If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.

Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.

Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.

If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

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.