Frasi di B. K. S. Iyengar
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Belur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar , maestro indiano di Yoga.

✵ 14. Dicembre 1918 – 20. Agosto 2014  •  Altri nomi ಬಿ ಕೆ ಎಸ್ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್, بیلور کرشناماچر سندرراجا آئنگر, ב.ק.ס. איינגר, Беллур Кришнамачар Сундарараджа Аєнгар, 艾揚格

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B. K. S. Iyengar: 96 citazioni50 Mi piace

B. K. S. Iyengar frasi celebri

“Le acque tranquille di un lago riflettono le bellezze che lo circondano; quando la mente è serena, la bellezza dell'io si riflette in essa.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: Da Teoria e pratica dello Yoga, p. 28.

“Cerchiamo sempre il contatto col cielo, ma quanti di noi sono adeguatamente in contatto con la madre terra?”

B. K. S. Iyengar

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

“La meditazione deve cominciare con il corpo. Esso è il veicolo del Sé, che, se non è controllato nei suoi desideri, ostacola la vera meditazione.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: La vita e l'opera, p. 91

“Perché pensate alla violenza del mondo? Perché non pensate alla violenza che è in voi? Tutti noi dobbiamo fare molto esercizio. perché senza disciplina non possiamo divenire liberi, né può esistere libertà nel mondo senza disciplina.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 20

“Qual è il vostro stato d'animo quando fate yoga? Qual è il motivo? Lo fate per migliorare il vostro aspetto allo scopo di essere più attraenti quando camminate per la strada? Oppure per educare il vostro io dal corpo all'anima? Se è vera quest'ultima ipotesi, lo yoga diventa spirituale.”

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Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 72

“La pratica dello yoga aiuta il corpo pigro a diventare attivo e vibrante. Trasforma la mente, rendendola armoniosa. Lo yoga aiuta a mantenere il corpo e la mente in armonia con l'essenza, l'anima, così che i tre siano fusi in uno.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: Da Commento agli Yoga Sūtra di Patañjali, p. 17.

B. K. S. Iyengar Frasi e Citazioni

“Nello Yoga c'è una cosa che dovete ricordare: la parte più debole è la sorgente dell'azione.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 46

“Sottoponete le parole alla prova della vostra esperienza. Non lasciatevi influenzare dalle parole altrui. Mettete alla prova ogni parola con il lavoro e la pratica […] L'esperienza è reale; le parole non sono reali: le parole sono degli altri, l'esperienza è solo vostra.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 71

“La dieta vegetariana è essenziale per la pratica dello yoga.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: Da Light on Yoga; citato in Rynn Berry, Da Buddha ai Beatles: La vita e le ricette inedite dei grandi vegetariani della storia, traduzione di Annamaria Pietrobono, Gruppo Futura – Jackson Libri, 1996, p. 56. ISBN 88-256-1108-0

“L'intelletto deve essere reso umile affinché il corpo diventi tempio di Dio.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

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

“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.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 7

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

B. K. S. Iyengar

Origine: L'albero dello Yoga, p. 99

“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.”

B. K. S. Iyengar

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

B. K. S. Iyengar: Frasi in inglese

“As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.”

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

“The compass is ourselves. So we are able to infer that there is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.”

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

“When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.”

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Origine: Healthiest You Ever: 365 Ways to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Boost Your BMI, Lower Your Blood Pressure, Increase Your Stamina, Improve Your Cholesterol Levels, and Energize from Head to Toe! http://books.google.co.in/books?id=JDEMOtnIVHoC&pg=PA291, Adams Media, 18 November 2011, p. 291

“You exist without the feeling of existence, existence has no meaning.”

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Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 57

“Yoga was my Destiny, and for the past seventy years, yoga has been my life, a life fused with the practice, philosophy, and teaching of the art of yoga. Like all destinies, like all great adventures, I have gone to places I have imagined before I set out. For me It has been a journey of discovery.”

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

“Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.”

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

“I set off in yoga 70 years ago when ridicule, rejection and outright condemnation were the lot of a seeker through yoga even in its native land of India,” he wrote. “Indeed, if I had become a sadhu, a mendicant holy man, wandering the great trunk roads of British India, begging bowl in hand, I would have met with less derision and won more respect.””

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B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95

“Of the two aspects of asana exertion of our body and 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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Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 45

“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.”

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Origine: Light on Life (2005), p. 28

“The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. … 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.”

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Light on Life: B.K.S. Iyengar's Yoga Insights (2005)

“Generations will remember him as a fine Guru, scholar and a stalwart who brought Yoga into the lives of many across the world.”

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Narendra Modi. Prime Minister of India
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He was a one-person movement…we will strive to keep his Sadhana (legacy) alive. He has achieved eternal peace. He was open to everyone even till his last breath.”

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Geeta Iyengar, his eldest daughter.
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He was a phenomenal person, compassionate, sensitive, caring and broad-minded. He was instrumental in revitalizing an ancient art and taking it to an international level.”

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Harit Iyengar, his grandson
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, gritted his teeth to master English and exposed yoga to the West, teaching such luminaries like violin maestro Yehudi Menuhin and author Aldous Huxley.”

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Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He was the first to introduce simple props such as ropes, belts, wooden blocks and bolsters to enable the elderly and less fit to maintain classical postures correctly and safely. The Iyengar form of yoga is now often employed by physiotherapists treating people with spinal injuries and back problems to recover full movement.”

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BKS Iyengar – obituary

“His first teacher was his brother-in-law, a Brahmin scholar who had set up a school of yoga at the Jaganmohan Palace, and who sometimes denied his student food if his performance was deemed inadequate. He then a teenager, was the youngest member of the Maharaja of Mysore’s entourage, and was asked to demonstrate his ability to stretch and bend his body for visiting dignitaries and guests.”

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B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95

“His practice is characterized by long asanas, or postures, that require extraordinary will and discipline.”

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B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95

“He was credited with his own brand of yoga, and taught author Aldous Huxley and violinist Yehudi Menuhin, among other celebrities.”

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India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies

“His technique was physically challenging, unusual for Americans practicing yoga, but what truly set it apart was his therapeutic approach to the poses. He devised specific prescriptions, or sequences of poses, to help people with ailments such as backache, headaches, high blood pressure, diabetes and many more.”

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Stacie Stukin in: "10 Yogis gather around the guru"

“In the west, where supplication to gurus is not the cultural norm, he elicits such a response from a cadre of longtime yoga practitioners. They credit him with changing their lives -- and the face of yoga in the United States.”

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Stacie Stukin in: "10 Yogis gather around the guru"

“I thought my heart was going to explode. I was just overjoyed. A guru puts you in a moment of happiness. There is no love like that. It is just electric.”

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Stacie Stukin in: "10 Yogis gather around the guru"

“He was extraordinary, a genius; there’s no doubt about it. But his teaching was not for everyone. Different students need different teachers and different teachers find different students. It’s very strange and fascinating.”

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Silvia Prescott, in: "My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master"

“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.”

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Origine: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 28

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