Day 128

The desire to cling to life is inherent both in the ignorant and in the learned. This is because the mind retains impressions of the death experience from many previous incarnations.

- Yoga Sutras

….In the Judeo-Christian context, life is a one-shot deal. Within a Hindu context, though, this life is just another episode in a very long series of lives. The extent to which this has been true for the average practitioner of yoga over the ages cannot be overemphasized.