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語源

Borrowed from Sanskrit परमुक्त (para-mukti, “supremely free”)

名詞

paramukta (複数形 paramuktas)

1. (Hinduism) jivanmukta
2. (Hinduism) supremely liberated being; being liberated beyond the state of a jivanmukta

引用

• 1936, The cultural heritage of India, Sri Ramakrishna Centenary Committee, page 310

  But when the Siddha changes from jivanmukta into a paramukta, a veritable transformation supervenes, the transubstantiated body known as the pranava-tanu or […]

• 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

  The PARAMUKTA therefore seldom returns to a physical body; if he does, he is an avatar, a divinely appointed medium of supernal blessings on the world.

• 1972, N. Murugesa Mudaliar (translator), Kumāratēvar, Chockalinga Sivaprakasa, Path of pure consciousness, Suddha sādhakam of Sri Kumara Deva, Sri Kumara Devar Mutt, page 53

  That is to say the body has become the mahat tattva which is imperishable and so is non-corporeal. This is what Suddha Sadhakam states when it says that Paramukta does not leave his body behind susceptible to touch and sight.

• 1976, Cāntaliṅka, Citampara Aṭikaḷ, Pathway to sahaja nistai: Avirodha unthiyar of Sri Santhalinga Swami, Perur Virasaiva Adheenam, page 76

  A further consequence, if any one had adhered to some other religion and left it it and came over to our religion, we proclaim him as a paramukta (fully liberated), but if one who was an adherent of our religion is in friendly fellowship with another religionist, we call him as a renegade, a worst sinner […]

• 1984, Yogananda, Self-realization, Self-Realization Fellowship, volumes 56-57, page 22

  In the next higher stage, one is called a paramukta or siddha—a soul who has freed himself completely from physical, astral, and causal karma. […] If a paramukta returns to a physical body, he is an avatara or avatar.