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Mokṣa

Liberation: in the Indian traditions, release from the cycle of birth and death and from suffering.

Also: Moksha, mukti, liberation

Vedānta and the Hindu traditions

Mokṣa is the highest goal of human life in most Hindu traditions. It is freedom from saṃsāra, the round of rebirth driven by karma and ignorance. The schools describe it differently: for Advaita, the realization that the self is Brahman; for the theistic schools, eternal communion with the Lord; for Sāṃkhya and Yoga, the isolation of pure consciousness from matter.