Light on Yoga - an excerpt

" Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal,

the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

Twice blessed is he who knows true love and can love all God's creatures.

He who works selflessly for the welfare of others with love in his heart is thrice blessed.

But the man who combines within his mortal frame knowledge, love and selfless service is holy and becomes a place of pilgrimage, like the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Saraswati and Jamuna.

Those who meet him become calm and purified."


B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga.