[Advaita-l] How can prANa be Brahman?

[Sujal Upadhyay]

praNAms SrI Chandramouli ji,

Why the final goal has to be jivanmukta and not moksha. Why does it matter
if you get moksha while still in physical body or at the time of death?

A person may have two approaches or wishes
1. This is my last birth
2. This is my last death

btw, just for curiosity, does this discussion related to the thread topic
i.e. How can prANa be Brahman.
I understand that at the end, it is GYAna that leads to moksha, be it any
way.

Hari OM
Sujal



On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 2:07 PM, H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Sri Ravi Kiran Ji,
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> The highest goal in advaita sidhanta and the goal to be sought after by
> every sAdhaka is to be in the state of jivanmukti.
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> Yagnavalkya, the best of jnanis, desires to take to sanyAsa at the end of
> the debate in Janakasabha only for this purpose.
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> In Taittariya Upanishad Brahmananda valli we have the ananda mimamsa which
> mentions श्रोत्रियस्य चाकामहतस्य । (shrotriyasya chAkAmahatasya |).
> श्रोत्रिय (shrotriya ) refers to a jnani and अकामहतः (akAmahataH) refers to
> one practicing VK and MN. At the highest level, the state corresponds to a
> jivanmukta. That is the state to be aimed for.
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> Sri Bhagavatpada in his यतिपञ्चकम् (yatipa~nchakam) states
> कौपीनवन्तःखलुभाग्यवन्तः (kaupInavantaHkhalubhAgyavantaH) (The one with
> just
> a loin cloth is indeed a blessed one)  (we may perhaps add “under a banyan
> tree”)  while referring to a jivanmukta.
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> Swami Sadashiva Brahmendra Saraswati has composed a very beautiful work
> आत्मविद्याविलास (AtmavidyAvilAsa) consisting of just about 63 verses almost
> exclusively devoted to describe the state of a jivanmukta and extolling
> that state. It is really well worth reading. Just beautiful.
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> In short the goal of every advaita sAdhaka should be to be a jivanmukta.
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> Regards
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