B. K. S. Iyengar: Frasi in inglese

“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/”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 59-60

“Breath is the king of mind.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.xiv

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”

B.K.S. Iyengar libro Light on Yoga

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 28
Origine: Light on Yoga
Contesto: Health is not to be mistaken for mere existence. It is the balance of the body, mind and self... there rests the mind. If the breath scatters, the mind wanders. If mind wanders, the breath scatters. So still the breath to still the mind. Mind is the king.

“It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.”

B.K.S. Iyengar libro Light on Yoga

Origine: Light on Yoga

“Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.”

“You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul. Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you must choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it.”

Origine: Light on Life

“When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.22

“Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal. Nature is in this sense like an actor who has only different roles.”

In Mint newspaper quoted in: BBC News India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-28862979 BBC News, 20 August 2014

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 8

“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 27

“Be inspired but not proud.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 8

“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”

Origine: Light on Life

“Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills — it has to be earned through sweat. It is something that we must build up.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.xiv

“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”

Light on Life: B.K.S. Iyengar's Yoga Insights

“Non-physical reality is called Parusa in Sanskrit or Universal Soul is an abiding reality. It is logical, but remains conceptual to our minds under we experience it’s realization within ourselves.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 48

“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 9

“Demonstration of one's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.”

Origine: Nancy Hine The Depression Trap: Ten Ways to Set Yourself Free http://books.google.co.in/books?id=7PxT2AJS_H4C&pg=PA61, Red Raft Publishing LLP, 2008, p. 61

“There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 11

“The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 5