title: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
author:  B.K.S. Iyengar 
description: If this book is to lay any claim to authenticity, it must make one point clear above all others. It is this: By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom. Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus lie in the hearts of all. They are not film stars, mere idols of adulation. They are great inspirational figures whose example is there to be followed. They act as our role models today. Just as they reached Self-Realization, so may we.<br /> <br /> Many of you may worry that you are unable to meet the challenges that lie ahead. I want to assure you that you can. I am a man who started from nowhere; I was heavily disadvantaged in many ways. After much time and effort, I began to reach somewhere. I literally emerged from darkness to light, from mortal sickness to health, from crude ignorance to immersion in the ocean of knowledge by one means alone, namely by zealous persistence in the art and science of yoga practice (sadhana). What held good for me will hold good for you too. Today you also have the benefit of many gifted yoga teachers. <br /> <br /> When I began yoga, there was, I am sorry to say, no wise, kind teacher to lead me. In fact my own Guru refused to answer any of my innocent inquiries on yoga. He did not instruct me as I do my students, offering them step-by-step guidance in an asana. He would simply demand a posture and leave it to me or his other students to figure out how it could be realized. Perhaps that stimulated some stubborn aspect of my nature, which allied to unshakable faith in the subject of yoga made me burn to go on. I am ardent and passionate, and maybe I needed to show the world that I was not worthless. But far more than that, I wanted to find out who I was. I wanted to understand this mysterious and marvelous "yoga," which could reveal to us our innermost secrets, as equally as it revealed those of the universe around us and our place in it as joyful, suffering, puzzled human beings.
zlib_text: becoming unshak eab le
  wisdom learned on the 
  journey to inner freedom
  patti montella
  
  COPYRIGHT ©  2 019 PATTI MONTELLA
  All rights reserved.
  BECOMING UNSHAKEABLE
  Wisdom L earned On The Journey To Inner F reedom
  ISBN
  978-1-5445-0431-5 Hardcover
  978-1-5445-0430-8 Paperback
  978-1-5445-042 9-2  E book
  C over design by Marissa Rogers
  Book design by John van der Woude
  
  For my beloved Gurudev
  
  contents
  Close a Window; Open a Door
  The Foundation Is Laid
  When the Student Is Ready, the Master Appears
  Catapulted out of the Comfort Z one
  Ancient Love
  Obstacles on the Path of Yoga
  The Land of Saints and Sages
  Exotic India
  Tick Tock, It’s Time
  From Jet Set Life to Ashram Life
  All Kinds of Assorted Nuts
  Amsterdam
  You Lost Your Seat for a Bag of Chips
  The Ultimate Relationship
  The Wealth of Faith
  From Luxury to Laundry
  Austin or Boston:  Learning to Trust
  The Sky Is Falling, the Sky Is Falling!
  What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
  We Don’t Believe in Miracles; We Count on Them
  Sacred Rituals and 