Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

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.

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

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.

People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

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

I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.