Isolation (Kaivalya)

Kaivalya means 'aloneness' or 'isolation,' and it is the specific name the Yoga and Sāṃkhya schools give to liberation. On their view, bondage is the pure self's entanglement with matter and its mental products; freedom is the self standing utterly alone, no longer mistaking itself for the body or mind. It is not union with God or with an absolute, but the witness-self resting in its own pure nature.