mumukshu
मुमुक्षु mumukṣuOne who longs for liberation (moksha); in Kashi, especially the seeker who comes to the city to ripen toward a good death or to awaken to liberation while still living.
Where this term appears
- The good death Treatise
And it has a word for the person who does it in the right spirit: the mumukshu , "one who desires liberation", from mumuksha , the longing for release that the tradition regards as the necessary first step of t…
- The saw of liberation Treatise
The mumukshu who spends his last years learning to let go, and the desperate soul who tries to force the crossing, are moving in opposite directions, and the tradition, in the end, knew it.