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

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

Regarding perfection, that's a very difficult question. I can say that I have superseded most in my sadhana [practice]. I am in it, and my mind and my intelligence gets better in my sadhana, and it reaches a certain place. When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens... My body is a laboratory, you can say. I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

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.

We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.