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Because I want to make a good death.

— B. K. S. Iyengar

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Response to a question posed to him "Why do you practise yoga?", at the end of a lecture in Bristol, as quoted in "My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master" by Silvia Prescott, The Guardian (22 August 2014)

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