Mokṣa · मोक्ष · release

Release from the round of rebirth — not a place you go but a recognition of what was always the case, which is why Advaita insists it is not attained but realised, the way you do not travel to the neck you have been searching for your necklace around. Set it beside the two goals already on this bench and the three-way is clean. Buddhism's nirvāṇa puts a fire out. Judaism's geulah redeems a world forward in time, collectively, with history as the medium and other people as the point. Mokṣa is neither extinction nor repair: it is waking up — and it is, in the classical framing, radically individual, which is the quietest and perhaps the largest parting of all from a tradition whose salvation arrives for everyone or not at all.