जीवन्मुक्तिः शरीरद्वयानावेशेन स्थितिः ।
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].”