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Martin Gansten • May 8, 2002 


Ramanuja rejects the concept of embodied liberation as a contradiction in
terms, since liberation in the full sense means the end of all karman, and
thereby of all contact with gross and subtle physical bodies. The
attainment of actual omniscience, etc, does not take place while the body
remains. However, if by 'liberation' only self-realization is meant, then
Ramanuja does not deny its possibility in the embodied state, and
occasionally he does employ the word in this sense himself, as in
Gitabhashya 6.3: yavad atmavalokanarupamokshapraptis tavat karma karyam
'until one attains liberation in the form of self-realization, he should
perform action'.

Ramanuja Dasa,
MG





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