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B.K.S. Iyengar Biography

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014), better known as B.K.S. Iyengar, was the founder of the style of yoga known as "Iyengar Yoga" and was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who is often referred to as "the father of modern yoga". He has been credited with popularizing yoga, first in India and then around the world.

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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.

Activity, Asana, Passivity, Together

Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

Body, Clarity, Emotional, Firmness, Intellectual, Soul

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

Followed, Gave, Life, Thinking, Years, Yoga

Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.

Doe, Giving, Impoverish, Withholding

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

Conditioning, Habit, Habits, Sees, Yoga

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.

Broken, Inspiring, Pieces, Wholeness, Yoga

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.

Goal, Inspiring, Part, Spirituality

To master fear is the most important battle to win.

Battle, Fear, Important, Master, Win, Winning

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

Mind, Passive, Tranquil, Yoga

The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

Afraid, Body, Cells, Die, Lived, Yogi

We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

Body, Eye, Physical, Pore, Two

Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

Beauty, Cosmic, Inner Beauty, Light, Practice

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Beginning, Ends, Ignorance, Knowledge

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

Art, Asanas, Inspiring, Learn, Yoga

In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work - let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first!

Come, Discipline, Doubt, Giving Up, Work

Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.

Flower, Fruits, Grow, Richness, Roots, Tree

Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.

Bliss, Prosperity, Success, Yoga

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

Block, Let, Soul, Wall

You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get rid of that screen to be able to see what is behind. X's ideas are limited, that is why he remains on the surface. Y got rid of the limits, so she always goes to the depths. We should always meet people and new subjects with no set frame of mind. We have to live like that even after long acquaintance. We must get rid of every set idea to approach everything and everyone with love.

Ideas, Light, Like, Long, People

Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.

Accurate, Exist, Movement, Spine

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