Why Moksha is Not “Salvation”?
One of the central problems within Indian tradition that scholars grapple with is moksha, often translated as “spiritual liberation” or “salvation”. Yet to translate moksha as “salvation” is a category mistake: it imports an alien conceptual framework and ultimately results in the loss of understanding of a distinct tradition with its own knowledge quest. Why is translating moksha as salvation a category mistake? Let us probe more into this question by looking at the concept…