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)
The purification of the inner disposition must be performed by a mendicant especially, because it is the cause of the arising of knowledge, and for the attainment of independence.
in the texts
Paramārthasāra
Release from the bondage of transmigration, redefined non-spatially as the splitting of the knot of ignorance.
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).
{{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]?
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.
"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].
] From the surge of knowledge and from cessation [of attachment] comes the destruction of merit and demerit;
] Liberation (mokṣa) is threefold.
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana
Final spiritual release/liberation, the ultimate goal distinguished from mere heavenly rebirth, pursued through internal merit and austerities.
Their goal was *mokṣa*, release into the supreme world-sphere, But their external merit bound them, causing them to return.
The yogi destroys memory and thought, for they are the barrier to *mokṣa*.
If a human child is wise, Fortunate, of good signs, and becomes a monk, And holds always to serving the Lord God, He will easily find the perfect release.
Vrhaspatitattva
Liberation from rebirth, the highest soteriological goal, attained through pure sattva or correct knowledge.
When the activity commanded by the Lord is finished, then the holy Ananta attains *mokṣa* (liberation).
> The extremely *sāttvika citta*, stainless and internally supreme, > made of the nature of space, is pledged to all *mokṣa*.
If the *citta* is *sāttvika*, that is the cause of the *ātmā* attaining *mokṣa*, because it is stainless.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The disciplined practice of posture, breath, and meditative concentration aimed at liberation from the body and attainment of immortality/independence.
The purification of the inner disposition must be performed by a mendicant especially, because it is the cause of the arising of knowledge, and for the attainment of independence.
Having completely restrained the group of senses, and having abandoned attachment and aversion, and having given up fear of all beings, a twice-born becomes immortal.
When yoga is perfected, one who leaves the body is fit for immortality.