Absolutely! For Patanjali it means the opposite of union, disentangling the purusha from the prakriti. I find it fascinating that today many teachers of yoga read Patanjali through the nonrealistic lens of Advaita Vedanta. There are historical reasons for this (I explore some of them in by book The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita U Chicago Press 2021), of course, but philosophically it's a little vexing! Thanks for your good work.
Absolutely! For Patanjali it means the opposite of union, disentangling the purusha from the prakriti. I find it fascinating that today many teachers of yoga read Patanjali through the nonrealistic lens of Advaita Vedanta. There are historical reasons for this (I explore some of them in by book The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita U Chicago Press 2021), of course, but philosophically it's a little vexing! Thanks for your good work.
Thank you, Jeremy - well said! 🙌