“I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.” ThinkingHumansHuman BeingsJourneyShareTaughtPrayingBirthLessonsBlessingApproachYogaRewardsFollowingInwardDomainBirth And DeathNever Stop LearningGreat RewardUseful Life Author:B.K.S. Iyengar
“If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.” IfsHumansLooksKindDifferentHuman BeingsYogaEternityAll KindsDifferent ThingsBhakti Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.” ThinkingWayWantHumansHappensAbleDesireHuman BeingsYogaIntentionWork OutAversion Author:Frederick Lenz
“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.” IfsMindHumansMayMomentsMightHappensNextHuman BeingsSpaceWorryClearMeditationImpossibleHappenedEventsCapableYogaCarefulInstantConsiderationPresent Moment Author:H. E Davey
“I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.” HumansI CanIdeasUseValuesHuman BeingsYogaAstronomyRejectsWrestlingMud Author:Brian Eno
“Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.” HumansHuman BeingsLove IsYogaConnectionsUnionsLiving Things Author:Christy Turlington
“One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLoveGivingHumansWisdomJoySpiritHuman BeingsMeditationOne ThingYogaTransformationChanging The WorldWellnessConferencesLectures Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have been no growth. It had to come to the centre where it had both the things in proper proportions to grow. In the same way a human being has to work out that you keep a moderation and a balance and understand not to go to extremes of anything. That balance you learn when you love someone.” WayLoveHumansHas BeensWisdomEarthSpiritMotherGrowsGrowthHuman BeingsSunMeditationColdBalanceMoonYogaHotWork OutExtremesProportionWellnessCentreModerationLove SomeoneMother EarthWhen You Love SomeoneSupposing Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.” PeopleLoveBelieveHumansMayStatesFeelingsWisdomPoliticalSpiritSocialNaturalHuman BeingsExistenceMeditationEconomicChildhoodYogaDirectInnocentWellnessAlmightyTime PassesExistence Of God Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through inner transformation. This has to be the last breakthrough of our evolution, which is a living process.” LoveHumansStatesWisdomLastsSpiritProcessRealizingHuman BeingsMeditationAwarenessEvolutionHigherYogaTransformationWellnessTransformedBreakthrough Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The most difficult part is to convince a human being that in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being; that he is capable of becoming a glorious personality, a beautiful, peaceful angel.” LoveHumansWisdomBeautifulSpiritDifficultHuman BeingsMeditationCreationPersonalityBecomingCapableYogaAngelPeacefulGloriousWellnessConvince Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“But the quality of human beings is only one - and that is how much they love and forgive.” LoveHumansWisdomSpiritHuman BeingsQualityMeditationYogaForgivingWellness Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.” IfsLoveFirstsHumansWholeWisdomSpiritualSpiritEnjoyHuman BeingsMeditationDesignEmotionalMaterialsYogaFundamentalsWellnessSpiritual LifeEmotional LifeBasic Things Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside.” LoveHumansWisdomBodyBeautifulSpiritHuman BeingsClearMeditationYogaCleanWellnessTemplesEnlightened Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“When the Kundalini rises, automatically you develop your own balances and that balanced life manifests outside. Now this ecological problem can be solved as soon as human beings get transformed and develop their balances. Because we are imbalanced, that's why the nature has gone into imbalance.” LoveHumansProblemWisdomSpiritHuman BeingsGoneMeditationBalanceYogaWellnessTransformedBalancedEcologicalImbalanceBalanced Life Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.” LoveHumansWisdomSpiritFoundHuman BeingsMeditationSolutionsYogaTransformationWellnessCollectivesLasting Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.” LoveHumansSelfWisdomRealityAgeSpiritHuman BeingsMeditationYogaDiscoveryTransformationRevolutionaryWellnessRealisationSelf Realisation Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.” PeopleLoveBelieveHumansKindWisdomSpiritualSpiritGrowthHuman BeingsMeditationAchieveYogaUniversalWellnessEnlightenedSpiritual GrowthConceptionSahaja Yoga Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.” MenHumansRealPhilosophyUseBodyHuman BeingsTeachEvolutionDegreesConsciousYogaInstrumentsImmortalReal Men Author:Vishnudevananda Saraswati
“This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.” HumansAgeHuman BeingsTechnologyMeditationStageYogaBlindScience And TechnologyBlind Faith Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda - Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga - upon the earth.” WorldHumansEarthSpiritualHumanityHeavenChristHuman BeingsPracticeConditionsEffectsObjectsDivineYogaTransformationAimWork OutKingdomsLiberationKingdom Of HeavenSpiritual TransformationDivine NatureDivine LifeNature And Life Author:Sri Aurobindo