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Daily Inspiration Quote by Indra Devi

"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness"

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“Freedom” is doing heavy lifting here: not a flag-waving abstraction, but a private jailbreak from the emotions that quietly run your schedule. Indra Devi frames yoga less as fitness or performance and more as an exit route from the modern condition - fear as background noise, anguish as chronic tension, loneliness as the unspoken tax of living in your own head. The line works because it promises liberation without melodrama. No instant enlightenment, no guru theatrics. Just “constant practice,” a phrase that sounds almost boring, and that’s the point: the miracle is incremental.

As a celebrity figure who helped popularize yoga beyond India, Devi is also selling a cultural translation. She strips yoga of intimidating esoterica and repackages it as a technology of self-regulation: repeatable, accessible, practical. That makes the claim feel democratic - anyone can do this - while quietly elevating yoga into a moral and psychological toolkit. The subtext is that the real enemy isn’t the world; it’s the inner weather that the world triggers.

There’s also a subtle rebuke to Western hustle culture embedded in her wording. Freedom isn’t earned by conquering more; it’s practiced by loosening the grip of what conquers you. In an era when loneliness is increasingly discussed as a public-health issue and anxiety is treated like a default setting, Devi’s pitch lands as both soothing and shrewd: not “escape your life,” but train your nervous system until life stops feeling like a trap.

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Devi, Indra. (2026, January 15). Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yoga-is-a-way-to-freedom-by-its-constant-practice-163000/

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Devi, Indra. "Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yoga-is-a-way-to-freedom-by-its-constant-practice-163000/.

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"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yoga-is-a-way-to-freedom-by-its-constant-practice-163000/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Indra Devi (May 12, 1899 - April 25, 2002) was a Celebrity from Latvia.

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