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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 ...
Moksha (мокшень кяль, mokšəń käĺ, pronounced ['mɔkʃənʲ kælʲ]) is a Mordvinic language of the Uralic family, spoken by Mokshas, with around 130,000 native speakers in 2010. Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia . [ 5 ]
Moksha is derived from the root muc* (Sanskrit: मुच्) which means free, let go, release, liberate; Moksha means "liberation, freedom, emancipation of the soul". [ 67 ] [ 68 ] In the Vedas and early Upanishads, the word mucyate ( Sanskrit : मुच्यते ) [ 67 ] appears, which means to be set free or release – such as of a ...
Nirvana is used synonymously with moksha (Sanskrit), also vimoksha, or vimutti (Pali), "release, deliverance from suffering". [35] [web 8] [note 5] In the Pali-canon two kinds of vimutti are discerned: [web 8] Ceto-vimutti, freedom of mind; it is the qualified freedom from suffering, attained through the practice of dhyane (meditation, samādhi ...
The Mokshas (also Mokshans, Moksha people; Moksha: Мокшет/Mokšet) comprise a Mordvinian ethnic group belonging to the Volgaic branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples. [6] They live in Russia, mostly near the Volga and Moksha rivers, [7] a tributary of the Oka River.
Sanskrit moksha or Prakrit mokkha refers to the liberation or salvation of a soul from saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death. It is a blissful state of existence of a soul, attained after the destruction of all karmic bonds .
Moksha – signifies emancipation, liberation or release. [25] In some schools of Hinduism, moksha connotes freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth, in other schools moksha connotes freedom, self-knowledge, self-realization and liberation in this life. [26] [27]
Moksha Records, an English electronic music record company; Moksha (river), Russia; moksha (with lower-case "m", also called "Jehannum"), a character in Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever; Moksha, a fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's Island; Moksha, the computer desktop environment of Bodhi Linux