This luminosity that manifests here as liberation in life is nothing other than the absolute dissolution of latent impressions: only this is what is called mokṣa.

The term jīvanmukti —liberation while the body persists— challenges the ontological dualities of Western thought. It is not a post-mortem state nor a transcendence that abandons the earthly. Rather, it is a transmutation of the very experience of the body and the world. Vāsiṣṭha establishes here a radical operative criterion: the only genuine measure of freedom is the total destruction of vāsanās. Intellectual understanding nor ecstatic experiences are insufficient; mokṣa is a complete requalification of the subliminal structure that generates the illusion of a separate subject. The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā alludes to this same process when speaking of manonāśa: not the annihilation of the mind but its conscious integration into the unified field of awareness.