World renowned yoga exponent B.K.S. Iyengar
passes away
World renowned yoga
exponent B.K.S. Iyengar passed away at a private hospital in Pune on 20.08.2014.
He was 95.
Born Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar in Karnataka’s
Kolar district in 1918 and debilitated by illnesses since his childhood, he
codified Patanjali’s yoga sutras in an innovatively dynamic yoga style which
came to be known as Iyengar Yoga, winning millions of followers in more than 70
countries of the globe in the process.
He set
forth its principles in Light on Yoga (1966), which has since been regarded as
the bible of yoga. The book has been translated into 19 languages and has sold
more than three million copies.
Mr.
Iyengar was honoured with Padma Shri in 1991, the Padma Bhushan in 2002 and the
Padma Vibhushan in 2014 in recognition of his services to spreading knowledge
of Indian culture and tradition globally.
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