Avoid refrigerated, processed, artificially colored, canned and chemically preserved foods as far as you can. They increases ama or toxic undigested matter in the physiology, tax the body's agni or digestive fire, lack vitality and do not stimulate
You have to be strong. Nobody can survive if you go on accepting suggestions from the world. Many of the times, people fakely say, ‘You are a wonderful man.’ They don’t want to displease you but they don’t mean that you are a good man.
During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you
Yoga, as it was understood by its sages, is designed to satisfy all these human needs in a comprehensive, seamless whole.
These three instructions, plus meditation, contain the only rule of life that any disciple needs: detachment; realization of God as the Giver; and unruffled patience.
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."
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom. I literally emerged from darkness to light, from mortal sickness to health, from crude ignorance to immersion
The saint who uncovers the secret of creation will be in harmony with its countless bewildering expressions. All men may approach that understanding who curb the inner passion for destruction
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence
Nevertheless you were not fully with me. Your objection forces me to remark that in your mental background you were creating three institutions. One was a sylvan retreat on a plain, another on a hilltop, a third by the ocean
