Mukti or moksa

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> Is there any difference between mukti and moksa?

 

Srila Prabhupada makes no difference. See SB 8.4.13p., 8.12.6p., CC

1.7.144p., CC 2.19.17p., TLK 14.32, etc. He even says: "Moksa means mukti."

(SB 1.8.48 -- Los Angeles, May 10, 1973; SB 7.6.1 -- Vrndavana, December 2,

1975). There are, however, differences within mukti/moksa.

 

MMW Dictionary:

 

mukti -

Ë f. setting or becoming free , release , liberation , deliverance from

(comp.) ¼Br. &c , &c.

Ë final liberation or emancipation , final beatitude (= mok»a , see q.v.)

K‚v. Kath‚s.

Ë abandonment , putting off , giving up (comp.) ib.

Ë throwing , casting , hurling , shooting , sending Hariv.

Ë discharge (of a debt

Ë cf. ž²a-mÇ)

Ë N. of a divine being (the wife of Satya) Cat.

 

moksa -

Ë m. (ifc. f. ‚) emancipation , liberation , release from (abl. , rarely

gen. or comp.) MBh. K‚v. &c.

Ë release from worldly existence or transmigration , final or eternal

emancipation Up. Mn. MBh. &c. (IW. 39)

Ë death L.

Ë N. of partic. sacred hymns conducive to final emancipation Y‚j´.

Ë (in astron.) the liberation of an eclipsed or occulted planet , the last

contact or separation of the eclipsed and eclipsing bodies , end of an

eclipse S˜ryas. VarBžS.

Ë falling off or down Kum. VarBžS. (cf. garbha-)

Ë effusion VarBžS.

Ë setting free , deliverance (of a prisoner) Gaut.

Ë loosing , untying (hair) Megh.

Ë settling (a question) Kath‚s.

Ë acquittance of an obligation , discharge of a debt (cf. ri²a-)

Ë shedding or causing to flow (tears , blood &c.) , M‚rkP. Su½r.

Ë casting , shooting , hurling MBh. K‚v. Pur.

Ë strewing , scattering Kum. Kath‚s.

Ë utterance (of a curse) R.

Ë relinquishment , abandonment Kath‚s.

Ë N. of the Divine mountain Meru L.

Ë Schrebera Swietenioides L.

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

Your servant, bh. Jan

 

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