yoga“Means, method, work.” Although in earlier parts of the “Maha·bharata” yoga can refer to the practice of asceticism, in the Moksadharma it refers to the “method” or “work” of inner meditation, dhyana. The basic spiritual practice referred to in the Moksadharma, and so a general practice of the renunciant schools of early Brahminism. In later times a “Yoga” school of philosophy emerged based on the Yogasutras of Patanjali, although the dualistic understanding of this work differs from the nondualistic yoga passages of the Moksadharma.

moksa“Liberation,” i.e. release or spiritual salvation. The basic concept of liberation in the Moksadharma is that a person escapes from reincarnation through realising his true nature (the atman). The liberated condition that such a person achieves after death is the unmanifest state of brahman.