As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.

What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.

Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.

The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force.

The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.