When enough good karma is accumulated over many lifetimes, the jiva-atman is released from this eternal cycle of samsara and attains moksha. |
If the priest says, come, I will help you attain moksha, or liberation, many will not come. |
The four stages are what each human soul must pass through in many births to attain its final goal of moksha, freedom from rebirth. |
Within the tapestry of Indian thought, solitude is an extremely important path which has to be traversed for the attainment of moksha or nirvana. |
A major theme that emerges in the later sanatani tradition is that man, being born into samsara, has to work through samsara towards moksha. |
Like all the sects, its majority are devout families, headed by hundreds of orders of swamis and sadhus who follow the fiery, world-renouncing path to moksha. |