mokshan.
/ˈməʊkʃə/, U.S. /ˈmoʊkʃə/ In various religious and philosophical systems originating in India: the final release of the soul from a cycle of incarnation; the bliss attained by this liberation; = mukti n. Cf. nirvana n. 1.
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1785 C. Wilkins tr. Bhăgvăt-Gēētā xvi. 115 The divine destiny is for Mōksh, or eternal absorption in the divine nature.
1828 H. H. Wilson in Asiatic Researches 16 104 An important consequence of this doctrine is the denial of Moksha, in its more generally received sense, that of absorption into the universal spirit.
1875 M. Williams Indian Wisdom vii. 131 There are three ‘gems’ which together effect the soul's Moksha..right intuition..right knowledge..right conduct.
1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 772/1 Mokṣa as the supreme aspiration runs through that best known portion of the Mahābhārata epic called the Bhagavad-Gītā.
1933 J. Baillie And Life Everlasting (1934) v. 118 In the concurrent tendency to regard nirvana—or moksha..as a state not of utter annihilation but of (unconscious) blissful union with the divine, we may surely find a foreshadowing..of a positive doctrine of eternal life.
1962 A. Huxley Island ix. 136 Murugan calls it dope... We, on the contrary, give the stuff good names—the moksha-medicine, the reality-revealer, the truth-and-beauty pill.
1996 T. N. Murari Steps from Paradise 416 Srinivasin and Vishnu were in ecstasy as they could both now die happily, attain their moksha for having come to the sacred city.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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