बद्न्हकारणशैथिल्यात् प्रचारसंवेदनाच्च चित्तस्य परशरीरावेश
bandhakāraṇaśaithilyātpracārasaṃvedanācca cittasya paraśarīrāveśaḥ
- bandha = bondage, attachment
- karana = cause
- shaithilyat = relaxation, letting go, loosening
- prachara = passages, means of going forth, moving through
- samvedanat = by knowledge of
- cha = and
- chittasya = of the consciousness of the mind-field
- para = another, other
- sharira = body
- aveshah = entering into
When the ties that bind you to your body loosen, your perception is free to roam and your mind can enter into other people’s bodies.
Bandha (बन्ध) refers to “bondage” (caused by misinterpreting the Ātman—one’s own self), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītāh (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[…] For liberation know yourself as consisting of consciousness, the witness of these [five elements]. […] The cause of your bondage (bandha) is that you see the witness as something other than this [ayameva hi te bandho draṣṭāraṃ paśyasītaram]. […] You are really unbound and actionless, self-illuminating and spotless already. The cause of your bondage (bandha) is that you are still resorting to stilling the mind [ayameva hi te bandhaḥ samādhimanutiṣṭhasi]. All of this is really filled by you and strung out in you, for what you consist of is pure awareness – so don’t be small minded. […]”.
Bandha (“bondage”) is considered as a product of one’s imagination—kalpana: “[…] The body, heaven and hell, bondage (bandha) and liberation, and fear too [śarīraṃ svarganarakau bandhamokṣau bhayaṃ tathā], All this is pure imagination. What is there left to do for me whose very nature is consciousness? […]”
Bandha (or Bandhana) is caused due to to “the mind being tangled in one of the senses”:—“Bondage (bandha) is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something. Liberation is when the mind does not long for anything, grieve about anything, reject anything, or hold on to anything, and is not pleased about anything or displeased about anything. Bondage (bandha) is when the mind is tangled in one of the senses [tadā bandho yadā cittaṃ saktaṃ kāsvapi dṛṣṭiṣu], and liberation is when the mind is not tangled in any of the senses. When there is no ‘me’ that is liberation, and when there is ‘me’ there is bondage (bandhana). Considering this earnestly, do not hold on and do not reject”.
https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html
Patanjali's yoga sutras 
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