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103. 􏰀వనుమ్కత్ి (Jeevanmukti)
A stage where one feels liberated from the shackles of
body and mind and starts serving others.
A person who is a jeevanmukta will not serve. This concept of jeevanmukta is available only in advaita. It is not availabe in visistadvaita. A person who is a mukta does not have any responsibility, and a person with no responsibility will not work. So, Ramanuja refused to accept jeevamukta as a condition, he said videhamukti only. If you want to be liberated, you are liberated only after the body. Till your body is there, you better serve others. No exemptions are given, till you are there you better serve. Service is the means. When asked what the end was, he said that is the end. He refused to accept jeevanmukta as a goal towards which you can go. It is a very obstinate stand of Ramanuja. I think very correct also otherwise society has no meaning. If every body seeks of jeevanmukti and everybody comes to a state of standstill, the whole world will collapse. That is why advaita is impossible to practice, impractical.
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