This book is about the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment, self-realization, or liberation. It examines the types, degrees, and stages of liberation that are possible, with and without a body.
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This book is about the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment, self-realization, or liberation. It examines the types, degrees, and stages of liberation that are possible, with and without a body.
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Near Fine. 0791427064. Crisp, clean pages with no owners' marks; soft cover shows short, light folds across bottom right front and top left rear corners and a touch of edge chipping at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, xiii, 278 pp., PAPERBACK. Contents: Living liberation in Sankara and classical Advaita: sharing the holy waiting of God / Lance E. Nelson--Liberation in Sankara's thought--Living liberation--Jivanmukti: difficult to justify but necessary for salvation--Sankara's justificatons of living liberation--Is Jivanmukti complete liberation? --Justifications of Jivanmukti in post-Sankara Advaita--Reservations about Jivanmukti in Post-Sankara Advaita--Isvara as a paradigm for living liberation--Even Isvara suffers limitation--Is the Jivanmukti state possible? : Ramanuja's perspective / Kim Skoog--Introduction: Ramanuja's three arguments--Ramanuja's first argument--Ramanuja's second argument--Ramanuja's third argument--Analysis of the first argument: Jivanmukti as self-contradiction--Analysis of the second argument: the Jivanmukti-Videhamukti dispute is verbal in nature--Analysis of the third argument: false analogy in the two-moons analogy--Basis for the Jivanmukti and Videhamukti-only positions--Scriptural basis for Jivanmukti--Empirical evidence for jivanmukti--Doctrinal consideratio (cont. ) Direct knowledge of God and living liberation in the religious thought of Madhva / Daniel P. Sheridan--Madhva in the context of thirteenth-and fourteenth-century Advaita--Bondage and liberation in Madhva's teaching--The practical means to liberation according to Madhva--The direct knowledge of God while living--Living liberation in Samkhya and yoga / Christopher Key Chapple; etc.
