Guest guest Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 , " Manohar Mohan Narayan " <mmnarayan49> wrote: I have had the good fortune to learn under a great Master whose identity I am not at liberty to reveal. According to him MOKSHA is Liberation from the Cycle of Births and Deaths (what is known as the Samsaara Chakra) and MUKTI is Absolution or the Dissolution of the Individual Soul in Brahman, the Cosmic Soul. Hence I feel that people should exercise judicious care in using these terms. With Love, mmnarayan - Tony OClery Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:57 PM Semantics and Sanskrit Namaste,Wim et al, I find it non productive to argue about the meaning of Sanskrit expressions in English. They do not translate literally at all. So whether a person says they achieve moksha, or there is liberation or not liberation, because we are already liberated etc etc is all non productive. We all know roughly what Moksha means in English it means Liberation. In Sanskrit it means Moha Kshaya or 'destruction of illusion or work of Maya'. So technically one could argue to do this requires some achievement-------see what I mean?? I could go on with other translations of sankrit that convey different meanings etc but what it the point? If one talks of Moksha or Mukti, or Liberation or Freedom, or any other word that actually attempts to describe the indescibable or something that cannot me experienced even----what is the point. So lets not get into picking up on semantics, especially Sanskrit. Lets just take a person at face value and know what he means by Moksha etc, in our own state of prajna..........ONS..Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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