Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00518)

As per the Jivanmukta talk -- here are a few excerpts from Sadananda's
VEDANTASARA.  This work is quoted in the SD and perhaps somewhere else in
HPB's writings.
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217. A man liberated-in-life (jivanmukta) is one who by the knowledge of
the Absolute Brahman, his own Self, has dispelled the ignorance regarding
It and has realized It, and who owing to the destruction of ignorance and
its effects... is free from all bondage and is established in Brahman.

219. Such a liberated man, while he is not in Samadhi, sees actions not
opposed to knowledge taking place under the momentum of past impressions
-- actions that have already begun to bear fruit, which he experiences...
yet he does not consider them as real, for he has already known their
nothingness...

222.  In the case of such a liberated soul, only good desires persist, as
so his habits of eating, moving, etc. which existed before the dawn of
knowledge...

224.  After realization, humility, and other attributes which are steps
to the attainment of knowledge, as also such virtues as non-injury etc.
persist like so many ornaments.
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<> Nicholas Weeks <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
  When the energy of life is released, may I behold clearly Amitabha
  Buddha, surrounded by his hosts of Bodhisattvas.  May my being be filled
  with faith and compassion!     Je Tsong khapa