Iyengar notes:
‘Yoga is a universal subject. As the physics and chemistry cannot change for Westerners or Easterners so also yoga cannot be changed. All the rules, regulations, principles remain the same for both. Still it is a subject to be dealt with individually according to their capacity of physical, mental, emotional, psychological, intellectual levels.
BKS Iyengar
This subject considers the experience of wholeness and not merely the absence of pain. We identify the vrttis and Klesa’s which disturb the citta as well as the causes of suffering.
Yoga therapy looks to establish equilibrium and inner balance.
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‘Life is full of pleasures, pains, tensions, stress and strain. Man is affected by his environment, social structure, competitions and never-ending struggles. He is also afflicted by his own anxieties, worries, desires, lust, anger, greed, aversion, hatred and temptations.
Modern living has changed a simple life into a complex one and affected the consciousness which has lost its simplicity and originality. This is how life is getting too complicated, mixed, fabricated, soiled, scattered and all-pointed. All these afflictions are included in ‘disease’.
Iyengar BKS, YogaRahasya Vol A. Yogic therapy. P.160
