Liberation

ŚaṅkaraAdvaita Vedānta

Interpretation

The eternal, unconditioned nature of the Self as it always already is, revealed rather than newly produced: the cessation of Nescience alone, not the effect of any action or accumulated merit, not embodied, not subject to gradation, and not the result of a process of becoming. Liberation is not different in kind from Brahman itself: release is nothing but being Brahman.

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Where Śaṅkara’s commentary grounds this interpretation. Open a sūtra to read the commentary context.