B. K. S. Iyengar Quotes

Indian yoga teacher and scholar (1918–2014)

B. K. S. Iyengar or Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar ( December 14, 1918 – August 20, 2014), 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 has written many books on yoga practice and philosophy including "Light on Yoga", "Light on Pranayama", and "Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali".

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Birth Name: Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar

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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

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

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.