Muktata, Muktatā: 5 definitions
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Muktata means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Muktatā (मुक्तता) refers to “liberation” (which is of no concern to a Yogī), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[...] There is no delusion, world, meditation on That, or liberation (muktatā) [kva mohaḥ kva ca vā viśvaṃ kva taddhyānaṃ kva muktatā] for the pacified great soul. All these things are just the realm of imagination. He by whom all this is seen may well make out he doesn't exist, but what is the desireless one to do? Even in seeing he does not see. [...]”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Muktatā (मुक्तता).—[feminine] tva [neuter] emancipation, liberation.
Muktatā (मुक्तता):—[=mukta-tā] [from mukta > muc] f. emancipation, the being liberated from existence, [Mahābhārata; Aṣṭāvakra-saṃhitā]
Muktatā (मुक्तता):—(von mukta) adj. das Erlöstsein, Erlösung von allen weltlichen Banden [Mahābhārata 12, 12637.] [AṢṬĀV. 18, 14.]
Muktatā (मुक्तता):—f. und mutkatva n. das Erlöstsein , Erlösung von allen weltlichen Banden.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Luo, Da, Mukta, Ta.
Starts with: Muktatalabha.
Full-text: A de mu de jia, Jivanmuktata, Muktatalabha, Muktatva, Vimuktata, Labha, Shakta.
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Liberation in early Advaita Vedanta (by Aleksandar Uskokov)
4. The Vedāntic Prasaṅkhyāna < [Chapter 5 - The Doctrine of Prasaṅkhyāna]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 284 < [Marathi-Hindi-English, Volume 2]
Page 1119 < [Marathi-Hindi-English, Volume 2]
Page 110 < [Hindi-Marathi-English Volume 2]
Cidgaganacandrika (study) (by S. Mahalakshmi)
Verse 23 [The Naure of ever-liberated soul] < [Chapter 2 - Second Vimarśa]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 7 - The Stage of the Saint (Jīvan-mukta) < [Chapter XII - The Philosophy of the Yogavāsiṣṭha]
Yasastilaka and Indian culture (Study) (by Krishna Kanta Jandiqui)
2. Discussion of Buddhist doctrines < [Chapter 8 - Philosophical doctrines]
The Story of Suka in the Mahabharata and the Puranas < [Purana, Volume 7, Part 1 (1965)]