Yoga for beginners is a holistic practice that keeps the body fit, soothes the mind, and touches the spirit. Yoga has been around since ancient times but it has become even more popular in today’s fast-paced and stressful life. To the extent that this wholesome practice has even been acknowledged by the United Nations, which has made June 21st International Yoga Day!
Let’s gain a deeper understanding of yoga with these famous Yoga quotes by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. It will answer various questions right from ‘What is yoga?’ and ‘What are the benefits and scope of yoga?” to ‘How yoga can help your child’ and “How yoga can lead to a happy and peaceful life.”
Top Yoga Quotes by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
1. Yoga is a study of life – the body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. It’s a study of your inner faculties.
2. Joy is deep within us. Keeping the mind like a clean mirror, unfazed by impermanent events, is Yoga.
3. Yoga means union. Yoga unites our hearts, mind, body, and spirit. It unites us and the people around us.
4. Yoga is not just some exercise. It is much more - it expands your awareness, sharpens your intellect, and enhances your intuitive ability.
5. Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga, with its techniques, helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.
6. Yoga is a discipline that opens the door to inner freedom.
7. Every child has creativity in him/her that finds expression with meditation, yoga, and Sudarshan Kriya.
8. Caring, sharing, and responsibility are the characteristics that yoga simply nurtures inside of us. We all have this inside us but it needs nurturing. I would say yoga is one of the best tools to nurture an individual to take responsibility.
9. Work doesn’t tire as much as desires and attachments. A yogi works 100 percent without desires or attachments. This is Karma Yoga.
10. When the mind controls man, it is bhoga (bondage). But when man controls the mind, it is yoga.
11. The wave uniting with its depth is yoga.
12. We do yoga to make life more beautiful - to stop misery from entering our world.
13. In the East, they say suffering is avoidable and unnecessary. Life is bliss! Wisdom, yoga, and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
14. Yoga provides us tools and techniques to lead a stress-free and tension-free life.
15. Breath is nature’s biggest secret. It is linked to your emotions. With breathing exercises, you can control your emotions. This will let you have more say over your mind.
16. The wisdom of yoga transforms one from craving for freedom to the recognition of unboundedness; from limited ownership to oneness with the whole.
17. Nurture yourself with music, prayer, and silence. Meditation, pranayama, and yoga rejuvenate, and give depth and stability.
18. We all want happiness. Yoga is the way to attain that much-needed happiness factor in life.
19. The purpose of yoga is to put a smile on your face in spite of all the stresses, tensions and situations you go through in your day-to-day life.
20. Yoga is, undoubtedly, the best app that everyone must download in their life.
Practicing yoga helps develop the body and mind, yet it is not a substitute for medicine. It is essential to learn and practice yoga under the supervision of a trained yoga teacher. In case of any medical condition, practice yoga only after consulting your doctor and a Sri Sri Yoga teacher.
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Collated with inputs from Pramod Timsinaa, Faculty, Sri Sri School of Yoga
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