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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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“When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.”

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In Mint newspaper quoted in: BBC News India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-28862979 BBC News, 20 August 2014

“When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 22-23

“Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal… For the yogi, spirit is not separate from body. Spirituality is not ethereal and outside nature but accessible and palpable in our bodies”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 18

“The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 9-10

“Seeing that the general state of my health was so poor, my brother-in-law recommended a stiff regime of yoga practice to knock me into shape and strengthen me up to face life's trials and challenges as I approached adulthood”

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“Patanjali is considered the father of the yoga. On reality as far as we know, he was a yogi and polymath living around the fifth century BC, India, who collated and elaborated knowledge of the yogis’ life and practices. He wrote the Yoga Sutras, lierally a thread of aphorisms about yoga, consciousness and the human condition. Patanjali also explained the relationship between the natural world and the innermost and transcendent soul…. What Patanjali said applies to me and will apply to you.”

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

“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union -- the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.”

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Source: Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga http://books.google.co.in/books?id=BdDtAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA23, Strategic Book Publishing, 2013, p. 23

“If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12

“Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.”

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

“The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.”

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

“By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. This ability to still and gently silence the mind is essential, not only for meditation and the inward journey but also so that the intuitive intelligence can function usefully and in a worthwhile manner in the external world.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12-13

“We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 13

“Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 177

“Yoga goes beyond the physical motions. The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.”

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“My poor health was matched, as it often is when one is sick, by my poor mood. A deep melancholy often overtook me, and at times I asked myself whether life was worth the trouble of living.”

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“As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 6

“You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority.
All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others.
Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”

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

“Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12

“Often, we hear people saying they remain active and light when they do just a little bit of asana practice. When a raw beginner experiences this state of well-being, it is not merely the external or anatomical effects of yoga. It is also about the internal physiological and psychological effects of the practice.”

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“Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12

“When I set off in yoga, I had no understanding of the greater glory of yoga. I too was seeking its physical benefits, and it was these that saved my life. When I say that yoga saved my life, I am not exaggerating. It was yoga that gave me a new birth with health from illness and firmness from infirmity.”

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

“I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless. It is not an empty mind.”

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Source: Ellen Barry "B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95"

“True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 13

“Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”

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

“The head is the seat of intelligence. The heart is the seat of emotion. Both have to work in cooperation with the body.”

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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 29

“When I still find some parts of my body that I have not found before, I tell myself, yes I am progressing scientifically… I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.”

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Source: BBC News "India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies"

“Because I want to make a good death.”

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To a question posed to him “Why do you practise yoga? at the end of his lecture in Bristol quoted in: Silvia Prescott My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/22/my-teacher-bks-iyengar-yoga, The Guardian, 22 August 2014

“Asanas keep the body healthy and strong and in harmony with nature.”

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Source: International Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics. Conference Harvard Divinity School) Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite, Volume 78 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=GuImRK8_SRAC&pg=PA87, Springer Science & Business Media, 31 January 2003, p. 87

“It took me decades to appreciate the depth and true value of Yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga. I am not however, a “ self made man”. I am only what seventy-two years of devoted yoga sadhana has created out of me. Any contribution I have made to the world has been the fruit of my sadhana.”

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

“Yoga transformed my life from a parasitic one to a life of purpose. Later yoga inspired me to partake in the joy and nobility of life, which I carried to many thousands of people without consideration of religion, caste, gender, or nationality.”

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