The World & Liberation · Anchored at BG 5.19, BG 2.20.
Freedom Now, or Only After Death?
Can you be liberated while still alive and walking around — jivanmukti — or does release come only when the body falls?
Concepts and schools in this debate
Questions to explore
- Defend jivanmukti (freedom while living), then give the Dvaita objection that full release waits beyond the body.
- How could you tell, from the outside, whether someone is already liberated?
