A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Still the Mind, See your Self – As yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar said: “The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.”
QUOTE CARD: “The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.”
-B.K.S. Iyengar
In Indian thought, everything is permeated by the Supreme Universal Spirit (Paramatma or God) of which the individual human spirit (jivatma) is a part. The system of yoga is so called because it teaches the means by which the jivatma can be united to, or be in communion with the Paramatma, and so secure liberation (moksa).
-B.K.S. Iyengar, in Light on Yoga
Pranayama is a vast subject with illimitable possibilities. It is psychosomatic, since it explores the intimate relationship between the body and the mind. It may appear quite simple and easy, but the moment one sits down to practise, one quickly realizes that it is a difficult art.
-B.K.S. Iyengar, in Light on Pranayama
Words can hypnotise and attract a reader toward religious practice (sadhana) and make him think that he understands a spiritual experience. Reading, however, only makes him more learned, while practice (sadhana) in what he read brings him nearer to truth and clarity. Fact is truth and clarity is purity.
-B.K.S. Iyengar, in Light on Pranayama
