[ SANSKRIT TERM ]
मोक्ष· moksha
Liberation. The end of the cycle of being something.
MEANING
Moksha is the final aim — release from samsara, the cycle of birth-death-rebirth driven by ignorance and attachment. In the Gita, moksha is not a place you reach after death but a state of consciousness available while alive: jivanmukti, liberated while embodied. The Gita lays out three paths toward it — karma-yoga (action), jnana-yoga (knowledge), and bhakti-yoga (devotion) — and refuses to rank them. Each suits a different temperament. The shared destination is the dissolution of the small self into the larger awareness that was always its substrate.