WHAT HAPPENS AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT? SAME AS AFTER GRADUATION FROM SCHOOL.
Life is dreaming. Death is the end of the dream-life. Death is the movement into the Eternal and Unchanging. Life is the experience of the Temporal and Changeable. All spun on the web of the Illusion of Time.
Yoga practice helps one experience these truths. Yoga also shortens one’s experience as a separate being from God. The more one can experience the truth that time is an illusion, the closer to God one is. Yoga shortens not one’s life, but the need for more time in life in which to learn the truth. After all, who would want to stay on as a student when one is totally finished school? There is no more need to waste more time in school if you learned it all. Likewise once you realize your oneness with God then there is no more need to be in the school of life.
Enlightenment is the graduation so to speak from the school of life, having shortened one’s years in academia by deliberate learning. Then one has the option to stay in life-school as a learned teacher. Newly graduated scholars who feel compassion for the uneducated students may stay a time only to teach and/or maintain reasonable conditions somewhere in the school campus where serious students can come to learn.
Teaching is the only thing worthwhile doing if one decides to stay on earth after the experience of enlightenment.
Otherwise, one is free to go explore the universe, or just go back to Paradise if one is tired of incarnation altogether.