The person whose concern for the world has ceased, the person who is devoid of kalā–s though endowed with them and the person who is devoid of mind though endowed with mind, is qualified to be called a person who is liberated while being alive.
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1) A person is said to be having sixteen aspects (kalā–s), the vital airs, faith, the five elements, the sense organs etc., which are described in the Prasnopanishad (6–4). These continue to exist in a realised person but he has no identification with them because his mind is absorbed in Brahman (the mental modification which has assumed the nature of Brahman). Hence he is called the person devoid of kalā–s. 2) He is ‘devoid of mind’ because his mind has no emotional contact with external objects (Jagadguru).