In Indian religions, Moksha (Sanskrit: मोक्ष mokṣa) or Mukti (Sanskrit: मुक्ति), literally "release" (both from a root muc "to let loose, let go"), is the liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth or reincarnation and all of the suffering and limitation of worldly existence after the realization that the Atman is in fact Paramatman . Its meaning is similar to that of Nirvana in Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism.