Best Association for a Yogi
For inSelf Yoga™ the best association is siddha perfected yogi in whose company one can get the techniques required to complete yoga practice. It is best if such a person used a physical body but if there is no such person, one should reach a siddha in the astral world.
If however one does not have keen psychic perception, reaching an astral siddha would be out of the question. The next best association would be to find an advanced student who reaches a siddha either physically or astrally.
Other types of association are mostly counterproductive to yoga practice. These are damaging to a lesser or greater degree. Their resultant influence never leads to yoga but only to earth-bound concerns and rationalizations which serve the social purpose in the material existence. Some students pray to get a siddha’s association hereafter but that hope is mostly hope and nothing else. If does not get that association while using the physical body, there is little reason to think that one will get it when the subtle form is deprived of its physical shelter at death.