20/04/2023
“Patanjali, is considered the father of yoga. In reality as far as we know, he was a yogi and a polymath living around fifth century B.C. India, who collated and elaborated existing knowledge of the yogis’ life and practices.
He wrote the Yoga Sutras, literally 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. He wrote, ‘With this truth bearing light will begin a new life. Old unwanted impressions are discarded and we are protected from the damaging effects of new experiences.’ ( Yoga Sutras, Chapter 1, Verse 50)
“It is my hope that my own lowly beginnings and ordinariness may serve as a source of encouragement as you seek this truth and begin a new life. 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. I am so grateful for what yoga has made of my life that I have always sought to share it.”
“… with faith, love, persistence and perseverance you will savor the sweet flavour of yoga.”
“Carry the flame forward so that it may bring the blissful light of the knowledge of true reality to future generations.”
“Yoga was my Destiny and… it 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 never imagined before I set out. For me it has been a journey of discovery. In historical terms it has been one of rediscovery but undertaken from a unique perspective: ‘Innovation within traditional boundaries’.
BKS IYENGAR in
“Light on Life”