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Jīvanmukti

Liberation while living: the state of one who has realized the truth and lives on in the body, free.

Also: Jivanmukti, jivanmukta

Vedānta and the Hindu traditions

Jīvanmukti is the doctrine, central to Advaita Vedānta and the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, that liberation can be attained in this life. The jīvanmukta, the one liberated while living, continues to act until the karma that produced the present body is exhausted, but is no longer bound by it, remaining steady in pleasure and pain. At death such a one attains disembodied liberation.