kaivalya
कैवल्य kaivalya'Isolation'; in the Yoga and Samkhya systems, liberation understood as the disentangling of pure consciousness (purusha) from matter (prakriti).
Where this term appears
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
The final aphorism of the text, Yoga Sutras 4.34, names the destination: kaivalya .
- What is Moksha? Essentials
Kaivalya , meaning aloneness or isolation, belongs especially to the Yoga and Jaina traditions and describes liberation as the consciousness standing utterly alone.
- What is Yoga? Yoga
Patanjali calls liberation kaivalya , which means "isolation" or "aloneness." It is not union with a god.
- What Are the Six Darshanas? Philosophy
The goal has different names in different schools, moksha , kaivalya , apavarga , nihsreyasa , the highest good, but it is recognisably one goal: liberation, the end of bondage and of the suffering that bondage…
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
The third, the Vibhuti Pada , is on the powers that arise along the way. The fourth, the Kaivalya Pada , is on liberation, the end.
- What is Samkhya? Philosophy
Samkhya calls its liberation kaivalya , a word that means aloneness or isolation, and the name tells you everything about how this school understands release.
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
Liberation, called kaivalya , "aloneness" or "isolation", is the undoing of that error: consciousness recovering its own nature, standing free and self-luminous, no longer mistaking the show for the seer.
- Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi: The Inner Three Yoga
The goal: kaivalya What all of it aims at is named in the final line of the whole text.