Origins
Moksha is the liberation from rebirth or samsara. This liberation can be attained while one is on earth (jivanmukti) or eschatologically (karmamukti). The idea of samsara originated with new religious movements in the first millennium BCE. These new movements saw human life as bondage to a repeated process of rebirth. This idea was incorporated into Buddhism and Jainism, and eventually also into Hinduism. By release from this cycle, the suffering involved in this cycle is also ended.
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