“The ‘thought of becoming’ is the persistent desire to experience sense objects…. This desire, if not transcended in life, persists even after passing from the physical body.”

– Reverend Jaganath Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras

“…one may feel a state of bodilessness and of merging in the root nature.”

– BKS Iyengar, Core of the Yoga Sutras

“Even after the soul leaves the body and the body dissolves back into the natural elements that it was made of, the accumulated impressions adhere to the soul and set the conditions for its next birth.”

– Devadatta Kali, Managing The Mind

“There will be some persons who are born in the state of Yoga. They need not practice to discipline themselves. …indeed, some may succumb to worldly influences and lose their superior qualities.”

– T.K.V. Desikachar, The Heart of Yoga

“You go to a certain point and get into a higher abode and control nature, but still the seeds of desires and attachments are there. You are not completely liberated, so you come back again….”

– Sri Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali