The answer to the above question is: far from it. In my view, a Yogi is one who dedicates his energy and time with the single purpose of escaping the mortal life to merge into the eternal super-conscious state (Brahman) from where he never returns.  To achieve his goal, he dedicates his mortal life to austerities (Sadhana) that enables him to attain Samadhi, a state of eternal peace and joy.

Based on Sankhya philosophy, our existence is based on two essential components, Purusha and Prakriti. Prakriti is divided into Buddhi (intelligence), Ahankara (ego), Manas (mind).  Chitta is the storehouse of all the fluctuations of mind (vritis – known as Samskaras).

Purusha is the action-less observer that is ever pure and the indestructible source of life. It is also known as Consciousness (Atman) the Self.

As humans we cannot exist without the metaphysical aspects of Prakriti that sustains the Purusha. When we die, all aspects of Prakriti stop functioning leaving the body dead. Atman that is no longer sustained escapes towards Superconciousness (Brahman). But it cannot reach its destination until all the samskaras accumulated in the previous life are burnt by yogic actions in another birth. The Yogi strives to replace the rajasic (karmic action) and tamasic (lethargic action) samskaras with sattvic (pure) actions and thought. The yogi can shorten the period to one lifetime with intense Sadhana. By doing so, he is liberated and becomes a part of the Super-conscious (Brahman).

As ordinary beings we can only aspire to be a Yogi, but most of us are unable to break loose from samsaric maya (worldly illusions) and remain bound to the life and death cycles.

As humans we suffer because of running after pseudo pleasure that we think is going to bring happiness.  The desire to achieve such pleasure is primarily due to the kleshas (impediments), which are ignorance, attachment, ego, aversion and clinging to life. These are blocks in the spiritual path. To be a yogi one has to overcome these kleshas by sadhana (austere practice).

Even though most of us are not successful Yogis, it helps to pursue the path to the best of our ability. It may be that we will succeed in the next life, depending on how much good deed we did in this life. It is said one can take many life cycles to be liberated from the mortal life cycles.