Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

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

When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.