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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, souvent appelé B. K. S. Iyengar , est un maître de pratique du yoga et plus particulièrement du Haṭha Yoga. Son influence a largement dépassé le monde du yoga. Il a notamment inspiré le personnage de Dhalsim, de la saga Street Fighter.

B.K.S. Iyengar vivait à Pune, dans l'État de Maharashtra, où il a fondé son école, le Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute . Enfant chétif, maladif sans grande éducation, il fut élève de Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya durant deux ans ; celui-ci lui fit remarquer qu'il n'était pas fait pour cet art. De cette absence de reconnaissance de son maître, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar devint son propre maître et son premier élève. Dans la tradition du Haṭha Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar insistait particulièrement sur la pratique des Āsanas — les postures de yoga — et du Prāṇayāma — la respiration yogique. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. décembre 1918 – 20. août 2014   •   Autres noms ಬಿ ಕೆ ಎಸ್ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್, بیلور کرشناماچر سندرراجا آئنگر, ב.ק.ס. איינגר, Беллур Кришнамачар Сундарараджа Аєнгар, 艾揚格
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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar: Citations en anglais

B.K.S. Iyengar citation: “Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”

“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61

“Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life/”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 59-60

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.xiv

“Breath is the king of mind.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 28
Source: Light on Yoga
Contexte: Health is not to be mistaken for mere existence. It is the balance of the body, mind and self... there rests the mind. If the breath scatters, the mind wanders. If mind wanders, the breath scatters. So still the breath to still the mind. Mind is the king.

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”

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Source: Light on Yoga

“Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.”

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Source: Light on Life

“You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul. Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you must choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.22

“Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal. Nature is in this sense like an actor who has only different roles.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 8

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 27

“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 8

“Be inspired but not proud.”

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Source: Light on Life

“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.xiv

“Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills — it has to be earned through sweat. It is something that we must build up.”

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Light on Life: B.K.S. Iyengar's Yoga Insights

“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 48

“Non-physical reality is called Parusa in Sanskrit or Universal Soul is an abiding reality. It is logical, but remains conceptual to our minds under we experience it’s realization within ourselves.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 9

“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”

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Source: Nancy Hine The Depression Trap: Ten Ways to Set Yourself Free http://books.google.co.in/books?id=7PxT2AJS_H4C&pg=PA61, Red Raft Publishing LLP, 2008, p. 61

“Demonstration of one's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 11

“There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 5

“The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 130

“The art of teaching is also to know when to stop. It is good when people want to be better, physically, morally, spiritually, intellectually. But a fashion? No! Yoga is a painful art. It’s not like dance or music, where the person watching gets pleasure. Only the person doing it finds joy. It has nothing to do with externals.”

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Source: BKS Iyengar – obituary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11045993/BKS-Iyengar-obituary.html, The Telegraph, 20 August 2014

“Yoga, as it was understood by its sages, is designed to satisfy all the human needs in a comprehensive, seamless whole. Its goal is nothing less than to attain the integrity of oneness –oneness with ourselves and as a consequence oneness with all that lies beyond ourselves. We become the harmonious microcosm in the universal microcosm. Oneness, what I call integration, is the foundation for wholeness, inner peace, and ultimate freedom.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xiii

“All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 83

“Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight. The Universe did not create Life in the hope that the failure of the majority would underscore the success of the few. Spirtiuality atleast, we live in a democracy, an equal opportunity society.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.xiv

“We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 7

“I set off in yoga seventy years ago when ridicule, rejection, and outright condemnation were the lot of a seeker through yoga even in its native land of India. Indeed If I had become a sadhu, a mendicant holy man, wandering the great trunk roads of British India, begging bowl in hand, I would have met with less derision and won more respect. At one time I was asked to become a sannyasin and renounce the world, but I declined. I wanted to live as an ordinary householder with all the trials and tribulations of life and to take my yoga practice r to average people who share my life with me the common life of work, marriage and children. I was blessed with all three…”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xiii

“Yoga ferried me across the great river from the bank of ignorance to the shore of knowledge and wisdom.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.x

“We think of intelligence and perception as taking place exclusively in our brains, but yoga teaches us that awareness and intelligence must permeate the body. Each part of the body literally has to engulfed by the intelligence. We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 28

“You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xxii

“While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end… Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.”

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