Adi Shankara · Theology

Liberation While Living

For Shankara, freedom (moksha) is not a reward after death but knowledge that can dawn here and now - producing the jivanmukta, the one ‘liberated while living,’ who acts in the world while knowing the actor was always Brahman.

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You learned that for Shankara liberation (moksha) is realisation of one’s identity with Brahman, attainable in this very life, producing the jivanmukta - liberated while living - whose body continues by the momentum of past action (prarabdha karma) until it falls away. Reconstruct why moksha is knowledge rather than a…

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