B.K.S. Iyengar on Yoga

"Yoga makes us live in the present. 

 The present is the only state that gives us real happiness and joy."

-B.K.S. Iyengar, in conversation with His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Namaste.

Pamela Nelson

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Past and Future

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.

- Sri Nisargadtta Maharaj

Namaste.

Pamela Nelson

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Virya - Vigour

In Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar defines virya as vigour, strength, virility and enthusiasm.  He writes that virya, this "unflagging enthusiasm", is needed to "remove the obstacle of laziness".  Virya helps to promote hope and courage to continue on the path of yoga and "overcome the inertia of the body and the mind."

Yoga is a discipline and should not be practiced in a convenient way, but in a way that every muscle, nerve, and gland in the body is exercised.  B.K.S. says that when we do not use the asanas as a bridge to unite the body with the mind and the mind with the soul then we are merely doing bhogasanas, or asanas of pleasure.

With the official start to spring just days away, let this help renew your enthusiasm to your yoga sadhana (practice).

Namate.
Pamela Nelson
www.plnyoga.vpweb.com

Love

Love is what we were born with.

Fear is what we learned here.

-Marianne Williamson

Namaste.

Pamela Nelson

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Questions

All the questions we

are asking are born out

of the answers that

we already have.

-J. Krishnamurti

Namaste.

Pamela Nelson

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Namaste.

Pamela Nelson