The mind itself is saṃsāra; outside the mind there is nothing

A verse Patañjali could have signed: saṃsāra is not a place, not an era, not a succession of lives. It is mind in motion — projecting, grasping, rejecting, remembering, anticipating. Where mind quiets, saṃsāra vanishes — not because the world disappears, but because it ceases to be experienced as suffering. The implication is radical: you do not need to change the world to be free. You need to understand what is constructing it.