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- Read on →: ato vai kavayo nityaṁ bhaktiṁ paramayā mudā
ato vai kavayo nityaṁ bhaktiṁ paramayā mudā |
vāsudeve bhagavati kurvanty ātma-prasādanīm ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.2.22)“Therefore, indeed with paramount delight, the wise always perform bhakti to Bhagavān, Vāsudeva, which is purifying of the self.”
- Read on →: jayati jayati nāmānanda-rūpaṁ murārer
jayati jayati nāmānanda-rūpaṁ murārer
viramita-nija-dharma-dhyāna-pūjādi-yatnam |
katham api sakṛd āttaṁ muktidaṁ prāṇināṁ yat
paramam amṛtam ekaṁ jīvanaṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ me ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.9)“The name of Murāri—
A form of bliss—
That by which the difficulty
Of one’s duties, meditation, ritual worship, and so forth
Is terminated,
That which is a bestower of mukti for living beings
Upon being uttered [even] once by any means,
And which for me is alone
The supreme nectar,
[Supreme] enlivenment,
And [supreme] ornament—
Triumphs!
Triumphs!” - Read on →: jīvan-mukto nāma sva-svarūpākhaṇḍa-brahma-jñānena
jīvan-mukto nāma sva-svarūpākhaṇḍa-brahma-jñānena tad-ajñāna-bādhana-dvārā sva-svarūpākhaṇḍa-brahmaṇi sākṣātkṛte’jñāna-tat-kārya-sañcita-karma-saṁśaya-viparyayādīnām api bādhitatvād akhila-bandha-rahito brahma-niṣṭhaḥ |
(Vedānta-sāra: 213)“A jīvan-mukta [i.e., ‘one who is liberated while living’] is known as one who is fixed in Brahman and free from all bondage on account of ignorance and its effects in the form of accumulated karma, doubt, misapprehension, and so on being negated as a result of direct perception of one’s own essential nature, that is, undivided Brahman, by means of the negation of ignorance of that [i.e., of Brahman] through knowledge of one’s own essential nature, that is, undivided Brahman.”
- Read on →: īhā yasya harer dāsye karmaṇā manasā girā
īhā yasya harer dāsye karmaṇā manasā girā |
nikhilāsv apy avasthāsu jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate ||
(Nāradīya Purāṇa; cited in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.187)“One who has the desire for servitude to Hari in deed, mind, and speech even in all circumstances is called a jīvan-mukta [i.e., one who is liberated while living].”
- Read on →: jīvan-muktiḥ śarīra-dvayānāveśena sthitiḥ
jīvan-muktiḥ śarīra-dvayānāveśena sthitiḥ |
(Durgama-saṅgamanī-ṭīkā on Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 3.1.25)“Jīvan-mukti [i.e., ‘liberation while living’] is existence without absorption in the two bodies [i.e., the gross and subtle bodies in which a jīvātma in saṁsāra is situated].”