Frasi di B. K. S. Iyengar pagina 2

“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

“While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end… Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.”

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

B. K. S. Iyengar: Frasi in inglese

“When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.”

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

“Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal… For the yogi, spirit is not separate from body. Spirituality is not ethereal and outside nature but accessible and palpable in our bodies”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 22-23

“The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 18

“Seeing that the general state of my health was so poor, my brother-in-law recommended a stiff regime of yoga practice to knock me into shape and strengthen me up to face life's trials and challenges as I approached adulthood”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 9-10

“Patanjali is considered the father of the yoga. On reality as far as we know, he was a yogi and polymath living around the fifth century BC, India, who collated and elaborated knowledge of the yogis’ life and practices. He wrote the Yoga Sutras, lierally a thread of aphorisms about yoga, consciousness and the human condition. Patanjali also explained the relationship between the natural world and the innermost and transcendent soul…. What Patanjali said applies to me and will apply to you.”

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

“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union -- the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.x-xi

“If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.”

Origine: Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga http://books.google.co.in/books?id=BdDtAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA23, Strategic Book Publishing, 2013, p. 23

“Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12

“The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.”

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

“By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. This ability to still and gently silence the mind is essential, not only for meditation and the inward journey but also so that the intuitive intelligence can function usefully and in a worthwhile manner in the external world.”

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

“We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12-13

“Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 13

“Yoga goes beyond the physical motions. The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 177

“My poor health was matched, as it often is when one is sick, by my poor mood. A deep melancholy often overtook me, and at times I asked myself whether life was worth the trouble of living.”

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

“As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.”

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

“You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority.
All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others.
Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 6

“Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.”

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

“Often, we hear people saying they remain active and light when they do just a little bit of asana practice. When a raw beginner experiences this state of well-being, it is not merely the external or anatomical effects of yoga. It is also about the internal physiological and psychological effects of the practice.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12

“Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.”

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

“When I set off in yoga, I had no understanding of the greater glory of yoga. I too was seeking its physical benefits, and it was these that saved my life. When I say that yoga saved my life, I am not exaggerating. It was yoga that gave me a new birth with health from illness and firmness from infirmity.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12

“I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless. It is not an empty mind.”

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

“True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.”

Origine: Ellen Barry "B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95"

“Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 13

“The head is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the seat of emotion. Both have to work in cooperation with the body.”

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

“When I still find some parts of my body that I have not found before, I tell myself, yes I am progressing scientifically… 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.”

Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 29

“Because I want to make a good death.”

Origine: BBC News "India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies"

“Asanas keep the body healthy and strong and in harmony with nature.”

To a question posed to him “Why do you practise yoga? at the end of his lecture in Bristol quoted in: Silvia Prescott My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/22/my-teacher-bks-iyengar-yoga, The Guardian, 22 August 2014

“It took me decades to appreciate the depth and true value of Yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga. I am not however, a “ self made man”. I am only what seventy-two years of devoted yoga sadhana has created out of me. Any contribution I have made to the world has been the fruit of my sadhana.”

Origine: International Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics. Conference Harvard Divinity School) Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite, Volume 78 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=GuImRK8_SRAC&pg=PA87, Springer Science & Business Media, 31 January 2003, p. 87

“Yoga transformed my life from a parasitic one to a life of purpose. Later yoga inspired me to partake in the joy and nobility of life, which I carried to many thousands of people without consideration of religion, caste, gender, or nationality.”

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