Notes: The path of union properly begins with withdrawal from the pursuit of self-centered desires. In here, the term saṁnyāsa, commonly rendered as "full renunciation", has two imports. One meaning of nyāsa is "resigning" or "laying aside", and another is "assigning" or "depositing". The text hints at the real and complete meaning as "total reassignment", the deposition of every aspect of the fractured individual into a realm of integration and union. In the upcycling and repurposing of our being, we reach for a state of living and integral liberation — beyond a mere resignation from the complexity of existence.