Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Living liberation in Vedanta traditions: 1. Living liberation in Sankara and classical Advaita: sharing the Holy waiting of God/Lance E. Nelson. 2. Is the Jivanmukti state possible? Ramanuja’s perspective/Kim Skoog. 3. Direct knowledge of God and living liberation in the religious thought of Madhva/Daniel P. Sheridan. II. Yoga and renunciation in living liberation: 4. Living liberation in Samkhya and Yoga/Christopher Key Chapple. 5. Liberation while living in the Jivanmuktiviveka: Vidyaranya’s "Yogic Advaita"/Andrew O. Fort. 6. Modes of perfected living in the Mahabharata and the Puranas: the different faces of Suka the renouncer/C. Mackenzie Brown. III. Living liberation in Saiva traditions: 7. Aspects of Jivanmukti in the Tantric Saivism of Kashmir/Paul E. Muller-Ortega. 8. Living liberation in Saiva Siddhanta/S.J. Chacko Valiaveetil. Conclusion: living liberation in comparative perspective/Patricia Y. Mumme. Index.
"This book is about the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment, self-realization, liberation, or Jivanmukti. It examines the types, degrees, and stages of liberation that are possible, with and without a body