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==Laya==
According to both Buddha and Shankara liberation means laya of the individual in some transcendent Permanence that is not individualise.
The impulse towards laya is a creation of the mind, it is not the sole possible destiny of the soul. When the mind tries to abolish its own Ignorance, it finds no escape from it except laya, because it supposes that there is no higher principle of cosmic existence beyond itself—beyond itself is only the pure Spirit, the absolute impersonal Divine. Those who go through the heart (love, bhakti) do not accept laya, they believe in a state beyond of eternal companionship with the Divine or dwelling in the Divine without laya. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-adwaita-of-shankaracharya#p28,p29</ref>
==Liberation==