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Liberation (Mokṣa)
Final freedom from the wheel of rebirth — but freedom into what?
Mokṣa is liberation — the final freedom from the wheel of birth, death, and rebirth that the Hindu schools take to be the supreme aim of human life. What liberation is freedom into, however, differs widely: union or identity with the absolute, eternal loving communion with God, or the isolation of the pure witness-self. Every school of Hindu philosophy is, at bottom, a path and a theory aimed at mokṣa.
How it traveled
- Kaṭha UpaniṣadKuru-Pañcāla region · -500explains
- Bhagavad-gītāKuru-Pañcāla region · -150explains
- UpadeśasāhasrīKālaḍi (Kaladi) · 710explains
- ParamārthasāraŚrīnagara (Srinagar), Kashmir · 1000redefines
- VivekacūḍāmaṇiŚṛṅgeri (Sringeri) · 1400explains
- Aṣṭāvakra-gītāKāśī (Varanasi) · 1450explains
- Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitāKāśī (Varanasi) · 1700explains
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 6↗explains
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 69↗explains
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 4,4.7↗explains
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 4,5.3↗challenges
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