The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies v3.c19.s11.53

v3.c19.s11.53

*Laghuvākyavṛtti* (attributed to Śaṃkara) 19, 345 lamp, analogy of 95, 199-200, 248, 334, 498 language 8, 357-58. *See also meaning, śabda* acquisition or learning of 48, 57-58, 360, 362, 399-400, 435, 443, 592. *See also vyutpatti* as communication 58, 361, 398, 400-1, 417, 437, 593 philosophy of language 46-61 *Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra* 607 *laya* (dissolution) 110, 415, 432, 478 *layayoga* 560 leech 25, 510 length of life (*āyus*) 28-30, 32, 34 liberation (*mokṣa, mukti, niḥśreyasa*). *See also kaivalya* and *Brahmaloka*. *See Brahmaloka* and *karma*. *See karma* and *saṃnyāsa*. *See saṃnyāsa* as eternal pleasure. *See bliss* as removal of *avidyā* 36, 39-40, 43, 125-26, 288 backsliding from 35, 42, 145-46, 153, 176, 359, 406 definition, nature of 32-38, 180, 205, 335, 338, 352, 405, 422, 489, 546 desire for liberation (*mumukṣutva*) 36, 122, 176, 218, 221, 320, 337, 339-40, 429, 452 eligibility for. *See adhikāra* eternal, beginningless and endless 39, 125-26, 177, 195, 202, 206, 306, 405, 421-22, 595 four ways of obtaining liberation 537-38, 546 in *Bhedābhedavāda* 49, 51, 476-77 in deep sleep. *See suṣupti* in *Mīmāṃsā* 32, 47, 476 in *Nyāya* 355-56, 595 in the womb 28-29, 277. *See also Vāmadeva* is Brahman 421-22, 490, 493 is or requires Self-knowledge. *See Self-knowledge* means of achieving. *See paths* not an effect 32-33, 97, 196, 203, 238, 242, 286, 288, 371, 388-89, 405-7, 421-22, 427, 464 occasioned by hearing a *mahāvākya* 54, 247 possibility of 167, 169, 238-39, 315, 337, 422, 424, 470, 535 progressive (*kramamukti*) 27, 406, 581 properties of liberated one 37, 94, 180 role of action in. *See act, karmakāṇḍa, Self-knowledge, injunction* role of meditation in. *See upāsanā* science of (*mokṣaśāstra*) 148 while living. *See jīvanmukti* life (*jīvana*) 29-32, 189 length of. *See length of life* light (*prakāśa*) 24, 138, 287, 311, 354, 358, 552, 554. *See also fire* lightning 25-26 limitation model (*avacchedavāda*) 599. *See also pot-space* *lin* (optative) 48, 401-2, 404, 442 *liṅga*, a kind of exegetical evidence 430 *liṅga=hetu*. *See hetu* *liṅga*. *See body, subtle* locomotion, organ of 22 *lokasaṃgraha* (world-order) 37 Lokāyata. *See Cārvāka* love (*prema*) 35-37, 351, 466 lust 337 lying 396, 398 lie-detection test 267