When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

Sexual 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.

Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.