Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: What Kind of Liberation is Liberation While Living? Part 1. Embodied Liberation in Traditional Advaita Vedanta 1. The Development of the Idea of Embodied Liberation before Sankara: The Early Upanisads, the Brahmasutras, Gaudapada, and the Bhagavad-Gita 2. Knowing Brahman While Embodied: Sankara on Jivanmukti 3. Mandana Misra and Sankara's Disciples on Jivanmukti: Suresvara, Sarvajnatman, and Vimuktatman 4. Jivanmukti in Later Scholastic Advaita: Prakasatman, Citsukha, Madhusudana Sarasvati, Prakasananda, Sadananda, and Dharmaraja Part 2. Jivanmukti in "Yogic Advaita" 5. Ramanuja and Samkhya/Yoga on Liberation While Living 6. Yogic Advaita I: Jivanmukti in the Yogavasistha 7. Yogic Advaita II: Liberation While Living in the Jivanmuktiviveka 8. Yogic Advaita III: Jivanmukti in the Pancadasi, the "Minor" Upanisads, and Madhusudana's Gudarthadipika Part 3. Embodied Liberation in Neo-Vedanta: Adaptation and Innovation 9. Neo-Vedanta and the Transformation of Advaitic Jivanmukti 10. A Liberated Being Being Liberated: The Case of Ramana Maharshi 11. Candrasekharendra Sarasvati: Sankaracarya and Jivanmukta? 12. The Liberated Being and Social Service: Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and the Neo-Vedantic JIvanmukta Notes Bibliography Index
Andrew O. Fort is Professor of Asian Religions at Texas Christian University. His previous publications include Living Liberation in Hindu Thought (coedited with Patricia Y. Mumme), also published by SUNY Press and The Self and Its States: A States of Consciousness Doctrine in Advaita Vedanta.
"This book is very strong in its historical treatment of the notion of the jivanmukta. The author clearly establishes the concept to be a dynamic and changing one. He does so by working closely with the central texts of the Advaita tradition and the presentation is enriched by a discussion of recent figures. His textual analysis is rich and detailed." -- Anantanand Rambachan, Saint Olaf College
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