Someone asked about the marks of an enlightened person.
In the Chandogya Upanisad there are eight lakshanas (symptoms) of a jivan-mukta, a person who is already liberated even when living in this body.
1. The first symptom of one so liberated is that he is freed from all sinful activity (apahata-papa). As long as one is under the clutches of maya in the material energy, one has to engage in sinful activity. Bhagavad-gita describes such people asdushkrtinaha, which indicates that they are always engaged in sinful activity. One who is liberated in this life does not commit any sinful activities. Sinful activity involves illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling.
2. Another symptom of a liberated person is vijara, which indicates that he is not subject to the miseries of old age. Ie even though the body ages and falls sick, he doesn't relate to this as suffering.
3. Another lakshana is vimatyu. A liberated person prepares himself in such a way that he does not take on any more material bodies, which are destined to die. In other words. he does not do acts that cause his consciousness to fall downwards once again, to repeat cycles of birth and death.
4. Another indication is vishoka, which indicates that he is impervious to material distress and happiness.
5. He is vijighatsa, which indicates that he no longer desires material enjoyment.
6. Such a man is apipata, which means that he has no desire other than to engage in the selfless service of those still in ignorance and suffering.
7. He is satya-kama, which indicates that all his desires are directed to the attainment of and revelling in of the Supreme Truth. He does not want anything else.
8. He is satya-sankalpa. Whatever he desires is fulfilled by the grace of the divine. First of all, he does not desire anything for his material benefit, and secondly if he desires anything at all, he simply desires to serve the Supreme will. That desire is fulfilled by divine grace.
Author : Deeptam
In the Chandogya Upanisad there are eight lakshanas (symptoms) of a jivan-mukta, a person who is already liberated even when living in this body.
1. The first symptom of one so liberated is that he is freed from all sinful activity (apahata-papa). As long as one is under the clutches of maya in the material energy, one has to engage in sinful activity. Bhagavad-gita describes such people asdushkrtinaha, which indicates that they are always engaged in sinful activity. One who is liberated in this life does not commit any sinful activities. Sinful activity involves illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling.
2. Another symptom of a liberated person is vijara, which indicates that he is not subject to the miseries of old age. Ie even though the body ages and falls sick, he doesn't relate to this as suffering.
3. Another lakshana is vimatyu. A liberated person prepares himself in such a way that he does not take on any more material bodies, which are destined to die. In other words. he does not do acts that cause his consciousness to fall downwards once again, to repeat cycles of birth and death.
4. Another indication is vishoka, which indicates that he is impervious to material distress and happiness.
5. He is vijighatsa, which indicates that he no longer desires material enjoyment.
6. Such a man is apipata, which means that he has no desire other than to engage in the selfless service of those still in ignorance and suffering.
7. He is satya-kama, which indicates that all his desires are directed to the attainment of and revelling in of the Supreme Truth. He does not want anything else.
8. He is satya-sankalpa. Whatever he desires is fulfilled by the grace of the divine. First of all, he does not desire anything for his material benefit, and secondly if he desires anything at all, he simply desires to serve the Supreme will. That desire is fulfilled by divine grace.
Author : Deeptam
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