Liberation
Mukti is the goal of existence; ordinary mukti (videha mukti) is gained after death or from the state of nirvana; videh mukti is gained before death and from the state of nirvikalpa, where the soul does not regain awareness of the world; jivanmukti is gained during life by one who does regain worldly consciousness without losing his state of God realization; and Param mukti is the same state of consciousness as jivanmukti but the Param mukta has the authority and the duty to act for the benefit of all.
One who meets any soul who has gained realization in the body gains spiritual benefit. Even the burial place of such a realized individual is a source of spiritual power and grace; e.g., in the west, Assisi, and the Basilica di San Marco (St. Mark's Basilica) in Venice, Italy. For this reason it is of spiritual importance to distinguish those who gain realization in the body from those who gain realization after death, because those who gain realization in the body, and even their corpses, are sources of spiritual benefit to all who come in contact with them.
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