Jiva Mukti Viveka- Jivana Mukti Prakarana Artha Prakashikai: Tamil (An Old and Rare Book)

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Foreword The Jivanmuktiviveka of Vidyarapya is a classical work on Jivanmukti or 'liberation while living. It is one of the basic tenets of Advaita that one can attain liberation even when one is living. Bondage is due to avidya which produces Karmic residues which, in turn, produce vasana-s and experiences. When avidya is removed through real knowledge, one no longer acts with a purpose. Actually there is no liberation, but only the realization that there has been no bondage at all, and that the self is always free. But from the lower standpoint (vyavahārika) he is a samnyasin continuing to act-to eat, to sleep and to move around. Jivanmukti is a state in which the sense organs, mind and the vital breaths operate only formally; this is established by the experience of saints and mystics throughout the ages. The Bhaga vadgita refers to the jivanmuk ta as sthitaprajna.

There is no backsliding from liberation. When once the realization about one's identity with Brahman is experienced, there is no possibility of losing that realization. Samkara considered the highest stage of Samnyasa as identical with jivanmukti.

The author of the Jivanmuktiviveka was a samnyasin, a realized jivanmukta. He divides samny asa into two, that of the seeker and that of the knower; the former is a preliminary stage for the latter. Acquisition of occult powers does not help in liberation or complete freedom and bliss.

The text is in five chapters. The first explains the two types of renunciation and the nature of jivanmukti, as distinct from videhamukti (liberation through the release of the body.) The second chapter deals with the means for jivanmukti, the removal of latent desire (vāsanā). The next path to liberation is the dissolution of the mind, which is discussed in the third chapter. The next chapter deals with the aim of jivanmukti. The last chapter deals with the true path of renunciation and explains the Paramahamsopaniṣad.

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