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Definition of "moksha" []

  • 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. (noun)

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