K. Pattabhi Jois famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.
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Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus.
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So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
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It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for yoga philosophy. Mixing both is actually the best.
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The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
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Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
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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 Ä Ä 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.
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If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.
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It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois
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