Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

As you extend in an asana, you must maintain this lightness. It is for this reason, I say, that in all asanas, ascend to descend ...

doing yoga. But too little tension is weakness. There should be right tension in the body. Right tension is healthy tension. You ...

\ body. For each asana or pranayama, you have to know what the func­ tion or state of each area and each part of the body should ...

and regrets. Only the Self takes you to the present, for the divine can be experienced only now. The past, present, and future a ...

is the idea or concept of separation, of division, but alone it cannot I manifest in phenomena. Three is a wave, a sine curve, a ...

But once there is movement and then momentum, penetration can start. When effort becomes effortless, asana is at its highest lev ...

and light on your canvas. It is through the ability to do this that you can also avoid pain and heal diseases whether they are a ...

tolerance in body and mind so that we can bear the stress and strain more easily. In other words, the effort and its unavoidable ...

body does not understand how to do the asana, which is the case in the beginning. In the correct posture, pain does not come. To ...

The goal is not to hold at any cost an asana that is painful or to try to achieve it prematurely. This is how I hurt myself as a ...

same time to bear the physical pain without aggravating it. Without certain stress, the true asana is not experienced, and the m ...

Many intellectually developed people are still emotionally imma­ ture. If they have to face pains, they try to escape from them. ...

In my life I count among my greatest blessings my early ill health, poverty, lack of education, and the harshness of my guru. Wi ...

Arjuna follows the path of dharma, of the science of religious duty, and so reconciles what is on the human and material level, ...

"I'm really too tired for all this trouble." A practitioner must focus between the mind and the body, listening to the counsel o ...

remain simply theoretical. The test of a philosophy is whether it is ap­ plicable and even more so applicable now in how you liv ...

your mind and intelligence move deeper toward the inner body, bringing the mind closer to the Self-the core of being. The moment ...

has mastered an asana, it becomes uninteresting. That is why you can see many people mechanically doing the same thing over and ...

If there is an end, then there is no God. Creation by God never ends, so creation of your movements never ceases. The moment you ...

mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improve­ ment. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with sup ...