“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.”

Source: Light on Life (2005), p. 28

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Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918–2014

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