moksha
See also: Moksha
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa, “liberation”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒkʃə/, /ˈməʊkʃə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmoʊkʃə/
Noun edit
moksha (uncountable)
- In Indian philosophy and theology, the final liberation 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.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 5:
- The more merit you earn, the more you are likely to abridge the number of reincarnations you have to go through to reach the kind of enlightened state which gets you to moksha.
- 2017 August 9, James Temperton, “'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'. The story of Oppenheimer's infamous quote”, in Wired UK[1], →ISSN:
- It is one of the four key lessons of the Bhagavad-Gita: desire or lust; wealth; the desire for righteousness or dharma; and the final state of total liberation, or moksha.
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moksha m (uncountable)
- Moksha (language)
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moksha m (uncountable)
- Moksha (language)
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moksha m (uncountable)
- Moksha (language)