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Patricia Walden, his longtime student, in an interview in 2000
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We were just coming out of the ’60s change-your-consciousness thing, and many of us were in our heads, and wanting to meditate, and reach Samadhi, or enlightenment. He was, like, ‘Stand on your feet. Feel your feet.’ He was so practical. His famous quote was, ‘How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?’

— Patricia Walden

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We were just coming out of the ’60s change-your-consciousness thing, and many of us were in our heads, and wanting to meditate, and reach Samadhi, or enlightenment. He was, like, ‘Stand on your feet. Feel your feet.’ He was so practical. His famous quote was, ‘How can you know God if you don’t know your big toe?’" in the context of "Patricia Walden, his longtime student, in an interview in 2000" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "B. K. S. Iyengar" (Quotes about Iyengar, Obituary in The New York Times: "B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95" by Ellen Barry, The New York Times (20 August 2014) ) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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B. K. S. Iyengar

About B. K. S. Iyengar

B. K. S. Iyengar or Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar ( December 14, 1918 – August 20, 2014), was the founder of the style of yoga known as "Iyengar Yoga" and was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. He has written many books on yoga practice and philosophy including "Light on Yoga", "Light on Pranayama", and "Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali".