The aim of dharmadownloads is to honour the commitment and dedication to the continuing interest in the teachings of
T Krishnamacharya as received from his students, especially his son TKV Desikachar. The appreciation of how much these eminent teachers and all their students have contributed to Yoga teaching is reflected in the depth and breadth of the practice, study and teaching of all those who have had the opportunity to study with them or their students.

"Teach what is inside you. Not as it applies to you, to yourself, but as it applies to the other."
- T Krishnamacharya

The objective of dharmadownloads is to offer support in the form of a practical opensource facility. It is for anybody interested in the aim wishing to freely and easily access or contribute resources to support Yoga study and practice, either as a complement to existing work with a teacher or, accepting that this is not always possible, as another route meanwhile.

TKV Desikachar once described dharma as having three aspects:
“Dharma is that which supports you. Dharma is that which stops you from falling.
Dharma is that which enables you to pick yourself up after falling.”

It is with this bhavana or feeling for the dharma within the wider global Yoga community that these resources are offered as a support in the spirit of community rather than competition. As TKV Desikachar expressed it in a talk given at the Omega institute in May 2002 around the theme ‘The Ocean of Yoga - From the Parts to the Whole’:
"The current world of Yoga seems to be made up of many small parts, each one competing with and often confusing the other. This is not consistent with the spirit of yoga, whose very meaning is ‘to unite‘.“

This statement offers a reminder that Yoga invites us to link. The aim of dharmadownloads hopefully reflects a view of ways all Yoga students, as if a global Yoga Community, can link in Spirit and Action within and without our immediate circles.