moksha

See also: Moksha

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa, “liberation”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒkʃə/, /ˈməʊkʃə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊkʃə/

Noun

moksha (uncountable)

1. 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.

   Synonym: mukti

   Coordinate term: dharma

   • 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.

Translations

liberation — see also mukti

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解脫／解脱 (zh) (jiětuō)

• Hindi: मोक्ष (hi) (mokṣ)
• Pali:

  Devanagari: मोक्ष (mokṣa)

• Punjabi: ਮੋਕਸ਼ (mokaś)
• Russian: мо́кша (ru) f (mókša)
• Sanskrit: मोक्ष (sa) m (mokṣa)
• Vietnamese: giải thoát (vi) (解脫)

Italian

Noun

moksha m (uncountable)

1. Moksha (language)

Portuguese

Noun

moksha m (uncountable)

1. Moksha (language)

Spanish

Noun

moksha m (uncountable)

1. Moksha (language)