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Isolation (Kaivalya)

Liberation as 'aloneness': the pure self standing free of matter entirely.

Kaivalya means 'aloneness' or 'isolation,' and it is the specific name the Yoga and Sāṃkhya schools give to liberation. On their view, bondage is the pure self's entanglement with matter and its mental products; freedom is the self standing utterly alone, no longer mistaking itself for the body or mind. It is not union with God or with an absolute, but the witness-self resting in its own pure nature.

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  1. Yoga-sūtra
    Kāśī (Varanasi) · 375
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Key passages(13)

Yoga-sūtra · Patañjali

Very high

Paramārthasāra · Abhinavagupta

Very high

Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

Very high

Yoga-sūtra · Patañjali

Very high

Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

Very high

Aṣṭāvakra-gītā · Aṣṭāvakra

High

Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)

High

Śiva-sūtra · Vasugupta

High

Aṣṭāvakra-gītā · Aṣṭāvakra

High

Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitā · (attributed to Gheraṇḍa)

High

Gītārtha-saṃgraha · Yāmunācārya (Ālavandār)

High

Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitā · (attributed to Gheraṇḍa)

High

Stotraratna · Yāmunācārya (Ālavandār)

Moderate