Author: Fort, Andrew O.; & Mumme, Patricia Y.; editors:
Title: Living Liberation in Hindu Thought
Description: Albany [NY], State University of New York, 1996. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, xiii,278 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Living liberation in Sankara and classical Advaita : sharing the holy waiting of God / Lance E. Nelson -- Liberation in Sankara’s thought --Living liberation -- Jivanmukti: difficult to justify but necessary for salvation -- Sankara’s justificatons of living liberation -- Is Jivanmukti complete liberation? -- Justifications of Jivanmukti in post-Sankara Advaita -- Reservations about Jivanmukti in Post-Sankara Advaita -- Isvara as a paradigm for living liberation -- Even Isvara suffers limitation -- Is the Jivanmukti state possible?: Ramanuja’s perspective / Kim Skoog -- Introduction: Ramanuja’s three arguments -- Ramanuja’s first argument -- Ramanuja’s second argument -- Ramanuja’s third argument -- Analysis of the first argument: Jivanmukti as self-contradiction -- Analysis of the second argument: the Jivanmukti-Videhamukti dispute is verbal in nature -- Analysis of the third argument: false analogy in the two-moons analogy -- Basis for the Jivanmukti and Videhamukti-only positions -- Scriptural basis for Jivanmukti -- Empirical evidence for jivanmukti -- Doctrinal consideratio (cont.) Direct knowledge of God and living liberation in the religious thought of Madhva / Daniel P. Sheridan -- Madhva in the context of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Advaita -- Bondage and liberation in Madhva’s teaching -- The practical means to liberation according to Madhva -- The direct knowledge of God while living -- Living liberation in Samkhya and yoga / Christopher Key Chapple; etc.

Keywords: Comparative Religion, Hinduism, Liberation, Moksa, Hindu Doctrines, India South Asia, Perfection, Theology, Jivanmukti