This article was published in the journal Tarka. It includes some excerpts from my book, The Truth of Yoga. The theme of the issue is death, and I explore its connections to yoga philosophy – from transcending the mind and the body to attaining liberation. Here's how it starts: "Death plays a pivotal role in the history of yoga—the original objective of practice was ending rebirth…” While practices have changed in the intervening centuries, one constant remains: “Whatever the framework behind liberation, it depends on reappraising the meaning of death.”