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The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.

The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?

There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma. Science has proven what goes up must come down, but that's about as far as it's gone. To believe that for every action, word, and thought, there is an equal consequence takes something more intuitive, more personal; it's more metaphysical.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body is diseased. The yoga scriptures say “Manayeva manu ā ā kara a bandha mok ayo (this verse may be transliterated incorrectly),” the mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. If the mind is sick and sad, the whole body gets sick, and all is finished. So first you must give medicine to the mind. Mind medicine: that is yoga.

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.

There is a time to be still in the pose.

The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.

There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.

There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

There is no place to go and no one to be.

There is no one to realize the Self.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

There is nothing but eternity. Eternity has always been and will always be.

There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.

There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.

The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.

The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

There's a lot of stress on young people. They've always got exams and have to reach this goal or reach that goal. Yoga might be really good for them because there must be a lot of emotions that come up and yoga would really help to get a perspective and balance.

There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.

There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom. We've all had those aha moments. In yoga it's called prajna - a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection time. Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the time of rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth.

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.

These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers.

These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting.

The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.

The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.

The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.

The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and not asking for anything ? Loving for loves sake, that's what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love.

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited