The Encyclopedia of World Religions

484 S yoga

Further reading: Elizabeth De Michelis, A History of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Western Esotericism (New York: Continuum, 2004); Ian Whicher and David Carpenter, eds., Yoga: The Indian Tradition (New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003); The Yoga-sutra of Patañjali: A New Translation with Commentary, Chip Hartranft, trans. (Boston: Shambhala, 2003).

teachers liberated beings go into meditative states as a lesson to their students. In some views, what we take as death may simply be a prolonged lesson in breath-control—a lesson in liberation that lasts an eternity. In any case, the bodies of the jivan muktas are buried, and their tombs become places of PILGRIMAGE .