By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with respect and attention. His words will be remembered, for they will be good and true. When one who is established in truth prays with a pure heart, then things he really needs come to him when they are really needed: he does not have to run after them. The man firmly established in truth gets the fruit of his actions without apparently doing anything. God, the source of all truth, supplies his needs and looks after his welfare.

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

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

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.