[Advaita-l] GunAtIta and jIvanmukta

[Ravi Kiran]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:30 PM, H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  Infact
> he concludes,  I quote
>
>
>
> << तदेवम् विमुक्तश्च विमुच्यते इत्यादिश्रुतयो
> जीवन्मक्तस्थितप्रज्ञभगवद्भक्तगुणातीतब्राह्मणातिवर्णाश्रमि
> प्रतिपादकस्मृतिवाक्यानि
> चजीवन्मुक्तिसद्भावे प्रमाणानीति स्थितम्।  >>
>
>
>
> << (tadevam vimuktashcha vimuchyate ityAdishrutayo
> jIvanmaktasthitapraj~nabhagavadbhaktaguNAtItabrAhma
> NAtivarNAshramipratipAdakasmRRitivAkyAni
> chajIvanmuktisadbhAve pramANAnIti sthitam|) >>
>
>
On this bhAshya says,

विमुक्तश्च सन्विमुच्यते ; पुनः शरीरं न गृह्णातीत्यर्थः

Though already liberated, he acquires final liberation means that he does
not acquire a body again.


The liberation is in the absolute sense and there can be no action (or
upAsana) after the rise of knowledge, to be liberated again


>
> (translation by Swami Harshananda and Dr Ramachandra Swamy) <<(In this way,
> through scriptural texts such as “the once liberated (from the dormant
> desires ) is liberated again”
>

and (through the) smriti texts demonstrating
> the jivanmukta,sthitaprajna,bhagavdbhakta, gunAtIta, brAhmana, and
> ativarnAshrami—it is conclusively proved that jivanmukti is a reality) >>.
>
>
>
> Regards
>