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The people now coming to him for classes were far less fit and accomplished than were the people who had generally enrolled to study at Krishnamacharya’s Yogashala. In June 1961 he gave his first ‘official’class, but still in a private home. India’s situation was greatly exacerbated by the fact that most of its doctors were in active service with the British Army.

He also wields the sudarshana chakra which is created from the energies of the trinity of deities, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. Harthan therefore took the manuscript back to the UK with her to correct the numerous errors she had made. Iyengar was not developing much of a love for yoga. It was still difficult to make a living, particularly because he was sometimes forced to cancel classes at the last moment when it turned out that one or another of the locations he was slated to use was suddenly unavailable because of some more important engagement.

But since she had in the mean time contracted the ’flu, her new arrival was weak and sickly, and few held out much hope for his survival. He instead suggested that Iyengar should remain in Mysore. The depth and profundity of the real subject he addressed—the human mind and spirit—remained evident, but he nevertheless devoted increasing attention to those topics as his life as an author progressed.

In 1954 he agreed to start a regular weekend class in the Bullabhai Desai Memorial Hall in that city even though it meant a six-hour train ride there, and then another six-hour one back in order to honour the commitment.

Iyengar introduced yoga to the West with the help of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. He was famous for his charity concerts in support of causes that interested him. Iyengar was not only a master teacher but also a prolific writer. But while he was passing through his painful and difficult childhood, an extremely accomplished man named Tirumalai Krishnamacharya was busy educating himself widely and deeply in yoga and the Indian philosophies.

Krishnamacharya studied in Varanasi, Nepal and several other places, including seven years in Tibet.

And when standard everyday objects would not suffice, Iyengar proceeded to invent his own.

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"A Biography of BKS Iyengar, Written by Kofia Busia, Yoga Teacher," http://www.kofibusia.com/level_1/BKSIyengarBiography.html (October 24, 2006). Iyengar redefined yoga for the modern world.

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In the mornings, he taught a few musicians. The most they could get from him was a grudging agreement—out of respect for his Guru—to at least meet her. She and her husband King Albert I had together steered Belgium through the disasters of the First World War. Her husband’s heroic resistance leading the Belgian Army against superior German forces had given the French enough time to stage what became known as ‘the Miracle of the Marne’.

As usual, Keshavamurthy was to be the star attraction.

BKS Iyengar’s new life was set firmly on its new path when, early one morning, Keshavamurthy simply disappeared off the face of the earth and could not be found anywhere. Yoga teachers from every quarter tried to contact the violin wunderkind to offer him their guidance.