Re: Liberation
namaste Tirisilex.
My first thoughts on the question is:
I can understand why sAyujya-mukti--merging with the One Reality, is considered suicidal to ISKCONites and other non-Advaitins. Advaita recognizes only this type of mukti which can be attained here and now.
Although non-Advaitins dread sAyujya-mukti, it is always here and now to stay; and the non-Advaitins do have a peep into it at the peak of their bhakti--devotion (although they may not accept it as such).
Ironically, shrI KRShNa says in the GItA 2.20: "The primeval one is unborn, eternal and permanent." And yet the non-Advaitins would only be content with the 'primeval one' of their jIvas being different from the ParamAtman.
In one sense, however, since Advaita is all-inclusive (that is, of everything in the karma, bhakti and jnAna yoga), and bhakti is an inherent part of it, we may say that the other types of mukti--liberation, are also attained, by a jIvan mukta--liberated while living, when he gives an appearance of going about his worldly life.
For example, when KAnchi ParamAchArya performed his extensive pUjAs and niyama-anuShTAnas with the utmost shraddha--sincerity, he certainly passed through the other types of mukti, although his Self was firmly routed at all times in the sAyujya reality of turIya.
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
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