October 23, 2009
- Yoga Master BKS Iyengar on Sewing -
“It is said, ‘the camel can’t pass through the eye of the needle.” The needle is the consciousness, the eye of the needle is intelligence, and the thread that you pass through the eye of the needle is the mind. If the mind, the thread, is rough, can you push it through the needle? What do you do? You sharpen it. So you have to sharpen the mind, for the thread to pass through the eye of the needle. And the moment the tip of the thread passes through, do you think of the thread? You only knit with the needle because the thread is moving the needle.”
- B. K. S. Iyengar, from an interview in Parabola Magazine.
