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Myself." The Jivanmukta is practically one with God as he has overcome the consciousness of his narrow ego and has not the least attachment to his body and ego. "Those....who see Me with their eyes and hear Me with their ears and think Me with their minds, who by every limb make salutation to Me, whose charity and merit are done only for My sake.... whose passion is only the love for God, whose only desire and love are the desire and love of God, who are infatuated by Me,....these, even before death, have already come into My Being." 112 Thus, the Jivanmukta is as good as the fully liberated soul for he is completely free from egoity (ahankara) and attachment, and he is not the least tempted and deluded by the external world. He is firm in God and always remains in God by being one with Him.
1 Jnanes'vari, VIII. 136-139.
2 Ibid. IX 355-365,
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Kabir
Kabir was a medieval saint and he is said to have lived in the 15th and the 16th centuries (from 1440 A.D. to 1518 A D.) being born of a virgin widow, the daughter of a Brahmin but being forsaken by the mother for the fear of social criticism, he was brought up by Niru and Nimă, a weavercouple, who were Mohammedans. Kabir's birth date is accepted as 1440 A.D. by Evelyn Underhill, but it is not accepted by other biographers, some holding it to be 1400 A.D. But anyway, he lived
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