ABSTRACT
The interpretation of Patañjali’s Yoga Dar¬ana presented in this essay – which walks the line between a historical and hermeneutic-praxis (some might say theological or “systematic”) orientation – counters the radically dualistic, isolationistic, and ontologically oriented interpretations of yoga1
presented by many scholars and suggests an open-ended, epistemologically oriented hermeneutic which, I maintain, is more appropriate for arriving at a genuine assessment of Patañjali’s system.
