Kundalini Yoga Glossary
Liberation
Realizing one's true nature as Purusha, and entering right relationship with Prakriti.
Meaning
What Liberation Means
Liberation, or Moksha, means release: realizing that one is Purusha, pure consciousness, and entering into right relationship with Prakriti, primal nature, rather than remaining bound to it.
It's the subject of the Kaivalya Pada, the fourth and final chapter of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, translated as the nature of liberation, following chapters on absorption and higher states of awareness, discipline and practice, and the powers and capabilities of the possible human.
In Practice
How It’s Used
The mind is described as the link between body and spirit: its habits can keep a person tied to attachment, duality and ongoing suffering, or they can lead toward detachment and union with truth. Liberation is reached through the second path, working with the mind rather than being run by it.
Prakriti, primal matter, is in constant evolution and transformation. The work described for a yogi is to quiet the mind's constant dispersion in order to see clearly what is true and what isn't, moving toward the state the Kaivalya Pada describes.
