Sālokya
Sālokya · sa-loka-ya, “being in the same loka”
Grammar: neuter noun, the abstract noun from saloka (sa, the same, and loka, world): “sameness of world”.
Meaning: a kind of mukti: living in the same loka as Śrī Hari. It is named with sāmīpya (nearness), sārūpya (likeness of form), sārshṭi (equal powers) and sāyujya (union).
In the scriptures: the Bhāgavata Purāṇa names sālokya as a mukti that the pure bhaktas refuse.
Refused by the bhaktas. Kapila tells his mother Devahūti that the nirguṇa bhaktas delight only in his service and will not take sālokya, sārshṭi, sāmīpya, sārūpya or sāyujya even if they are given (Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 3, Chapter 29). Śrī Hari tells Durvāsā that his bhaktas, content with his service, do not desire even sālokya, sāmīpya, sārūpya and sāyujya, still less svarga, which time devours (Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 9, Chapter 4).
In the Bhavishya Purāṇa: the Pratisarga Parva tells that sālokya moksha is born of tapas (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 7).
In the Brahma Purāṇa: in the glory of Purushottama-kshetra, Brahmā tells the munis that those who, on rising from bed, remember the lotus-eyed Hari, Balarāma and Subhadrā attain sālokya with Hari, living in the same world as he (Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 177).
Vyāsa tells the munis of the departure of Śrī Kṛshṇa. After the hunter Jara had gone to svarga by his prasāda, Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa joined the ātmā with the Ātmā, beyond the reach of the mind, immeasurable, spotless, free of birth, old age and death, the self of all, in the form of Vāsudeva. He left the human body and attained the threefold gati, the supreme mukti that has the form of sālokya, sārūpya and sāyujya (Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 211).
Related terms: Mukti · Sāmīpya · Sārūpya · Sāyujya · Bhakti
Sources
- Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 3, Chapter 29; Skandha 9, Chapter 4
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 7
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 177, 211