We just got the word about the death of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois at the age of 94. Jois founded Ashtanga yoga, and was a major force in bringing yoga to the West. His teacher, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya transmitted an ancient lineage of yoga teachings through Jois.
This is no doubt a sad day for Guruji's many devoted students throughout the world. Here is the smallest sampling of his vast, loving widom:
"Do your practice and all is coming."
"If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self."
(To keep up to date, here is the Twitter feed of people talking about the death of Pattabhi Jois.)
Have you ever studied Ashtanga yoga?
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As a fitness professional, i have to say that i will miss you and many others will say the same!
Daniel, while your knowledge may be very vast, your compassion does not seem very yoga like. Be kind grasshopper. Open to grace.
KAREN:
im just here to inform lost souls. not to hurt the people who think its real yoga. Im sorry if i hurt your kind of yoga. people must wake up from this illusion of yoga,...
Karen if i am yoga compassion which means not to hurt others ,,, i mean not to inform them will hurt more if they waste a lifetime to this kind of yoga. it is said by all the great enlightened one that you must gain spirituality in this lifetime , that what you gain in this lifetime you will take with you to the next life. so if i sound harsh its not my meaning. if i can help some people to understand this but hurt 50 its still worth it. and if you get hurt means you are not spiritual at all.
So im doing this to help people. dont take it the other way around.
Daniel is a dick!
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