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Quotes About Moksha

Those that say the kali yuga is an age of evil forget that this wonderful age is the yuga when moksha is nearest. I say to you, Bhakti, this is the most wonderful of all the ages of men!
~ Ramesh Menon
In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.
~ Sarada Devi
The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize 'Who am I?
~ Dada Bhagwan
The Hindu views life as the opportunity to fulfill karmic obligations (dharma), indulge the ego with worldly power (artha), gratify the senses with worldly pleasure (kama), and discover the spirit (moksha). He can either react to samsara or simply witness it. The former fetters, the latter liberates.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The Buddha spoke of nirvana, which means oblivion of individual identity, but Krishna speaks of brahma-nirvana as an expansion of the mind (brahmana) that leads to liberation (moksha) while ironically also enabling union (yoga), indicating a shift away from monastic isolationism. That
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Realization occurs only when samsara is witnessed, not reacted to. This is moksha.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.
~ Dada Bhagwan
What is it that doesn't allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!
~ Dada Bhagwan
Where the 'charging' (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation).
~ Dada Bhagwan
Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.
~ Sadhguru
Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).
~ Dada Bhagwan
When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life.
~ Dada Bhagwan
What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!
~ Dada Bhagwan
The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.
~ Dada Bhagwan
If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is 'relative'. And "All these relatives are temporary adjustments".
~ Dada Bhagwan
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
~ Swami Sivananda
Moksha is defined as the steady glow of the Self in perfection.
~ Sri Ramanananda
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
~ Ramana Maharshi
These are what people really want, and they want them infinitely. To state the full truth, then, we must say that what people really would like to have is infinite being, infinite knowledge, and infinite bliss. Moksha is the release from the finitude that restricts us from the limitless being, consciousness, and bliss we desire.
~ Huston Smith
This "vision" of the Self is described in the Upanishads as Liberation (moksha). It is a freedom, a release, from doubt, from uncertainty, from the fears attending ignorance, forever. All questions are answered; all desires and causes for sorrow are put to rest; for thereafter, a man knows the secret of all existence. All previous notions of limitation and mortality, all darkness of ignorance, is swept away in the all-illuminating light of Truth:
~ Swami Abhayananda
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
~ Swami Sivananda