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Yoga Is Not a Wedding: Why Patanjali's Yoga Sutras Aim at Separation, Not Union

Yoga Is Not a Wedding: Why Patanjali's Yoga Sutras Aim at Separation, Not Union

Perlman, Zachary A.

Paperback

Hinduism

ISBN13: 9798245797212
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

For centuries, yoga has been described as a path of union-union with the divine, with the cosmos, or with one's true self. Studio language, devotional reinterpretations, and modern nonduality have all reinforced this assumption.

This book argues that this story is wrong.

Drawing directly from the Yoga Sūtras, Yoga Is Not a Wedding makes a careful but uncompromising case that Patañjali's yoga is not a doctrine of mystical union at all, but a disciplined path of disentanglement. Its culmination is kaivalya: the autonomy of consciousness, freed from identification with nature, mind, and experience.

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