Liberation While Living (Jīvanmukti)

Jīvanmukti is 'liberation while living': the idea that one can be fully free here and now, before death, while the body continues. The liberated sage still walks, eats, and teaches, but is no longer caught in ignorance or craving — the momentum of past actions simply plays itself out. The notion is prized in Advaita and in Kashmir Shaivism; some theistic schools are more cautious about it.