Moksha
![Two Hindu sadhus near Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Usually sadhus live by themselves, on the fringes of society, and spend their days in their pursuit of moksha.](/Images/godic/202501/28/Sadu_Kathmandu_Pashupatinath_2006_Luca_Galuzzi3621.jpg")
![Gajendra Moksha (pictured) is a symbolic tale in Vaishnavism. The elephant Gajendra enters a lake where a crocodile Huhu clutches his leg and becomes his suffering. Despite his pain, he constantly remembers God Vishnu. God liberates him. Gajendra symbolically represents man, Huhu represents sins and the lake is saṃsāra.](/Images/godic/202501/28/Gajendra_Moksha_print3621.jpg")
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![Mokṣa is a key concept in Yoga, where it is a state of “awakening”, liberation and freedom in this life.[49]](/Images/godic/202501/28/Silhouette_yoga3621.png")
In Hinduism and Hindu philosophy, moksha (Sanskrit:मोक्ष mokṣa), also called vimoksha, vimukti and mukti, means emancipation, liberation or release. In the soteriological and eschatological sense, it connotes freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth. In the epistemological and psychological sense, moksha connotes freedom, self-realization and self-knowledge.