Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.
PatanjaliSexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.
PatanjaliWhen there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.
Patanjali