Mataji Indra Devi (1899 – 2002) was a renowned yoga teacher and was born as Eugenie Peterson in the erstwhile Soviet Union . This is a collection of quotes and teachings of Indra Devi.
A human being's full freedom is to find himself (i.e., be loyal to himself), with independence of judgment, thinking and being flexible and malleable in order to reach harmonization and mental peace. Freedom is living without chains. Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
A human being's full freedom is to find himself (i.e., be loyal to himself), with independence of judgment, thinking and being flexible and malleable in order to reach harmonization and mental peace. Freedom is living without chains. Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Yoga is an art and science of living. Yoga means union, in
all its significances and dimensions. Through a certain amount of physical and
mental disciplines we can learn how to stay healthy, alert, receptive and to
improve our perception of the external world in order to feel internally
harmonized, with a better life condition and spiritual balance.
It is very important to give light and love to everyone, because everyone needs affection. Let light, love and peace live today and always in our hearts. Let these words not just be words pouring out of our lips. Let light invade your whole being so that everyone may be able to love.
Movements in yoga are harmonious, slow, soft, plastic,
relaxed, always conscious, and require a permanent and active mental
participation. The whole work rests on the dialectic tension-relaxation. It's
important to stimulate, turn elastic, tonify, to make oneself conscious of
limbs, superficial and deep muscles, joints, and spine, achieving a gradual and
progressive limb decontraction, loosening and relaxation.
Nonviolence is one of the keys of yoga, and we should begin it by ourselves. Learning to recognize and respect our own peculiar rhythm and working on that base is essential.
You give love and light to everybody – those who love you,
those who harm you, those whom you know, those whom you don't know. It makes no
difference. You just give light and love.
Try this visualization: Look at the sky and at the stars. Choose
one, the one you like the most. You want that star to guide you, it's so
pretty! Looking at that star, you would like it to get down. Then you think on
really getting this star down as much as possible, going more and more down and
down, until you feel it on your chest, disappearing in your heart, and your
entire being fills with joy because this is the day in which a star got into
your heart and stayed to live there. Now you realize you need to change many
things in your daily life for it to stay there; otherwise, it will slowly go
away, leaving a huge empty space. Suddenly you feel so happy, knowing you've
got a light in your heart which can get bigger and bigger, shining through our
eyes, deeds, words and thoughts. We realize we'll never be alone anymore. We've
got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light—our
star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant. If it's the divine will, we
ask it to guide us to what we have divine and eternal in this life and in the
next one. And let the light in the heart carry us.