As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

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

Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.

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

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

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

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.