Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

To master fear is the most important battle to win.

Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.

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

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.