Author: Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati

A Jivanmukta, literally meaning liberated while living, is a person who, in the Vedanta philosophy, has gained complete self-knowledge and self-realisation and attained kaivalya or moksha (enlightenment and liberation), thus is liberated while living and not yet died. The state is the aim of moksha in Vedanta, Yoga and other schools of Hinduism, and it is referred to as Jivanmukti (Liberation or en-lightenment). So, here the life of Sri Sadasiva Bhahman, a Jivanmukta.