Indra Devi Quote

Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated the spark and brilliance are also gone.

Indra Devi

Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated the spark and brilliance are also gone.

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About Indra Devi

Eugenie Peterson (Latvian: Eiženija Pētersone, Russian: Евгения Васильевна Петерсон; 22 May, 1899 – 25 April 2002), known as Indra Devi, was a pioneering teacher of yoga as exercise, and an early disciple of the "father of modern yoga", Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.
She went to India in her twenties, becoming a film star there and acquiring the stage name Indra Devi. She was the first woman to study under the yoga guru Krishnamacharya at the Mysore Palace, alongside B.K.S Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois who went on to become yoga gurus. Moving to China, she taught the first yoga classes in that country at Madame Chiang Kai-shek's house.
Her popularization of yoga in America through her many celebrity pupils in Hollywood, and her books advocating yoga for stress relief, earned her the nickname "first lady of yoga". Her biographer, Michelle Goldberg, wrote that Devi "planted the seeds for the yoga boom of the 1990s".