Wildcroft & Sojková/Yoga Studies in Five Minutes, 39. Does a Yogi Need to be Part of a Lineage?

If every student has a teacher, or every disciple has a guru, then logically every student is part of a lineage of teachers, at least in theory. In practice, the relationship between student and teacher can be much more complex. The truth of a practitioner’s claims to lineage is less interesting than the uses to which such claims are put.