Definitions

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  • noun In Indian religions, the final extrication of the soul or consciousness from samsara and the bringing to an end of all the suffering involved in being subject to the cycle of reincarnation.

Etymologies

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Sanskrit मोक्ष ("liberation").

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Examples

  • The word moksha means the "liberation from the cycle of existence samsara often identified with a state of knowledge in which the phenomenal world and its concerns are shut out in favour of a mystical identification with the ultimate, changeless ground of all things."

    There's not always a word for the thing you want to say. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Discovering who we are—the atma, and not these physical experiences we have been having—is one of the keys to what is called liberation or in Sanskrit moksha.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Discovering who we are—the atma, and not these physical experiences we have been having—is one of the keys to what is called liberation or in Sanskrit moksha.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Discovering who we are—the atma, and not these physical experiences we have been having—is one of the keys to what is called liberation or in Sanskrit moksha.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • And then in Buddhism, there is moksha, which is liberation from all those three concerns.

    Creative Coincidences: Cage On Cunningham 2009

  • The Upanishads use this word 52 times, but use the word moksha only twice.

    Tantric philosophy Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • He used the Sanskrit word moksha for enlightenment.

    Guernica Magazine 2009

  • Hinduism, for instance, admonishes its followers to seek "moksha," or liberation from egotism.

    Offerings Without an Altar 2009

  • There was a fruitless search for an illusory entity called 'moksha' (salvation).

    How Hinduism destroyed the Military - Part II 2010

  • One does not get "moksha," if he has not sung for him … It's like Jiwe Panjabi wich kehnde san, "Jinne Lahore nahi vekheya oh jammeya nai."

    unknown title 2009

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