“In the Yoga state we experience what is beyond the mind.”
– TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3

“Whatever perceives is always right,
it is the mind that colours what we see.”
– TKV Desikachar 1979 on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 4

“If there is not a strong link to that which is inside,
the stronger force becomes the outside,
and we are pulled by and to that.”
– TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 4

“In the second and third Sūtra the means to realise Samādhi
and the true nature of Jīva were explained.
The term used in those Sūtra is Draṣṭṛ
– that which perceives and aids in perception.”
– T Krishnamacharya’s commentary to Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 23

“What we observe is changing,
What we observe with is changing,
Where we observe from is unchanging.”
– Reflections on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 20

“Serve Yoga and Yoga will serve you.
tat-artha eva-dṛśyasya-ātmā
That purpose of the seen is indeed for our essence.”
Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 21

“The witness cannot be witnessed.”
– Reflections on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 18

“In each one of us there is something that experiences.”
– TKV Desikachar introducing the Taittirīya Upaniṣad 2001

“Āsana practice is the beginning that will confirm the importance of observation.
Through observation in Āsana practice we can learn a lot about ourselves
and even probably meet ‘that‘ which is observing inside us.”
– TKV Desikachar 1981

“Yoga is when the mind is completely absorbed in the great force within.”
– TKV Desikachar France August 1983