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Moksha (/ ˈ m oʊ k ʃ ə /; [1] Sanskrit: मोक्ष, mokṣa), also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti, [2] is a term in Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release. [3] In its soteriological and eschatological senses, it refers to freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of ...
The liberation from Saṃsāra developed as an ultimate goal and soteriological value in the Indian culture, and called by different terms such as nirvana, moksha, mukti and kaivalya. This basic scheme underlies Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, where "the ultimate aim is the timeless state of moksa , or, as the Buddhists first seem to have ...
The notion of dharma, karma, moksha are very important for both Hindus and Sikhs. Unlike the linear view of life, death, heaven or hell taken in Abrahamic religions, for Hindus and Sikhs believe in the concept of Saṃsāra, that is life, birth and death are repeated, for each soul, in a cycle until one reaches mukti or moksha. [90] [91]
Hanuman inquires about the different kinds of "liberation" (or mukti, hence the name of the Upanishad), to which Rama answers, "The only real type [of liberation] is Kaivalya." [9] The list of 108 Upanishads is introduced in verses 26-29: [9] But by what means does one attain the Kaivalya kind of Moksha?
Mukti (Devanagari: मुक्ति) is the concept of spiritual liberation (Moksha or Nirvana) in Indian religions, including jivan mukti, para mukti. Mukti may also refer to: Film
Carving of the Gajendra-Moksha exploit at the BAPS Hindu Mandir, Abu Dhabi. The tale of Gajendra is an integral theme in Vaishnavism and has great symbolic value: Gajendra is the man, the crocodile is sin, and the muddy water of the lake is Saṃsāra. The symbolic meaning of Gajendra moksha is that materialistic desires, ignorance, and sins ...
It is the isolation of purusha from prakṛti, and liberation from rebirth, i.e., moksha. Kaivalya-mukti is described in some Upanishads, such as the Muktika and Kaivalya Upanishads, as the most superior form of moksha, which can grant liberation both within this life (as in jīvanmukti), and after death (as in videhamukti). [1]
Videha mukti (Sanskrit: विदेहमुक्ति), "liberation after death," or literally 'liberation through release from the body', is a concept found in ...