If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

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.

That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.

Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul