Brahma jnani and his prarabdha

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Hari Om

Certainly the case with Jivan muktah is that he is still with prArabdha. The

Jivan muktah after realization sees everything in the empirical realms as

Atman alone. 'sarvam Atmaiva bhUth kena kam pasyet' iti. In the samasti

abhiprAya the prArabdha persists though. Jivan Muktah is one who is blessed

and is of fulfilled duties 'krt krtyavAn' ; a state of being liberated while

alive, waits for the time to shed the body - says Shrti ' Jivan muktva

padam tyaktva svadehe kAlasAtkrte'. It is very clear here that the Shrti

insists that the Muktah waits with the body which is the product of his own

prArabsha that the Muktah sees not. As long as the previously commenced

karma remains unspent the muktah functions like a snake with the slough on.

He who has attained liberation while living though possessed with body,

wanders about homeless like the moon, adds Shrti. 'prArabdha karma paryantam

ahinirmokavad vyavaharati candramac carate dehi sa muktas cAniketanah'. To

me the very term Jivan mukti is an oxymoron – where mukti is attached with

Jivatva , only with the latter prArabdha !

With Narayana Smrthi,

--

Antharyami

 

 

 

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advaitin , Antharyami <sathvatha wrote:

 

Jivan Muktah is one who is blessed

> and is of fulfilled duties 'krt krtyavAn' ; a state of being

liberated while

> alive, waits for the time to shed the body - says Shrti ' Jivan

muktva

> padam tyaktva svadehe kAlasAtkrte'. It is very clear here that the

Shrti

> insists that the Muktah waits with the body which is the product

of his own

> prArabsha that the Muktah sees not.

 

Dear antaryAmi (what is your name?),

 

Are your referring to the following passage of the maha upanishad?

 

II-63-69. He gives up the state of Jivanmukta when this body is

consigned to time (death) and enters the state of Adehamukta

(liberated without body), like wind which does not move.

 

Surce:http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/maha_upanishad.htm

 

Warm Regards,

 

Br. Viayaka.