| They each believe in maya, and in the liberation of the soul from rebirth, called moksha, as the goal of human existence. |
| It is in the Mahabharata that we get the syncretic picture of lokasamgraha through the concepts of caturvarnashrama dharma and moksha. |
| A major theme that emerges in the later sanatani tradition is that man, being born into samsara, has to work through samsara towards moksha. |
| The four stages are what each human soul must pass through in many births to attain its final goal of moksha, freedom from rebirth. |
| The purport is that the pursuit of wealth and pleasure should be within the parameters of dharma and moksha. |
| Within the tapestry of Indian thought, solitude is an extremely important path which has to be traversed for the attainment of moksha or nirvana. |
