Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.

If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.

To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.