Jivanmukta

Now one may ask, why this is all required? Because till we merge with

the Atman or Brahman, Either as a Jivan Mukta we should have done or at the time of departure.

If we are not sure whether we are Jivan Mukta, the other option for us is only at the time of departure from this body.

So for that, the minimum thing which we can start is the yoga.

To harness not only the prana and apana.

Only the obstacles to its recognition need to be removed.

Ramana Maharshi Ramana Maharshi was a Hindu sage, widely regarded by his followers as a Jivanmukta, which is the Sanskrit word for a person who has attained spiritual liberation and self-realization while still alive.

Let me read his words again.

The self is always realized.

And these correspond to what his various source texts call the final goal or the final state of yoga.

So you've got Amanaska, Jivanmukti, Sahaj, Durya, niranjana all these kind of things um and i think that that's kind of giving you a pointer to the different um different schools that he's whose texts he's drawing on but i think he's being slightly disingenuous there i think i said this in my introduction yeah in the within the texts of those specific schools they mean different things you know even to the extent that samadhi in some of his source texts is this kind of

catalytic death-like state of of

catatonic meditation or deep absorption as contrasted with jivan mukti which is you know wandering around the world as a liberated saint you know living like a some kind of yogic sovereign or whatever yeah they're very