Salvation

CRITICAL: NEVER ಮೋಕ್ಷ or ಮುಕ್ತಿ (release from the rebirth cycle in mainstream Hindu usage) and NEVER ಐಕ್ಯ (aikya) — the culminating stage of the Lingayat/Veerashaiva shatsthala path, in which the devotee’s individual identity ultimately merges into and dissolves within Shiva. ರಕ್ಷಣೆ is deliverance given by a personal God to a person who remains a person in relationship with God, not an eventual dissolution of individual identity.