Common misconception

Moksha is not a heavenly reward earned later; most schools say it is realizing what was always already true.

The question it leaves you holding

If liberation is freedom from all wanting, can you want it without defeating the very purpose?

Schools that center this concept

• Advaita Vedanta — Shankara's non-dualism: only Brahman is real; the individual self is that one Self, mistaking itself as many.
• Yoga — Patanjali's discipline: still the mind's movements and the Self rests in its own nature, free of nature's play.

Questions to explore

• Is moksha a state you reach, or a fact you wake up to?
• Do the schools agree on what is liberated, and from what?