Explanation of jeevanmukta

Gregory Goode goode at DPW.COM
Mon Jul 28 11:58:46 CDT 1997


At 10:07 PM 7/23/97 -0400, Chelluri at AOL.COM wrote:
>                                               srim
>Namaskarams!
>
>What I am going to say is baffling but it is true.
>
>There are no such people OR animals called Jeevanmuktas!  Same goes for the
>word Jnaani.   We call them by these words.  They dont say I am a
>Jnanni?Jeevanmukta.

When enlightenment happens, the individual and the sense of do-ership
disappear.  Therefore, there is no one to whom the term Jeevanmukta
applies.  Actions are done, but there is no personal doer thereof.

--Greg Goode



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