mokṣa
idea · 5 works · 5 mentions · 16 anchored passages
liberation · immortality · release · the pure abode · the supreme world-sphere · the threefold liberation · yoga · yogic perfection
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1 expressionyoga and liberation“mokṣa”1 mention
Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Sanskrit)
When yoga is perfected, one who leaves the body is fit for immortality.
in the texts
Paramārthasāra
Release from the bondage of transmigration, redefined non-spatially as the splitting of the knot of ignorance.
{{mokṣa|release, redefined here non-spatially}} has no abode whatever, nor any going-away to some other place.
From that bondage — a dense thicket of the darkness of delusion — how is its release ({{mokṣa|release, the cutting of the knot of ignorance}}) [to come]?
I ask, O Blessed One, the question of crossing the ocean of {{mokṣa|release, here defined as cutting the knot of ignorance}}-bound transmigration (saṃsāra).
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Liberation classified into three kinds: by the surge of knowledge, by cessation of passion, and by total destruction of merit and demerit, culminating in kaivalya.
] Liberation (mokṣa) is threefold.
] From the surge of knowledge and from cessation [of attachment] comes the destruction of merit and demerit;
"The first liberation is by knowledge, the second by the utter destruction of passion, and the third by the total destruction [of merit and demerit].
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana
Final spiritual release/liberation, the ultimate goal distinguished from mere heavenly rebirth, pursued through internal merit and austerities.
they do not find *mokṣa*, the pure abode.
Thus the *mokṣa* you seek will be successfully attained.
He returned to his austerities, and his end will be *mokṣa*.
Vrhaspatitattva
Liberation from rebirth, the highest soteriological goal, attained through pure sattva or correct knowledge.
> Having attained the state of *mokṣa*, he does not enter existence again.
When the activity commanded by the Lord is finished, then the holy Ananta attains *mokṣa* (liberation).
One who is possessed of *samyagjñāna* is truly superior, for they attain *mokṣa* and are not born again.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The disciplined practice of posture, breath, and meditative concentration aimed at liberation from the body and attainment of immortality/independence.
When yoga is perfected, one who leaves the body is fit for immortality.
Invisibility, memory, beauty, clairvoyance, and clairaudience, as well as leaving one's own body and entering another's, // Yj_3.
having completely restrained the host of senses, on a seat neither too low nor too high, he should begin the control of the breath, for two or even three cycles.