jivanmukta means A person who, in the Advaita philosophy of Hinduism, has attained nirvikalpa samadhi — the realization of the Self, Parasiva — and is liberated from rebirth while living in a human body. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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JIVANMUKTA — [Noun] In Advaita Vedanta, one who, while yet alive, has achieved liberation (moksha) from the cycle of rebirth and the illusion of individual selfhood. Borrowed from Sanskrit जीवन्मुक्त (jīvanmukta), from जीवन् (jīvan, "living, life") + मुक्त (mukta, "liberated, freed"). Unlike the videhamukta, who must wait for the body's dissolution for final release, or the sannyasin, who pursues liberation through ascetic renunciation, the jivanmukta is the end itself—liberation wearing skin and bone. It is the embodied paradox of a wave knowing itself to be the ocean: a body that functions without craving, a mind that perceives the world's tumult from a shore of perfect stillness, a presence in the marketplace as serene as a stone at the bottom of a river. The freedom is not from life, but within it, a quiet proof that the cage was never locked.
noun
- A person who, in the Advaita philosophy of Hinduism, has attained nirvikalpa samadhi — the realization of the Self, Parasiva — and is liberated from rebirth while living in a human body.
- A liberated being (not necessarily paramukta).