The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c10.s2.t4.3
The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c10.s2.t4.3
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c10.s2.t4.3
Truly there are venerable, holy words, which prove how profoundly the Indian was convinced of what he lays before us!—But the condition here described (to which, as the highest goal of existence, humanity will ever return, whatever else man may undertake)—this condition must have been nothing very rare in India, as is proved by the fact that later ages had a technical expression for it, namely jīvan-mukti (liberation during life) and jīvan-mukta (the living liberated), although we do not yet meet with these expressions in Çañkara.