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Salvation

Salvation refers to liberation or redemption across spiritual traditions. Many traditions converge on the idea of seeking a higher state of being. They diverge in the means and understanding of achieving this state.

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The Lord is near those who call upon Him in truth, and who ask Him for the things that are truly important, such as salvation.
St. John of the Cross
ChristianScriptureTruthGod
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 348
Bhakti is the path to salvation. Souls achieve salvation through God's grace.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingAttainmentDevotee
All About Hinduism, p. 151
The natural bliss of the soul is revealed when it achieves salvation.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingAttainmentSoul
All About Hinduism, p. 150
The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
Swami Sivananda
HinduScriptureAttainmentLiberation
Practice of Karma Yoga, p. 29
For even those born of sinful wombs — women, Vaiśyas, and Śūdras — taking refuge in Me, they too reach the highest destination.
Krishna
HinduTeachingDevotionEqualitySanskrit
Bhagavad Gita 9.32
The person who accurately knows the names of the unmanifest, the qualities, and their pure operations, is well-versed in the truth about all distinctions, freed from the body, liberated from all qualities, and enjoys absolute happiness.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingDifferencesHappinessSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5560
Upon realizing the Atman, which is soundless, intangible, formless, imperishable, tasteless, eternal, and odorless, and realizing that which has no beginning or end, beyond the great and unchanging, one is liberated from the cycle of death.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingLiberationOnenessSanskrit
The Upanishads, p. 12
Why do you seek outside what is inside you - salvation?
Boethius
ChristianPoetryPurposeVision
Meister Eckhart Sermons, p. 23
One gets liberated either due to their karma or with the help of saints
Guru Nanak
SikhScriptureHelpfulnessKarmaPunjabi
Japji Sahib (Gurmukhi and English), p. 19
Falling into demoniac wombs birth after birth, these deluded souls — never attaining Me, O son of Kunti — sink to the lowest state.
Krishna
HinduTeachingDelusionRebirthSanskrit
Bhagavad Gita 16.20
There is a work for the human race, a divine purpose in its creation that exceeds the salvation of the individual soul, because the universal is just as real, or even more real, than the individual
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingDifferencesPurpose
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 172
Through the dissolution of the ego and detachment from birth, the soul is able to transcend death and is liberated from all limitations of duality.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingEgoLiberation
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 70
Even those who are liberated though embodied and are absorbed in Brahma hear the narrative of Lord Hari, interrupting their meditation. Truly, theirs must be a heart of stone, who take no delight in the stories of Lord Hari.
Tulsidas
HinduTeachingHappinessLiberationSanskrit
Ramcharitmanas — Uttar Kand Part 1 (verses 949–1022), p. 50
Only those will be saved who come to God with a pure heart.
Al-Ghazali
SufiScriptureCleansing HeartsEmotionsArabic
Alchemy of Happiness (Al-Ghazali — scripture edition), p. 16
Abandoning all actions, whether good or bad, that arise from qualities, and casting off both truth and falsehood, a being, without a doubt, becomes liberated.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingLiberationRenunciationSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5578
I am the eternal one without equal, whom no creature can kill or destroy. For this reason, O prince, turn your desires towards virtue, so that you may attain salvation through this means.
Kama
HinduTeachingAttainmentChange of HeartSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5492
Therefore, wise men who understand this, subdue their desires. The yogi who is in communion with the Supreme Spirit knows that yoga is the perfect path to salvation, due to the practices of his many past lives.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingKnowledgeLustSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5491
Vasudeva said, "Oh scion of Bharata's race, salvation is not attained by renouncing external things, but only by giving up things that cater to the flesh (body)."
Vasudeva
HinduTeachingAttainmentSacrificeSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5491
You have become pale and lean by seeing righteous people living a domestic life, unrighteous people living in the forest, and liberated people attached to domesticity and fixed homes
Vyasa
HinduTeachingLiberationRighteousnessSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5313
The one who plants trees is saved in the afterlife by those trees, just like children save their father.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingOnenessRighteousnessSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5089