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B.K.S. Iyengar – twórca jogi iyengarowskiej, jeden z największych współczesnych autorytetów w hathajodze. Uczeń „ojca współczesnej hathajogi” – Śri Tirumalai Krishnamacharyi. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Grudzień 1918 – 20. Sierpień 2014   •   Natępne imiona ಬಿ ಕೆ ಎಸ್ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್, بیلور کرشناماچر سندرراجا آئنگر, ב.ק.ס. איינגר, Беллур Кришнамачар Сундарараджа Аєнгар, 艾揚格
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“As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.”

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

“The compass is ourselves. So we are able to infer that there is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.”

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

“When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.”

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Źródło: Healthiest You Ever: 365 Ways to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Boost Your BMI, Lower Your Blood Pressure, Increase Your Stamina, Improve Your Cholesterol Levels, and Energize from Head to Toe! http://books.google.co.in/books?id=JDEMOtnIVHoC&pg=PA291, Adams Media, 18 November 2011, p. 291

“You exist without the feeling of existence, existence has no meaning.”

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Źródło: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 57

“Yoga was my Destiny, and for the past seventy years, yoga has been my life, a life fused with the practice, philosophy, and teaching of the art of yoga. Like all destinies, like all great adventures, I have gone to places I have imagined before I set out. For me It has been a journey of discovery.”

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

“Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.”

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

“I set off in yoga 70 years ago when ridicule, rejection and outright condemnation were the lot of a seeker through yoga even in its native land of India,” he wrote. “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.””

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B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95

“Of the two aspects of asana exertion of our body and penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat”

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Źródło: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 45

“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.”

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Źródło: Light on Life (2005), p. 28

“The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. … 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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Light on Life: B.K.S. Iyengar's Yoga Insights (2005)

“Generations will remember him as a fine Guru, scholar and a stalwart who brought Yoga into the lives of many across the world.”

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Narendra Modi. Prime Minister of India
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He was a one-person movement…we will strive to keep his Sadhana (legacy) alive. He has achieved eternal peace. He was open to everyone even till his last breath.”

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Geeta Iyengar, his eldest daughter.
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He was a phenomenal person, compassionate, sensitive, caring and broad-minded. He was instrumental in revitalizing an ancient art and taking it to an international level.”

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Harit Iyengar, his grandson
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, gritted his teeth to master English and exposed yoga to the West, teaching such luminaries like violin maestro Yehudi Menuhin and author Aldous Huxley.”

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Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95

“He was the first to introduce simple props such as ropes, belts, wooden blocks and bolsters to enable the elderly and less fit to maintain classical postures correctly and safely. The Iyengar form of yoga is now often employed by physiotherapists treating people with spinal injuries and back problems to recover full movement.”

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BKS Iyengar – obituary

“His first teacher was his brother-in-law, a Brahmin scholar who had set up a school of yoga at the Jaganmohan Palace, and who sometimes denied his student food if his performance was deemed inadequate. He then a teenager, was the youngest member of the Maharaja of Mysore’s entourage, and was asked to demonstrate his ability to stretch and bend his body for visiting dignitaries and guests.”

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B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95

“His practice is characterized by long asanas, or postures, that require extraordinary will and discipline.”

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B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95

“He was credited with his own brand of yoga, and taught author Aldous Huxley and violinist Yehudi Menuhin, among other celebrities.”

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India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies

“His technique was physically challenging, unusual for Americans practicing yoga, but what truly set it apart was his therapeutic approach to the poses. He devised specific prescriptions, or sequences of poses, to help people with ailments such as backache, headaches, high blood pressure, diabetes and many more.”

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Stacie Stukin in: "10 Yogis gather around the guru"

“In the west, where supplication to gurus is not the cultural norm, he elicits such a response from a cadre of longtime yoga practitioners. They credit him with changing their lives -- and the face of yoga in the United States.”

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Stacie Stukin in: "10 Yogis gather around the guru"

“I thought my heart was going to explode. I was just overjoyed. A guru puts you in a moment of happiness. There is no love like that. It is just electric.”

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Stacie Stukin in: "10 Yogis gather around the guru"

“He was extraordinary, a genius; there’s no doubt about it. But his teaching was not for everyone. Different students need different teachers and different teachers find different students. It’s very strange and fascinating.”

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Silvia Prescott, in: "My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master"

“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.”

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

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