In Indian religions, Moksha (Sanskrit: ) or Mukti (Sanskrit: ), literally "release" (both from a root "to let loose, let go"),'s the liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth or reincarnation and all of the suffering and limitation of worldly existence. Origins It's highly probable that the concept of moksha was first developed in India by non-Aryan people outside of the caste system whose spiritual ideas greatly influenced later Indian religious thought. Buddhism and Jainism are… (More on Moksha)