"Moksha is a concept that can be said to belong to practical philosophy. Moksha, therefore, designates an ideal to be actualized. Moksha is an ideal unlike some other ideals pertaining to things outside the self. Moksha is supposed to be the realization of the true nature of the self itself even if it be the case, as in Buddhism, that there is no true nature either of the self or of anything else."

"If the immortality of soul is not beyond doubt, the existence of moksha cannot logically be proved either."

"If we die, shall we cease to live? The widespread belief in the immortality of soul and therefore the belief in moksha are problematic for the philosopher."

"Moksha represents an ideal state of cognitive attainment."

"In most schools of Indian philosophy, the state moksha is conceived of in such a way that either there is no object left to be known, or if any object is allowed at all, no relationship of any kind, is permitted."

"Moksha is described as the positive state of absolute bliss, the state of absolute absence of pain, the state of neither pleasure nor pain, communion with God or the company of God, the realization of the true nature of the self, an experience obtainable even in our embodied state, obtainable only after our physical death, etc."

"According to Buddhist world view, Moksha consists in overcoming the causes of suffering and ultimately in freeing oneself from the process of rebirth. How to do it? This is to be done through meditative introspection and by following the eightfold path (marga) of ethics."

"The second concept of moksha is taken from Buddhism, one of the unorthodox systems."

"Before reaching this final means to moksha, the person wanting moksha has to fulfil a number of qualifications. The Vedantins in general admit this and they suggest a whole scheme of discipline, divided into karma-yoga and jnana-yoga."

"In its negative sense, moksha means moksha from bondage...this moksha from bondage is to be attained through knowledge."

"Moksha does not mean any actual change in the nature of the self, but it means a change in standpoint. In other words, moksha is not merely knowing brahman, rather, it is being brahman. This being brahman is moksha in its positive sense."

"According to the Mahabharata also jnana seems to be the only way to attain emancipation (moksha); knowledge alone is capable of cleansing us of all our sins."

"The Upanishadic conception of moksha consists in the removal of 'all fetters' which is avidyais and in the consequent awakening of the spirit to the true self which is non-different from brahman, The Absolute."

"The concept of moksha might have originated depending on how the humans tackled the problem of injustice and pessimism."

"The ancient man's fear of death and his way of tackling it might have given rise to the idea of moksha with the concept getting more and more refined down the centuries."

"Two hypotheses have been formulated to the concept of moksha: One is the fear of death that might have given rise to the concept of moksha and the other is the unjust state of affairs."

"The term is used in Hindu Scriptures to denote both the experience of partial liberation on the earth and the state of total liberation in the divine life."

"The word moksha does not occur in any of the Vedas though the base (root) MUC - is part of the vocabulary of the first Veda where it means 'to release, to let go'. But it occurs in the Brahmanas and is frequent in classical language."

"The term moksha primarily is in the description of purusharthas and is in classical as well as modem usage, and secondarily in a generic sense to denote all that is common to its variety of usages."

"To acknowledge a polar relation between self-effort and grace as a feature characteristic of Moksha enables the avoidance of the extremes of moral legalism and graceless moralism on the one side and amoral lawlessness and supra-ethical mysticism on the other. It is the affirmation of moral conscience but as having a more than moral foundation. Being precedes action in everything that is, including man, although in man as the bearer of freedom previous action determines present being. Moksha, therefore, phenomenologically at least understood strictly from the self restricted perspective of the striving seeker, is not exclusively God’s work utterly apart from man’s latent resources and endowment."