1.
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
'Breathe in and the Divine approaches you. Keep your breath held, and the Divine will stay with you. Breathe out and you come closer to the Almighty. Keep your exhale suspended, and yield to Divinity.'
2.
Teach what is inside you.
Not as it applies to you, to yourself,
but as it applies to the other.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Impart what is within you. Not from your perspective, but from that of others.
3.
Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
"Cultivate your inhalations, find ecstasy inside yourself, meditate on the supreme within you."
4.
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Purge your frame of its taints, communicate honestly and pleasantly, foster amity for humanity, and with meekness seek riches and education.
5.
Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
6.
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
7.
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
8.
No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.
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9.
Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
10.
Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
11.
Regulate the breath, be happy, link the mind with the Lord in your heart.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
12.
Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
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Meditation results in marvels.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
14.
Let your speech be true and sweet.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya