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.”