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The Yoga of Nonseparation: Addressing Yoga’s Deeper Dimension of Freedom and Wholeness
Author:
Ian Whicher
Series:
Sanctum Studies in Indian Intellectual, Cultural, and Historical Traditions
Binding:
Paperback
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The Yoga of Nonseparation: Addressing Yoga’s Deeper Dimension of Freedom and Wholeness
offers a sustained reconsideration of the meaning of liberation in Patañjali’s Yoga.Ian Whicher challenges interpretations of classical Yoga that understand its ultimate goal primarily as withdrawal from life, suppression of the mind, or the radical separation of consciousness from embodied existence. Drawing on the philosophical psychology of the
Yoga-Sūtra
, he explores
nirodha
not as the shutting down of mental activity, but as the liberation of the mind from the misidentifications that bind consciousness to a separate sense of self.From this perspective,
kaivalya
need not imply disengagement from embodied existence. Rather, freedom opens the possibility of a fuller integration of consciousness, mind, embodiment, and action. Whicher examines the implications of this understanding for discernment, moral integrity, engagement with the world, and the place of
citta
and the
guṇas
within the transformative process of Yoga.Rooted in sustained scholarship while addressing questions of continuing philosophical and existential significance, the book presents Yoga not as an escape from life, but as a transformation of how life is understood and lived.
About the Author
Ian Whicher
Ian Whicher is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He specialises in the Yoga tradition and Indian teachings on spiritual liberation and is a long-time practitioner of meditation. He is the author of
The Integrity of the Yoga Darśana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga
and
Essays on the Yoga-Sutra: Engaging the World in Freedom
, as well as numerous scholarly articles. He received his PhD in Religious Studies (Hinduism) from the University of Cambridge. His research on freedom and the principle of intelligence (
buddhi
) in Yoga has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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